Base jump?

To be honest, the cost of learning extreme sports isn't what prevents me from learning them, it's the whole "extreme" bit, linked to the whole "sport" bit. I don't do sport. Sport is evil to someone who is as unco-ordinated as I am. The only thing mildly sporty that I am any good at is fire twirling. It's loads of fun, and harder to set yourself alight than you would think. I have set my hair on fire once, and unless it's full of product it just sort of smoulders. Nothing a couple of pats of the hand can't deal with.

The only "extreme" thing I've actually done is extreme knitting - which is basically where you take your knitting somewhere you should not take your knitting, and rip off a few rows. I have knitted extremely at the beach, in the mountains, whilst bushwalking, and in the middle of what used to be a tree, now the empty innards of a strangler fig. That's about as extreme as I get.

So, if cost, danger and dying weren't actually issues, the extreme sport I would love to learn would be - base jumping. There is something insane, amazing and beautiful about jumping off a perfectly good mountain and free falling for a while till you pull your chute (or die horribly against the cliff face - either way). I think I will wait to give that a try until someone invents a transporter button that you can press to take you to a safe place in case of dying horribly whilst in free fall.