The 5 Most Extreme Sports Humans Have Actually Done

Published March 26, 2012

Updated January 18, 2017

The World’s Most Extreme Sports: Crocodile Bungee Jumping

This bungee jumping is not for the faint of heart. As the name suggests, it involves jumping headfirst into crocodile infested waters and is supposedly popular in Australia.

Earlier this year, a viral video featured a young Australian woman falling into the crocodile infested waters of Zambezi River while attempting a jump. Fortunately, she survived:

Limbo Skating

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k68lX7IUhMs

Wildly popular in India, limbo skating is the extreme sport defined by roller-skating underneath cars. Needless to say, the sport requires a lot of flexibility.

The Guinness World Record for the longest limbo skating distance currently sets at 126 feet 11 inches, and was achieved by Rohan Ajit Kokane last February.

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Savannah Cox holds a Master's in International Affairs from The New School as well as a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and now serves as an Assistant Professor at the University of Sheffield. Her work as a writer has also appeared on DNAinfo.

Bhatt, Mamta. "The World’s Five Most Extreme Sports." AllThatsInteresting.com, March 26, 2012, https://allthatsinteresting.com/most-extreme-sports. Accessed April 23, 2024.