School project... thrill seekers/extreme sports

[foppert]

Hello all, i am doing a school project on the culture of thrill seekers (i consider extreme sports under that category). As a part of the project i am supposed to interview some members of the culture so where better than here? So to kick things off here go a few questions... I will ask more as i think of them

1. What keeps you guys doing what some consider a dangerous activity?

2. What is the strangest/funniest comment that a bystander has said?

3. Do you have any other activities/extreme sports that you do?

4. What was the most frightening thing that you have done/ happened to you on bocks?

5. What is the worst injury that you have endured? from bocks or other extreme sports?

[Mr Frank]

1. It's unbelievable fun. I'm up in the air even before I start bouncing and I feel a little superhuman.  That's just about all there is to it.

2. One time I had a run-in with a midget.  She didn't have anything very funny to say, but she was seriously interested.

3. I bike everywhere I go, but I don't do much extreme.  I do snowboard and ski, and I've always wanted to do parkour, but it's hard and I have no terrain near my house.

4. Critical velocity is scary as hell.  If you're moving fast enough on a downward slope, you gain height with each stride instead of losing it.  Very hard to get out of.  I've never gone completely out of control, but the idea of falling while barreling down a hill five feet in the air, or maybe hitting something, scares the poop outta me.

5. I nearly knocked myself out THROUGH a skateboarding helmet once.  I was pretty new and running faster than I should have been while I was nearly exhaustion (You know how most skiing fatalities occur in the afternoon when everyone's tired), and I tripped.  Next thing I remember, my head was bouncing back up from the pavement.  I figure I went down sideways, crunched my shoulder (still have a scar from abrasion against the inside of my T-shirt so I presume there was a great deal of pressure), and my head had a whip effect as it hit the pavement.  I remember thinking, as I looked around, "OK, I'm rebooting.  My personality should come back sometime soon.  Oh, that's who I am, good to know.  Crap my shoulder hurts!"  I walked it off and never saw a doctor, but it still scared me off my bocks until my shoulder started working again.

[XarnuSonci]

1. What keeps you guys doing what some consider a dangerous activity?
I want to fly, I tell people all the time, If there's an activity out there, that lets me go fast and get high off the ground, i'll try it.  Being on a level playing field is boring, get me up in the air and i'm happy.  If there's no potential for danger there's no fun.  I can't do anything normally, i jump down stairs and over railings all the time, just cause it makes walking from A to B more interesting.

2. What is the strangest/funniest comment that a bystander has said?
idk

3. Do you have any other activities/extreme sports that you do?
um.. this list is pretty long.  Mountian biking, agressive inline skating, skateboarding, bmx, wake boarding, snow boarding, trapoline, free running, etc, you name it, i've prolly tried it, and if i haven't its prolly on the list of ones i want to do.

4. What was the most frightening thing that you have done/ happened to you on bocks?
first back flip attempt by far, scarriest thing i've ever done on bocks.
tripping while running full speed, and falling backwards are up there on the scarry scale too

5. What is the worst injury that you have endured? from bocks or other extreme sports?
bocks, some scrapes
other sports, broken arm, sprained ankle, cuts, scrapes, burises

[zipp]

1. What keeps you guys doing what some consider a dangerous activity?
I have only just started bocking, but it is the same reason as any other sport. Your personal progression in the sport, and the feeling you get from pushing yourself to learn, and the rush you get when you land or learn a new trick or move. Once competent and confident at a particular trick, the looks and comments of from joe public, are a different kinda buzz.

2. What is the strangest/funniest comment that a bystander has said?
What's wrong with your legs?

3. Do you have any other activities/extreme sports that you do?
I don't do anything regually except MTB. I used to Skateboard for 12yrs, and we Snowboard/Ski every couple of years. i have tried most EX activitys, Carting, Scuba diving, Water skiing, Surfing, Body boarding, any theme park ride, Bungee Jumping, Tandom Skydive. The senses that each of the activitys stimulate, let you know that you are alive....

4. What was the most frightening thing that you have done/ happened to you on bocks?
Losing control, and falling are both sketchy on bocks. It is very difficult to counterbalance the weight and length of the bocks when falling. You can't control the fall in the usual way, the bocks tend to dictate how it will happen.

5. What is the worst injury that you have endured? from bocks or other extreme sports?
Bocks= Dislocated finger
MTB= gravel rash (nasty and sore)
Sk8= sprained ankles/wrists, 24hr concussion. many more that have been long forgoten.

Good luck with the school project foppert. It is always good when you can combine your interests with your studies.

[Aleksander]

1. What keeps you guys doing what some consider a dangerous activity?
Well. ever since i started to walk as a little kid, i have always loved trampolines... and once i saw the powerisers i knew i had to get them. im pretty new to this sport and dont have the confidence to do any tricks jet but in time il get some done. i also get adrenaline rush from using the stilts... i used to hate running, but the stilts have given running a whole new meaning! and as i say to me mates, most people have trampolines in their backyard, while i have just strapped the trampoline on to my feet and bring it with me everywhere i go.

2. What is the strangest/funniest comment that a bystander has said?
"how do you put them on?" ... i mean come on... its pretty self explanatory how to put them on innit?

3. Do you have any other activities/extreme sports that you do?
always liked hights and climbing stuff... i guess mountainclimbing counts here. i have also done some capoeira and rollerblades.

4. What was the most frightening thing that you have done/ happened to you on bocks?
hmmm.. havent had anything really frightening happen to me yet... it is cinda scary when i get the feeling im gonna fall backwards tho..

5. What is the worst injury that you have endured? from bocks or other extreme sports?
nothing on bocks, but i did get pretty hurt from falling on rollerblades once.. was goin really fast and some rock or summat jammed one of the wheels, and the result was me bounsing and tumbeling for like 15-20 meters before finally coming to a stop. my helmet splitting in half and no skin left on elbow and knee... even had people running up to me to see if i had survived the fall, i hear it was brutal. the doc had me "in bed" for a week becouse my body had too much infection in it.

[hazelnut]

1.It is the best sport and funnest i hav eva done

2.Where do the batteries go?

3.occasional rock-climbing but not a lot

4.Do a vault that with about a 7 foot drop the other end

5.Ummmmmm the worst injury i hav eva had on my bocks is probly a cut on my hand from fallin ova but thats nt bad...nvr broken a bone or anythin tho

[scott]

hey

1. What keeps you guys doing what some consider a dangerous activity?
awesome fun, feels good when you set yourself a goal and you achieve it(tricks/flips),

2. What is the strangest/funniest comment that a bystander has said?
does it hurt when you fall?

3. Do you have any other activities/extreme sports that you do?
not yet :p

4. What was the most frightening thing that you have done/ happened to you on bocks?
was running and tripped on a crack in the paths and crashed :$

5. What is the worst injury that you have endured? from bocks or other extreme sports?

^^ when i fell i grazed my shoulder and elbow and my hip, nothing bad just cuts

hope this helps with your school project

Scott

[Zan]

1. What keeps you guys doing what some consider a dangerous activity?
We'll, i want to be up in the air, if feels great, like you can just soar away. Also it sets me apart from almost everyone else, and that is just what i like to do.

2. What is the strangest/funniest comment that a bystander has said?
"Yo, im bout to go paint ma moms car in those"

3. Do you have any other activities/extreme sports that you do?
Well, no extreme sports, but im like most teens, go to school, im part of the drama club, we put on plays, play videogames, ride my boring bike, you know, normal stuff.

4. What was the most frightening thing that you have done/ happened to you on bocks?
Tripping while running, hands down.

5. What is the worst injury that you have endured? from bocks or other extreme sports?
nothing really past some burns i got from riding on pegs. nothing too major.

[Jodz]

1. What keeps you guys doing what some consider a dangerous activity?
The feeling you get once you learn something new and can do it well its great fun and gives you an amazing sence of freedom.

2. What is the strangest/funniest comment that a bystander has said? most probably when old people come up to you and ask if they can have a go

3. Do you have any other activities/extreme sports that you do?
nah not really just this

4. What was the most frightening thing that you have done/ happened to you on bocks?
well was bouncing down the hill next to a main road and kinda lost my balance and started heading for the road just as a buss was coming kinda scary :0

5. What is the worst injury that you have endured? from bocks or other extreme sports?
Urm well i kinda face planted the floor and grazed myself up a bit on my elbows and hip was badly buised and scratched up.


hope this helps

jodz xxx

[PirateChris]

1. I dont really see it as dangerous, theres alot worse things to be doing.

2. Ive never really had any strange/weird comments most people just want to know what they do, where you can get them ect.

3. I do kite boarding/surfing.

4. Nothing to bad just simply fell and broke my wrist.

5. Same as above, but according to the doctor it hasnt healed properly so it needs to be surgicaly broken and refixed...joy.

[Chocl8]

1. What keeps you guys doing what some consider a dangerous activity? - I love the attention 

2. What is the strangest/funniest comment that a bystander has said? "I thought they didn't exist!"

3. Do you have any other activities/extreme sports that you do? "Freestyle/off piste skiing, lots of other sport (Hockey, Rugby, Athletics, Cricket, Football etc.)

4. What was the most frightening thing that you have done/ happened to you on bocks? flippedlanded on matt, got catapulted on to hard floor.

5. What is the worst injury that you have endured? from bocks or other extreme sports? snapped 2 ligaments in knee playing rugby. On bocks, sprained wrist/cuts/bruises

[FurryNipples]

1. What keeps you guys doing what some consider a dangerous activity?

Fun, adrenaline, exercise.

2. What is the strangest/funniest comment that a bystander has said?

Haven't really done it in public much, but most of what I hear is 'do a flip!'.

3. Do you have any other activities/extreme sports that you do?

Yes, lots. Downhill mountain biking, bmx, snowboarding, skiing, pier/cliff jumping, bigwheeling, shooting(does that count as extreme) and a bunch of other random stuff.

4. What was the most frightening thing that you have done/ happened to you on bocks?

Er, finding myself running down a hill on my first time out on them. It stung a bit heh. Oh also kneeing myself in the face after a failed front summie. I got a black eye from that one.

5. What is the worst injury that you have endured? from bocks or other extreme sports?

Black eye from bocks (not been doing it long). On the bike I once managed to jump throat first into a metal cable. That knocked me out cold, cut my neck open and knocked my top two vertebrae out of place slightly (C1 and C2?). That was a fun few days. Skiing I've had some pretty big bails while doing some cliffs and learning to backflip, but I've been pretty lucky thus far. Cuts, grazes and bruises don't count as injuries.

I always wear correct protection and stuff and I weigh up risks before attempting something. I like to see myself as more of a calculated idiot, rather than just an idiot. []

Cheers.

[Dark Knight]

1. What keeps you guys doing what some consider a dangerous activity?
I don't consider it dangerous ! It's great fun

2. What is the strangest/funniest comment that a bystander has said?
An old lady come up and said " I thought they where computer graphics for an add didn't know they where really real ! "

3. Do you have any other activities/extreme sports that you do?
I own a solo ( stand-up ) jet-ski.

4. What was the most frightening thing that you have done/ happened to you on bocks?
A couple of dogs rushed over a field barking at me ! But they got closer stopped barking and ran back again !?

5. What is the worst injury that you have endured? from bocks or other extreme sports?
Nothing just my pride when I fall over ?

[Sprog]

1. What keeps you guys doing what some consider a dangerous activity?
There is always something new to learn, the fantastic community and group of friends I have gained through the sport, and the fact that if you gave up when you fall down, you'd never get anywhere in life.

2. What is the strangest/funniest comment that a bystander has said?
"I've seen them on TV! They're computer... generated?"

3. Do you have any other activities/extreme sports that you do?
Rock Climbing. Mountain Biking.

4. What was the most frightening thing that you have done/ happened to you on bocks?
See below

5. What is the worst injury that you have endured? from bocks or other extreme sports?
Probably running at 22mph through mud and hyperextending my knee, nicely grinding my shoulder, spraining my wrist and eating some serious tarmac

[short steve]

1. What keeps you guys doing what some consider a dangerous activity?

FUN, i love jumping high, and more FUN

2. What is the strangest/funniest comment that a bystander has said?

"Are they fun?" If they dont class flying though the air as fun i dont know what they class as fun

3. Do you have any other activities/extreme sports that you do?

well i dont class trampolineing as extreme but i do a bit of free running and hope to do other extreme sports.

4. What was the most frightening thing that you have done/ happened to you on bocks?

well nothing has REALLY frightend me but the most scary thing was when my bro dared me to do dizzy bocking. (basically hop on 1 leg roung in a circle and
 try and walk) i didnt get very far

5. What is the worst injury that you have endured? from bocks or other extreme sports?

Well actually nothing. only a grazed elbow which isnt an injury.