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I am a senior double majoring in Communication and Recreation, Sport, and Tourism. I have had a summer internship with NBCUniversal, but want to focus more on the Recreation and Travelling aspect of my degree.

I LOVE traveling and my dream job would be to get paid to travel or go on roadtrips. I love meeting new people, emerging myself in new cultures, and working with others. I am outgoing, fun, and a very big people-person.

I am looking for any crazy/wild/fun job ANYWHERE that is PAID. I am interested in extreme sports, traveling, roadtrips, event planning, marketing, recreation, leisure, etc. I want to gain experience in the field. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions I would greatly appreciate them.

Ideas: Wounded Warrior Project, Red Frog Events, Spartan Race, Truth.com, buzzfeed, TOMS shoes, anything non-profit as well (anything similar/related would be awesome)

Okay, so, you want an "internship" that sends you to some exotic locale, covers your expenses, and pays you on top of that? Congratulations, so does everyone else 🙂

Seriously though, these type of things are few and far between. There’s opportunities to volunteer, opportunities to intern, opportunities for paid internships, and opportunities to travel, but very rarely do any of these things intersect. Many charity organizations will take you on and assign you to wherever there is a need, and they may even cover your room and board and a small stipend, but the caveat is that you have to pay to get there, and go where they tell you. You can work teaching English in Asia, even if you don’t know the local language, and you’ll get paid to do so, but again, you have to get there yourself and take care of yourself once you’re there. Try to check with your school, perhaps they have some resources that aren’t commonly known and can point you in the right direction.

Good luck.

I’m wanting to do one of these sports one day but not sure which one, so which one is better?

Airsoft and paintball are two sports that should be able to coexist, but don’t. The sports both serve different markets. Paintball seems to entertain the people that tend to play "extreme sports". It is characterized by fast paced, hard hitting, action. Airsoft serves the more tactical crowd, who prefer teamwork and strategy over speed of action. Airsoft is also very commonly used as an effective tool for training in Military/Police forces. Also, I see a lot of people try to use the excuse, "people lie in airsoft since there’s no mark from the paint." I am an airsofter, but occasionally play paintball. And I have to say, I have come across more liars in paintball than in airsoft. Just because you get paint on you, doesn’t mean it won’t come off. I’ve seen many paintballers carry around wet towels to wipe of the paint to stay in game. Since there is no paint in airsoft, this sport requires more honesty and trust in your fellow players. So, in my personal opinion, I think you should pick up airsoft as a sport. It’s more realistic as a sport, the guns shoot harder and faster, the guns are more realistic, and its a ton cheaper. But, if you like running in circles, spraying at every thing that moves, by all means, pick up a paintball marker.

~Airsoft Ghillie
Four Year Airsoft Sniper

I mean extreme sports, like: bungee jumping, sky diving and the like

crazy that’s really all just crazy

I own a clothing company and I am looking to sponsor some Action/Extreme sports Amatuers and Pros. I want to know where I can find them, their info and contact them. I am looking to sponsor skateboarders, BMX riders, FMX riders, wakeboarders, and snowboarders.

go on youtube type in sponsor me video there tons of them

before last thursday I never rode a motorcycle. I passed the course and now I need to know what kind of sport bike would best fit me. Im 6-1 and I don’t want to look like a monster on a pocket size motorcycle. Also which bike would be best to visit my hometown (165 miles from current location). I’ve done extreme sports (boxing, dirt bike, snowboarding, etc) all my life so I’m not afraid of size or control.

I’m in the exact same boat as you, from what I’ve noticed its hard to take someone’s opinion with any merit. This is because only you know what your capable of. Its easier to get a straight answer from someone if you ask about a specific bike. Looks play a role in my decision as well as ergo, comfort, weight, and power. I like the V-twin engines instead of the i-4’s, but those super sport bikes can be found cheap because owners get scared riding them or decide motorcycling isn’t for them after they drop it once.
I’ve tried 6 different bikes in my testing ‘the waters’ experience, as most of my riding has been on dirt. Honestly if your going to get a super sport bike, get one, you don’t need any validation from someone here at yahoo, but if you want my opinion and you have some time, research a little bit. I’ve joined the gixxerforum and the svforum (Google them). Some other people have some really good ideas about moding their bikes to specifically suit them. The ninja 250’s seem to small, at least to me and at 6’1 probably yourself too, and I would say the ninja 500 but I think their really 90’s looking (in a bad way).
After everything I’ve heard and been recommended; not to mention lectured about over the past few months I’m most likely going to get the sv650 used. Its a vertical twin cylinder, standard seating position (better for longer rides), with lots of low end power and torque. Once I’ve put 10k miles on it then I’ll consider one of the super sport bikes, because as much as I like to think I’m ready for one; It’s smarter that I don’t. Check out the ducati monster as well, its a cool looking naked style bike.

Like insanely obsessed to the point where they can hate other people due to their choice of teams to support? I dont think Ive ever obsessed over anything to the point I see some sports fans. I am just curious about some insight into what goes on in the mind of extreme sports fans. Is it similar to an addiction?

If anything, it has more parallels to religion. People select a team often as a kid based almost entirely on faith and background – do you like the Toronto Maple Leafs because they’re objectively a good team, or because you’re from Toronto and your parents have a few jerseys in the living room?

People generally feel assaulted when you attack (I use the term attack in the figurative sense) their point of view, and when that point of view is personified by some sports team, it’s reinforced not only by whatever beliefs they hold about that team, but by all the friends and sense of community they have that also surrounds that team. It’s like a cult.

Particularly extreme sports.
It’s not hot enough like spain, we have tons of beaches but the water is too cold for most water sports, except maybe surfing, and our beaches are really rocky as well
Or it’s not cold enough for snowboarding, skiing etc.
The only sports we have are field sports really. Sick of having to travel to other countries all the time to do cool kinds of sports.

Because it’s further north than Newfoundland. The only thing that keeps from being freezing cold ten months of the year is the Gulf Stream. Southern Spain is the same Latitude as Charleston, SC which why it’s no nice there.

What do girls think about the personality of a guy who LOVES fast extreme sports, like surfing, skimboarding, and wakeboarding? Assume you don’t know much about his personality, but you know that he LOVES extreme boarding sports. What would your initial stereotypes about his personality be, if any at all?

Well, if he’s got a hot bod and is nice then I have no problem

I want to start paintballing and start playing it alot and maybe get on a team. PLEASE tell me everything i need to know. From what gun to get, to what kind of paintballs to use, to what stuff I should wear, and stuff like that. THX!

Good anwser rich. Okay this will be a long one but i’ll just hit the high points for you. Congrats on your decision, paintball is an amazing sport. Paintball is the 3rd largest extreme sports in the world and the most played sport every weekend around the globe ever. Alittle history lesson next. Paintball originated well over 25-30 years ago by cowhands that used pellet rifles with small claiber paintballs to mark cattle with but quickly turned into a game with each other. There for a decade or so paintball had a rough start but eventually gained ground when people began making companies to produce products and markers. Paintballs where WAY more expensive than they are today but considering if your pump pistol only shot an average of 1bps per second and games where mainly woods you didn’t need much anyways. Through shakey beginnings companies answered the players needs by trying to build a reliable semi auto marker to bust the pump blues people had fallen into. The first real success came from tippmann and pmi with the introduction of tippmanns smg68 and 68 special along with pmi’s infamous Pmi 3 (vm68) despite being gas hogs they did their job of reliability in 1990. The vm68 paved the way for the new stacked blow back design markers (i.e spyders) and tippmann setting themselves inline for further sucess. While both companies continued to push their way further in technology more and more companies hit the market to try their hand in the trade.
Agd hit the scene with one intention in mind, to cut the air hog issue down thus breaking the mold with their blow foward design (automag) which opperated at a much less 400-500psi than previous markers on the market. Agd was also the first to offer a rate of fire statistic (7bps). Due to the markers low pressure cycle an air source above 850psi was needed so these markers were more or less pushed into a highpressure league but the incarring public still supported it’s amazing success and their markers are still being produced today! Wgp hit the scene with being well known for their earlier projects (nelson and sheridan pumps) had taken the sheridan based pump (the sniper) and turned it into a trigger actuated pneumatically automated semi auto marker know as the autococker.Thanks to this automation system, the gun used a very low gas pressure fed to a pneumatic ram to cock the gun following each shot. Since the cocking action and the firing are not happening simultaneously (which is the case with a blow-back / spyder), the gas is not required to do double duty, thus overall gas pressure is not an issue.
This marker went on to become the first marker to ever be made entirely out of aftermarket parts and it’s upgradability and closed bolt function made this an instant popularity winner which is still in production today. After these steps foward most of the semiauto markers became "higher end gear" field forcing pumps to an entry level status until the introduction of kingman industries which produced a reliable blow back marker for under 200 dollars and still hold the title for entry level markers today. The pumps on the other hand got the shaft for awhile by being seen as "the poor persons marker" and yielded a big disadvantage to the user if they were to be playing with semi auto owners. Recently pump leagues have began to spring up and regain the pumps popularity with the help of chipley machine and many others.
Since the mid-late 90’s paintball really took off. Not only for gear but in playing style. People began to come out of the woods to play the new exciting speedball games and left a few in the middle for recball. Thus spreading the game to new horizons. The gear began to take a turn for the sky as tons of new companies hit the market with improving the sport in their sights. Electro pnuematic markers ruled the speedball fields and apg magazines but were rarely in the price range of the average person. Air systems began to get more reliable and complex while dropping slighty in price while paintball goggles began to encorporate the face shield more into their normal makes pleasing many users. Around the turn of the century markers began to slide toward an electric mode of operation starting with electric frame upgrades for mags,cockers,spyders,ect. and eventually a few years later leading markers to come stock with such. The big joke we always had back around 1998-2000 was that one day electronic markers would be affordable which open mouth insert foot occured because now the low level markers that hover around 100 dollars or less come strapped with electronics. Break throughs in the paint area was nothing short of amazing also due to a much better .68 shell and fill at a lower price. Around 2000-2003 higherend markers of the 90’s began to fade away (cocker,mag,ect.) as the market gave birth the the new shocker design and dyes dm series spool valve markers along with many, many others. Here we are today with 25+bps compared to the old 7bps from our friend the mag and electronic upgrades are affordable and well worth the dollar. A full gear setup for a beginner can now be purchased for under 100 bucks and walmarts deal with brasseagle (daisy) helps bring it just a tad closer to the public by helping new players get their feet wet and upgrade from those beginnings.
Tournements in speedball styles became very popular and attracted many multimillion dollar sponsers which helped speedball glamorize the sport across the globe. Woods became a milsim (military simulation) based style now which further pushed tippmanns amazing track record and following.
It seems in your answer you’re wanting to play more of a recball/speedball style of paintball judging from your willingness to join a team. Don’t put your buggy in front of your horse friend, every successful team started out small and worked their way up to a win. Nobody, not even Lang or The troll can do such a feat as starting on the speedball field.
I suggest you invest in a model 98, spyder or piranha and familularize yourself with all the styles of play to get your feet wet before focusing on practice. Crawl before you walk, start in the woods as where most all of us did and enjoy yourself and get used to your gear and gain some building blocks of knowledge then move on to recball which would to get a faster pace feel for things and then after awhile move on to the speedball field. Start solo and practice with some friends to get the feel of the objectives and bunkers in the game. Upgrade your gear about this time to an electro pnuematic and learn to use it as a part of your body, like a 3rd arm if you will. Always challenge slighty better players as to gain some sort of a staircase to climb with experience and practice. After you’ve gotten a good tase of things and feel confident enough join a team and prepare for tourney play. There’s hundreds of drills a seasoned player would be glad to show you to help out when that time arrives. During this evolution into different styles I still enjoy playing woods just as much as I enjoy getting nasty at huntington beach for a tourney. Doing this step up program gives your a MUCH wider view of the sport as a whole and it’s gear which in the long run will fuel yourself to numerous wins and fun times. Paintballs? I suggest going with a good brand such as draxxus or rps. Stuff to wear? I wear a pair of paintball pants and a longsleeve shirt, cleats and gloves. Most wear that setup or just a simple pair of pants and a tee. To ensure the most out of your marker be sure to stick by the three b’s of paintball which is Bolt,Barrel & Ball. An aftermarket bolt will not only increase the markers efficiency but you’ll gain some accuracy. The barrel which anything over 14" becomes a friction problem on the exiting paintball causing a drastic loss in air efficiency and accuracy so a good 12-14" barrel such as an evil driver,j&j ceramic,armson stealth,smart parts tear drop,ect will do the trick. Paintballs have a shelf life and unless used quickly or stored correctly will begin to break down the shell and form dimples and softness which will not fly straight and might repture before exiting the barrel.
Markers all should be operated at under 300fps and goggles to be worn at all times when around a armed marker without a barrel blocking device secured. By insurance standards paintball is the safest sport out there and that includes tennis,golf,frisbee,ect.
Congrats,enjoy and for anything further or if I left something important out (i’m sleepy) then email me at hotshot_pb@hotmail.com

Hi, I’m an entrepreneur who would like to know more about Adventure Sports Business in India. I’d like to know more about the groups and associations which promote adventure sports in India, I’m learning and aspire to do Business in extreme sports. Please help if u can?

Hi,

The market for adventure sports in India is still in a nascent stage. However, people are opening up to the need for adventure, so as to become tougher and more self-reliant in their everyday lives. The market, however, is very slow in adopting this activity as the general awareness about it is low.
Firstly, you need to take space of land in India and need to make groups. To do popular your business you can do many things like, you print posters, banners, pamphlet, stickers, letterhead with your company logo in attractive manner. These all are very helpful to increase any business.