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Alligator Wrestling is an eXtreme sport we had to include.   It takes more than just physical strength to  handle an alligator,  you also need to be in the right state of mind.  Alligator wrestling is a dangerous and exciting activity. People learn to wrestle an alligator for survival, personal satisfaction or showmanship. Realize that wrestling an alligator can result in injury or death. If you do decide to try the sport here are some tips: The first alligator you try to wrestle should be small

Archery is the art, practice, or skill of propelling arrows with the use of a bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat.  The oldest indication for its use comes from the Stellmoor in the Ahrensburg valley north of Hamburg, Germany and dates from the late Paleolithic, about 10,000–9,000 BC.  Today, archery serves more as a recreational activity. One of the reasons archery is such a great sport is that just about anyone can participate in it; old, young, handicapped, even the blind

Basketball, a competitive team sport is one of the most popular and widely viewed sports in the world. Two 5-person teams each try to score points against one another by placing a ball through a 10 foot (3.048 m) high hoop (the goal) under organized rules. Basketball involves a lot of running, footwork, starting and stopping, ball coordination, passing and shooting.  While not exactly an aerobic sport, basketball provides a great workout that can help you: burn calories (an hour of basketball can burn 630–750

Cycling is an activity most commonly performed on a bicycle and it is Eco friendly to the environment.  Cycling provides cardiovascular training, tones leg muscles, and buttocks.  Cycling is a low impact exercise on the knees and other joints making the sport ideal for people with arthritis. Biking is an eXceptional form of exercise and a great way to enjoy South Florida’s great scenery and weather. South Florida offers riding clubs, cycling classes, mountain biking parks,  triathlons and other biking events  in which to participate.

Whatever your preferred style of boating, there are many physical activities to participate in by taking a boat out onto the gorgeous warm waters of South Florida. Boating can help you eXceed your limits as it allows for the body to purify mentally and physically.  Some physical activities to do while boating include swimming, tossing a ball, water-skiing, fishing, synchronized swimming, tubing and diving. Directory of recommended vendors: Certifications/Rentals Captain Joe’s Rentals, Tours & Charters 305-218-2249 (Joe) 305-303-7858 (James) Eden Roc Marina 4525 Collins Avenue,Miami

“Budokon (bu-do-kon), is a living art.  By that I mean it is the art of living. It is your waking and your sleeping, your walking and your sitting, your living and your dying. I cannot say that it is more special than any other art. In fact, it is not special at all. It is the practitioner who brings all that the art is, all that the art will ever be. Budokon is not about gaining ideas. There is nothing to gain from it. It

Dirt Bike Riding is an eXtreme sport that requires both  mental and physical strengths of the body. Dirt Bike Riding requires good posture, strength, balance, and coordination. Beginners can enjoy the power of a bicycle with motors and learn to ride a dirt bike. When you are riding down a nice straightaway and you feel like goosing it, start in a low gear. Work that gear to its full potential, and then shift up (if you have an automatic bike, don’t worry about this). Once

The growing popularity of the game of disc golf begins with the essential fact that throwing a flying disc with power and accuracy is a marvelous sensation. The constant challenge, the social nature of the game, the good physical and mental conditioning, and the fact that it is inexpensive to begin play are also attractions. Disc golf is a recreational sport for everyone, regardless of age, gender, or ability. The object of the game is to traverse a course from beginning to end in the

Fishing obviously entails catching fish. According to FAO statistics, the total number of fishermen and fish farmers is estimated to be 38 million. Fishing is an ancient practice that dates back at least to the Paleolithic period which began about 40,000 years ago from eastern Asia. Fishing is a great outdoor activity that requires core strength, muscular endurance, balance, power and patience. There are also an abundant nutritional benefits in eating fish, an excellent source for omega-3s. Studies suggest that high cholesterol and high blood

Golf is a precision club-and-ball sport, in which competing players, using many types of clubs, attempt to hit balls into each hole on a golf course while employing the fewest number of strokes. Golf is one of the few ball games that does not require a standardized playing area. Instead, the game is played on golf courses where now two are alike. For 12 months of the year, the golfing enthusiast will find the golf courses in South Florida open and challenging.  The modern game

Hiking is an outdoor activity which consists of walking in natural environments, often on hiking trails. It is such a popular activity that there are numerous hiking organizations worldwide.Hiking is one of the fundamental outdoor activities on which many others are based. Many beautiful places can only be reached overland by hiking, and enthusiasts regard hiking as the best way to see nature. If you are looking for a workout, hiking offers an opportunity to break a sweat. The level of excursion, however, is not

Equestrianism refers to the skill of riding or driving horses.the best estimate is that horses first were ridden approximately 4,500 BC.  The horse played an important role throughout human history all over the world, both in warfare and in peaceful pursuits such as transportation, trade and agriculture. Horseback riding is a recreational and therapeutic activity enjoyed by individuals of all ages and abilities.  As a sport, it provides the rider with the opportunity to master the skills necessary to confidently control and steer the horse

Jet Ski is the brand name of personal watercraft (PWC). “Jet Ski” became foremost the colloquial term for stand-up personal watercraft, because in 1973 Kawasaki was responsible for a limited production of stand-up models. Free ride is the most extreme form of jetskiing, where the rider surfs waves like a surfer would and uses the waves as a jump ramp for aerial manoeuvres. Jet skiing actually is a form of physical exercise that benefit any fitness level. Individuals with the following conditions can reap most

Kayaking is the use of a kayak for moving across water. Kayaking is generally differentiated from canoeing by the sitting position of the paddler and the number of blades on the paddle.Almost all kayaks have big decks, however, there are many sit-on-top kayaks, and these boats are growing in popularity. A canoe is defined as a boat where the paddler faces forward and kneels in the boat, using a single bladed paddle. Canoes can be closed deck or open deck. Kayaking is a fun way

Kitesurfing or kiteboarding is a surface water sport that uses wind power to pull a rider through the water on a small surfboard or a kiteboard (similar to a wakeboard). The Chinese are credited with using kites for propulsion in the 13th century. Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s Dieter Strasilla from Germany developed parachute-skiing and later perfected a kiteskiing system using self made paragliders and a ball-socket swivel allowing the pilot to kitesail upwind and uphill but also to take off into the air

Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin that is played using a small solid rubber ball and a long-handled racquet called a crosse or lacrosse stick. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose netting that is designed to hold the lacrosse ball. Offensively, the objective of the game is to use the lacrosse stick to catch, carry, and pass the ball in an effort to score by ultimately hurling the ball into an opponent’s goal. Defensively, the objective is to

Paintball is a sport, in which players compete, in teams or individually, to eliminate opponents by hitting them with pellets containing paint (referred to as a paintball) from a special gun called a paintball marker. In 1976, Hayes Noel, a stock trader, Bob Gurnsey, and Charles Gaines were walking home and chatting about Gaines’ recent trip to Africa and his experiences hunting buffalo. Eager to recreate the adrenaline rush that came with the thrill of the hunt, and inspired by Richard Connell’s The Most Dangerous

A recreational pursuit in which participants traverse urban structures by running, jumping, vaulting, rolling, etc. Parkour is a discipline of speed and efficiency, getting from point A to point B using nothing but your own body. Parkour encompasses all basic human movement, it isn’t a sport where there are tricks however, popular techniques are used that have been discovered and proven to be efficient and safe. A traceur (a person who practices parkour) understands firstly, that parkour is practiced for a reason and that is

Roller skating/blading is the traveling on smooth terrain with roller skates. It is a form of recreation as well as a sport, and can also be a form of transportation. The first recorded use of roller skates was 1743, in a London stage performance. The inventor of this skate is lost to history. Roller skating can be enjoyed a slow pace on the boardwalk of the beaches or an eXtreme sport that entails unbelievable tricks. Studies have shown that roller skating provides a complete aerobic

Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water. Rowing is a demanding sport requiring strong core balance as well as physical strength and cardiovascular endurance.Rowing is one of the few non-weight bearing sports that exercises all the major muscle groups, including quads, biceps, triceps, lats, glutes and

Running is a means for an animal to move on foot. It is defined in sporting terms as a gait in which at some point all feet are off the ground at the same time. Running refers to any of a variety of speeds ranging from jogging to sprinting. Running is one of the most effective ways to lose weight, improve cardiovascular health, increase muscle mass, increase bone density, and an improved emotional state. For new runners, it takes time to get into shape. The

Sailing is the art of controlling a boat with large (usually fabric) foils called sails. By changing the rigging, rudder, and sometimes the keel or centre board, a sailor manages the force of the wind on the sails in order to change the direction and speed of a boat. Mastery of the skill requires experience in varying wind and sea conditions, as well as knowledge concerning sailboats themselves. The health benefits of sailing affects aerobic capacity, the oxygen uptake during board sailing is greater than

Scuba diving is form of underwater diving in which a diver uses a scuba set to breathe underwater for recreation, commercial or industrial reasons.  Unlike early diving, scuba divers now carry their own source of breathing gas, creating the ability to exercise in the greatest waters of South Florida. Improving your underwater breathing skills and challenge yourself to hold your breath for 2-3 minutes is X! Diving is a  sport for most  physical fitness levels. Southeast Florida is rated the best dive destination in Florida

Skateboarding was probably born sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s when surfers in California wanted something to surf when the waves were flat. No one knows who made the first board, rather, it seems that several people came up with similar ideas at around the same time. These first skateboarders started with wooden boxes or boards with roller skate wheels attached to the bottom. Skateboarding is most common among the younger, and helps youth grow in a various ways. The physical benefits can

Skydiving, is the sport of jumping from enough height to deploy a fabric parachute and land safely. The history of diving appears to start with Andre-Jacques Garnerin who made successful parachute jumps from a hot-air balloon in 1797. The military developed parachuting technology first as a way to save aircrews from emergencies aboard balloons and aircraft in flight, later as a way of delivering soldiers to the battlefield. Early competitions date back to the 1930s, and it became an international sport in 1951. Skydiving is

Snorkeling  is the practice of swimming on or through a body of water while equipped with a diving mask, a shaped tube called a snorkel, and usually swimfins. Some of the most beautiful things on Earth are actually under water. Take these adventures around the world. When you travel to a new environment, make sure to make one of the first things that you do be snorkeling. Each location of the world that you can snorkel in will have a new environment for you to

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team (11 players one goalkeeper) sport played between two teams of eleven players using a spherical ball. Association football is the most popular football variant worldwide, and is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world.The modern rules of football are based on the mid-19th century efforts to standardise the widely varying forms of football played at the public schools of England. A study by Danish researches found that soccer players

Stand up paddlesurfing/stand up paddleboarding (SUP), in the Hawaiian language Hoe he’e nalu, is an emerging global sport with a Hawaiian heritage.  It can be traced back to the early days of Polynesia. In the early 1960s, the Beach Boys of Waikiki would stand on their long boards, and paddle out with outrigger paddles to take pictures of the tourists learning to surf. This is where the term “Beach Boy Surfing”, another name for Stand Up Paddle Surfing, originates. The sport benefits athletes with a

Surfing is the act of riding down a breaking wave, gathering speed from the downward and forward movement.  Surfing was a central part of ancient Hawaiian culture, and the chief was the most skilled wave rider in the community with the best board made from the best tree. There are an extensive health and physical benefits from surfing. Surfing is a great cardiovascular exercise, using mostly upper body muscles to do the paddling work, and leg muscles to guide the board once you’re up and

Swimming is movement through water, usually without artificial assistance and an excellent form of exercise. The density of the human body is very similar to that of water, the water supports the body and less stress is therefore placed on joints and bones. Swimming targets the legs, bottom, arm, and chest muscles. A good 30-minute swimming session at least three times a week can help improve your cardiovascular system, tone major muscle groups and burn around 250 calories. Swimming is an effective way to burn

Tennis is a sport played between two players (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent’s court. The modern game of tennis originated in the United Kingdom in the late 19th century as “lawn tennis” which has heavy connections to various field/lawn games as well as to the ancient game of real tennis. Tennis has been called, “sport of a lifetime” and

A trapeze is a short horizontal bar hung by ropes or metal straps from a support. It is an aerial apparatus commonly found in circus performances. Unlike many cities, Miami offers Trapeze schools for anyone to participate in. Trapeze now is enjoyed as a sport, physical excercise and hobby. Trapeze works tones the upper body, strengthens the core, build balance, co-ordination and self-confidence. You can burn up to 500 calories in just 20 minutes! Directory of recommended vendors: Flying Trapeze 786.239.8775 301 North Biscayne Blvd,

Volleyball is an Olympic team sport in which two teams of 6 active players are separated by a net. The origin of volleyball was on February 9, 1895, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, William G Morgan, a YMCA physical education director, created a new game called Mintonette as a pastime to be played preferably indoors and by any number of players. The game took some of its characteristics from tennis and handball. Another indoor sport, basketball, was catching on in the area, having been invented just ten

Wakeboarding is an eXciting water sport that has eXploded in the last decade. A little over 20 years a San Diego surfer named Tony Finn developed a strange hybrid water ski and surfboard called the ‘skurfer’ that was pulled behind a boat and allowed people to “surf” using the boat’s wake. The now modern wakeboard has boots attached and has been perfected to create the perfect board needed to perform the most eXtreme tricks. The sport includes several disciplines including slalom, tricks, cable, jump, ski

Windsurfing is a surface water sport using a windsurf board usually two to four meters long and powered by the effect of the wind on a sail. The rig is connected to the board by a free-rotating universal joint and comprises a mast, wishbone boom and sail. The fitness benefits as a beginner, using your leg muscles to balance on the board while employing your shoulders, forearms and lower back to control the force of the sail. Learning to balance on the windsurf also means