natashavita@earthlink.net wrote:
>
> Michael S. Lorrey wrote on Mon, 28 Aug 2000 13:50:35 -0400
>
> >Ah, yes, like the old Vogon favorite, "Toss a hitcher out into
> space" competition. (snip)
>
> Coming up with a new sport would obviously require combining
> criteria that have not in the past been combined, in environments
> not encountered, with equipment not yet devised.<
>
> I've been following the thread and was pleased when James Rogers
> suggested cotton. (It breaths.)
>
> But, I also started thinking about the concept of an extended
> hike. I tried to remember the many hikes I have taken - through
> the sands of a dormant volcano, the Navajo Indian Reservation,
> Monument Valley, combined with trekking the Amazon Jungle and
> sailing the seas for several months -- they all were adventuresome
> and challenging, but it was the symbiotic efforts of the many
> diverse treks that have given me the greatest satisfaction.
>
> A new sport that excites me (in this body and at this time)is
> a meta-athlon (metathlon) of diverse terrain by multifaceted,
> fluid movements combining walking, riding, climbing, skiing,
> sailing, swimming, surfing, rollerblading, scatbording, parachuting,
> flying, and virtually simulated performance.
Several years ago I designed a concept VR Fitness device to allow real exercise
in many different VR environments. Of course, it would have been frightfully
expensive.
Other sports I'd go for:
human powered submarine races
stratospheric ramjet hangliding
solar sail racing
Jovian Chicken (who can go deeper before boosting out).
bicycle powered ion drive races.... ;)
Mike
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