Shock Horror, sports other than cycling!

Feltup

edhornby wrote:

another diver here ! wrecks are great cos you can decide how far you want to go into them (if at all) and it's a ready made reef as well, never really wanted to do caves though - that picture of the floridian cave is a million miles away from UK cavediving !

anyone want to try freediving? all you need is your lungs and fins

I was tempted once to go on a course at HMS Dolphin which is a cylindrical tower down nr Portsmouth. The tower is 30m high I think and filled with water. They teach submarine escape drills there but also used to do Free diving courses. The deepest I have dared go was 11-12m and that felt a long way down!

spen666

I used to be an accompolished football hooligan, but it seems to have died out in popularity these days

Chewy Cheeks

spen666 wrote:

I used to be an accompolished football hooligan, but it seems to have died out in popularity these days

Spen

from your previous posts and this description you sound just like the viz character "Raffles gentleman thug".

spen666

Chewy Cheeks wrote:

spen666 wrote:

I used to be an accompolished football hooligan, but it seems to have died out in popularity these days

Spen

from your previous posts and this description you sound just like the viz character "Raffles gentleman thug".

That was me, in my top hat and tails on the terraces.

"I say Jeeves, cut that rotters throat he has a chelsea shirt on"

Roastie

None of the sports listed - not much of a fan of ball sports.

Until recently my No 1 sport was driving in the (SA) National Production Cars category along with some club level hatchback racing and a few rallies and rally sprints.

More recently I've been doing road running and cross country - all was going well until work meant little training but continued competition led to a knee injury that is only just coming right. I'll probably get back into XC in the winter time.

As for motor racing - at the moment I'm looking to return to motorsport, but this time as a "team manager"...

Eau Rouge

Feltup wrote:

edhornby wrote:

another diver here ! wrecks are great cos you can decide how far you want to go into them (if at all) and it's a ready made reef as well, never really wanted to do caves though - that picture of the floridian cave is a million miles away from UK cavediving !

anyone want to try freediving? all you need is your lungs and fins

I was tempted once to go on a course at HMS Dolphin which is a cylindrical tower down nr Portsmouth. The tower is 30m high I think and filled with water. They teach submarine escape drills there but also used to do Free diving courses. The deepest I have dared go was 11-12m and that felt a long way down!

I know someone who did that course. He loved it, and got down to about 20 meters. He said that after a certain depth, you actually start sinking, something to do with air volumes and pressures.

Chewy Cheeks

spen666 wrote:

Chewy Cheeks wrote:

spen666 wrote:

I used to be an accompolished football hooligan, but it seems to have died out in popularity these days

Spen

from your previous posts and this description you sound just like the viz character "Raffles gentleman thug".

That was me, in my top hat and tails on the terraces.

"I say Jeeves, cut that rotters throat he has a chelsea shirt on"

I thought his mates were Bunny, Dave the 6th Earl of Bermondsey and Clarence the 3rd Earl of Burberry. I am saying this because the names are so funny - no pedantry hereabouts

Feltup

Eau Rouge wrote:

Feltup wrote:

edhornby wrote:

another diver here ! wrecks are great cos you can decide how far you want to go into them (if at all) and it's a ready made reef as well, never really wanted to do caves though - that picture of the floridian cave is a million miles away from UK cavediving !

anyone want to try freediving? all you need is your lungs and fins

I was tempted once to go on a course at HMS Dolphin which is a cylindrical tower down nr Portsmouth. The tower is 30m high I think and filled with water. They teach submarine escape drills there but also used to do Free diving courses. The deepest I have dared go was 11-12m and that felt a long way down!

I know someone who did that course. He loved it, and got down to about 20 meters. He said that after a certain depth, you actually start sinking, something to do with air volumes and pressures.

Yeah I saw a programme on it and they pulled themselves down a ladder for about 10-15m I would guess then pushed downwards off the bottom rung and sank to the bottom. Must be a scary sensation!

oscarbudgie

Refreshing lack of interest in sports which involve hitting or catching spherical objects - I admit I used to struggle with that whole hand - eye co-ordination emphasis you get with a lot of sports at school. Running was just too dull and seemed to attract oddballs so cycling it was.

always_tyred

oscarbudgie wrote:

Refreshing lack of interest in sports which involve hitting or catching spherical objects - I admit I used to struggle with that whole hand - eye co-ordination emphasis you get with a lot of sports at school. Running was just too dull and seemed to attract oddballs so cycling it was.

Cycling doesn't attract oddballs?

oscarbudgie

Always Tyred wrote:

oscarbudgie wrote:

Refreshing lack of interest in sports which involve hitting or catching spherical objects - I admit I used to struggle with that whole hand - eye co-ordination emphasis you get with a lot of sports at school. Running was just too dull and seemed to attract oddballs so cycling it was.

Cycling doesn't attract oddballs?

Obviously - but it was the runners who you could imagine going postal one day

girv73

Sports? Not really. I played a bit of rugby (because I had to) and cricket (because I liked it) at school and did a few years of martial arts 10+ years ago, but it's always been cycling. Unless they let me play at F1.

always_tyred

girv73 wrote:

Unless they let me play at F1.

No, we are talking about sports, Girv73.

edhornby

Feltup wrote:

Eau Rouge wrote:

Feltup wrote:

edhornby wrote:

another diver here ! wrecks are great cos you can decide how far you want to go into them (if at all) and it's a ready made reef as well, never really wanted to do caves though - that picture of the floridian cave is a million miles away from UK cavediving !

anyone want to try freediving? all you need is your lungs and fins

I was tempted once to go on a course at HMS Dolphin which is a cylindrical tower down nr Portsmouth. The tower is 30m high I think and filled with water. They teach submarine escape drills there but also used to do Free diving courses. The deepest I have dared go was 11-12m and that felt a long way down!

I know someone who did that course. He loved it, and got down to about 20 meters. He said that after a certain depth, you actually start sinking, something to do with air volumes and pressures.

Yeah I saw a programme on it and they pulled themselves down a ladder for about 10-15m I would guess then pushed downwards off the bottom rung and sank to the bottom. Must be a scary sensation!

it's scary at first so you build up with small depths obvously, but at about 15m the pressure compresses your lungs enough to make you neutrally buoyant and from then on you sink. you use a line with a weight at the bottom, grab it, turn round and fin back up. the sensation of getting back to the surface is just brilliant !