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Kiteboarding replaces Windsurfing in 2016 Games

Kiteboarding is an amalgamation of other water sports such as wakeboarding, windsurfing, surfing, paragliding, as well as gymnastics; creating one cool, extreme water sport. This hybrid sport has been chosen to make its debut at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, following a meeting and announcement by the International Sailing Federation (ISAF). Check out the video below to see what you think of this new Olympic sport:

If you fancy taking up this extreme sport this summer, contact us today to get specialist kiteboarding insurance, as well as windsurfing insurance, surfing insurance and paragliding insurance.

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Scottish Daredevil Defies the Odds

We have another courageous adrenaline junkie for you this week. Dean Dunbar, born in Edinburgh, suffers from a rare condition called rod and cone dystrophy which has affectively resulted in Dean losing his eyesight.

He hasn’t let this hold him back though and he caught the adrenalin bug 2 years after the condition took away his eyesight completely, partaking in a skydive for the first time in his life. Speaking to the Daily Record, Dean speaks of how he got hooked on extreme sports,

“I can’t describe the feeling I got from the experience.

“They say that drug addicts keep taking drugs so they can get the same feeling of their first high – and I feel exactly the same about the skydiving.

“By the time my feet touched the ground, I was addicted to the buzz. Now I’m constantly trying to find bigger and better extreme sports.

Dean has no plans to hang up his pulse-raising boots just yet either, with plans to swim the English channel for his chosen Scottish charity.

To read more about Dean and his extreme sports experiences, here is his interview with The Daily Record

And you can vist his personal site here, to see what his present and future extreme plans are:

www.extremedreams.co.uk

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Find a New Lease of Life in Extreme Sports

Hero, Barry West, has turned to extreme sports in the most extreme, adverse circumstances.

35 year old Barry was paralysed from the neck down after a horror car crash, but he hasn’t let that curtail his need for an adrenalin rush. Despite the limitations of being confined to a wheelchair, Barry has taken up extreme sports such as Skydiving, Scuba diving and paragliding as well as scaling Mount Snowdon an incredible 4 times!

Rightly so, Barry has also been selected as one of the torchbearers for this year’s Olympics for his local town.

We say hats off to Barry, and the great sense of adventure that he’s showing!

For more info about Barry and his inspirational activities, you can check out the full article on The Sun website HERE and also visit his website, Westyuk.co.uk

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