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    Quote Originally Posted by Garbowski View Post
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    Seattle people love thier fad games- that trampoline bouncy ball thing (spikeball) is big, and there is some throw wooden blocks at other wooden blocks one.
    Kübb

    Fun beach game.
    That and fee range bocce is our go to beer and sand activity

    Better than spikeball. That game sucks almost as much as can golf.
    Kill all the telemarkers
    But they’ll put us in jail if we kill all the telemarkers
    Telemarketers! Kill the telemarketers!
    Oh we can do that. We don’t even need a reason

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    Quote Originally Posted by Core Shot View Post
    Kübb

    Fun beach game.
    That and fee range bocce is our go to beer and sand activity

    Better than spikeball. That game sucks almost as much as can golf.
    Speaking of beach games, Kadima (paddle ball) still gets play. But very few people play it competitively. The people you do see playing it are usually just trying to maintain a volley.
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    Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!

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    Quote Originally Posted by dunfree View Post
    The axe tossing places
    Came here to post that. WTF.

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    Bring back the milk crate challenges.
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    A lot of water sports seem to get popular and then fade away:
    Windsurfing
    Kayaking
    Kite surfing
    SUP

    Now it's all about wingsurfing and wingfoiling I guess.

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    Yeah, add:

    Wake surfing
    Wake boarding

    So much $ /minute

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    Wakeboarding is also brutal on the body. Every single pro is basically rocking those bionic knee braces by age 20.

    Wake surfing though is pretty easy and it’s hard to not enjoy it.

    No argument from me on the cost. Bring the credit card you’re going to need it.

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    Toughmudder and all the other related challenge events.

    SUP on a lake is pretty meh but its great for the core. Try it on a river and get back to me on how easy and boring.
    I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Name Redacted View Post
    Pebble wrestling has always been dumb. Great way to stay in shape and fun to do, but when people start competing at it, that's where you lose me.
    Great way to break an ankle, even with the huge ground pads they pack around these days. I'd rather be roped up 1,000 feet off the ground than unroped 10 feet up with a bunch of angular sharks lurking below. The actual movement on rock is fun of course.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bunion 2020 View Post
    Toughmudder and all the other related challenge events.

    SUP on a lake is pretty meh but its great for the core. Try it on a river and get back to me on how easy and boring.
    I enjoy SUP because it is exactly the opposite of a "Sport" to me. It is a simple way to get out to the middle of the lake and away from people, maybe check out some wildlife, and catch a cool buzz (don't even need the tasty waves). I usually have no desire to race anyone, or get any kind of workout whatsoever, although sometimes I paddle fast and work on technique, mainly to get further away from folks faster. And the times I've taken it on the river were kinda fun, but it feels like telemarking, which is to say, needlessly making a fun activity harder than it needs to be by handicapping yourself with improper equipment, usually as an (unsuccessful) ploy to impress members of the opposite sex.

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    Rec Sports Fads of the New Millenium.

    Quote Originally Posted by Name Redacted View Post
    I enjoy [snip] needlessly making a fun activity harder than it needs to be by handicapping yourself with improper equipment, usually as an (unsuccessful) ploy to impress members of the opposite sex.
    Haha, there it is

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    Quote Originally Posted by ::: ::: View Post
    Haha, there it is
    SUP on flat water = XC skiing
    SUP on moving water = telemarking
    amiright or amiright?

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    the thing i like about flatwater SUP is that it changes the size of the closest lake, it becomes just the right size for a <2hr paddle and its so easy to grab it out of the truck bed while a kayak is more hassle more equipment putting on the vehical

    WW SUP has doubled the size of the local kayak club which is awesume, I don't wana do it but a couple of the locals are really good doing 3+/ 4

    WW Kayak has always been a fringe sport IME probaby cuz its cold, scary and a big hassle while Sea kayak is becoming popular

    I can't sit in a kayak anymore so all the boats/ all the gear has been sold

    and i am a has-been kayaker
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    Re: Axe throwing, spikeball, and all the other misc "white people" activities...


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    It was hackey sak when I was in college.. Ultimate Frisbee comes and goes..

    Reminds me. First saw the hackey sak concept when I was a 6 year old child, 1972 in Korea. It was a weight with plastic tassels on it kids were using to practice soccer juggle skills.. exactly like a hackey sak but with little streamers on it..
    Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!

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    Disc Golf. Can't believe that hasn't been mentioned. or maybe it has.

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    How bout regular golf. Dying sport....hopefully. Same with baseball.

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    Crossfit. How the hell is working out a sport?

    ..has Crossfit been mentioned already?

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    Quote Originally Posted by evdog View Post
    How bout regular golf. Dying sport....hopefully. Same with baseball.
    Most of my colleagues still talk golf all day every day. I played A LOT mediocre golf from the time I was about 9 until about age 35.I played on the golf team in 9th grade. I stopped playing because I didn't still have friends who played when I moved from Texas to NC. I went back to skateboarding and playing drums,, the shit I should have been doing as a teenager instead of playing golf with old farts..

    But ya, if you want to run in the upwardly mobile corporate circles you gotta play golf.. and talk European soccer. That's the water cooler chit chat right there..
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    Quote Originally Posted by yeahman View Post
    I'd rather be roped up 1,000 feet off the ground than unroped 10 feet up with a bunch of angular sharks lurking below.
    Yeah, 20 years of roped climbing with nothing major and the one trip we decide not to lug gear and just boulder the missus fucked up her shoulder on a 3 foot fall and still can’t climb. Lots of rehab but still limited strength and range of motion. Hoping for next spring.

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    Quite a few disc golf fanatics around these parts. Weird thing is the folks I know doing it seem to look down on real golf. Seems bizarre as an outsider. Clearly they both suck!

    Unfortunate to hear that XXXer can no longer sit in a XXX kayak. Not that I could ever fit in those damn boats
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    My kids’ school redid the playground and they put in a Gaga ball “pit”. I previously thought that game was something Bobs Burgers made up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by evdog View Post
    How bout regular golf. Dying sport....hopefully. Same with baseball.
    Hardly considered sports of the "New Millenium" eh?
    I have been in this State for 30 years and I am willing to admit that I am part of the problem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by skinipenem View Post
    Crossfit. How the hell is working out a sport?

    ..has Crossfit been mentioned already?
    Good one. Hearing a lot less about this one. And all the 'fittest man in the world' etc. labels and the rest of the nauseating bs that go along with Crossfit can go away anytime. And what's with those pull ups

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