Top 5 Summer Sports in 2014

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Yes, it is time to think about summer! Why? Because it is pouring down, windy and my heating just does not want to warm up! So summer thoughts are happy thoughts, and in my case warm thoughts!

Being in the town of Brighton sports in summer at the beach just cannot be ignored. There is always a great mix going on at the seafront each year, from water sports to street sports everything is touched on. But, what are the top 5 trends this summer, can you really afford to not be rolling with the “in-crowd” (no pressure)?!

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Well to ensure you know what sports you can either dig out from your ‘past skills drawer’, or for which ones you will have to start practicing in your hallway (or bathtub); I have put together this top 5 list:

Retro is Back

Skateboarding

  By Ochre Jelly via Flickr 
 

Set the little skater in you free! Back in the 80s and early 90s skateboarding was THE big thing! This could be due to the fact that the “Back to the Future trilogy” was screening. Only the greatest movie trilogy of all times, which had skateboarding heavily featured. Who could forget Marty McFly skating himself out of hairy situations, until he arrives in 2015 when he mounts his amazing “hover board”. This summer could be the summer of skateboarding, as people get prepared to finally enter 2015 eagerly awaiting to finally pick up their hover boards at high-street retailers. 

So, get your boards dusted off and practice the balancing act before you hit the streets in summer.

Kiting

 By Fred Dawson via Flickr

I am not talking about our childhood memory of a diamond shaped DIY kite which you had to drag along whilst trying to get to a speed that would allow it to lift off. We are talking power kites, stunt kites, and sport kites – to sum it up “really cool kites”. 

Kiting is definitely back, just walking past the beach on a windy day is enough to see how popular this sport is already becoming. However, these kites are different; it’s retro with a twist. These new kites can be combined with loads of other sports i.e. water sports, snowboarding and skateboarding – they allow for unbelievable stunts and jumps. Definitely worth trying to wipe out that childhood memory and enter the more exiting world of kites.

Get your Groove on

Surfing

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Most men’s interest in surfing was awaken due to an amazing TV series in the 90s. Yes, you are guessing right, Baywatch. Of course I only watched it for the surfing stunts – never even realised the swimsuits!

Joke aside, with last summer’s heat still in our minds; surfing is the perfect sport to take on not just to cool off, but to look pretty cool as well. Even just having a surf board and using it to sunbath will get you the right attention! If the prospect of being dragged under water by a big wave is not totally up your street – but you still want to join a cool water sport why not try Paddle Boarding, and join the annual paddle around the pier event in Brighton

Basket Ball

 

  By  DennisSylvesterHurd via Flickr

During summer you will find me often at the basketball court down at Brighton beach. The love for basketball came with US movies, especially Space Jam – if Bugs Bunny can net a ball – by god so can I! One of the sports that will need the least investment in kit! You just need a ball! Then walk up to any public basketball court and hang around, sooner than you think you will be drawn into a team – and voila your basketball career has officially started (well that’s how it worked for me, and I wouldn’t call it a career either!)

The Unexpected

Flash Stacking



Never heard of flash stacking? Well you really want to check out this video on “Cup Stacking World Record” In short, you got a load of cups and you got to stack them as fast as possible. You thinking “PAH that’s easy?!” Again you really want to watch the video. It is all about stacking pyramids of cups as fast as possible. The current stacking record is held by Chandler Miller who achieved it in 1.482 seconds. If you think you would be unique by taking up this sport, I must disappoint, there are 555,932 participants, according to the Guiness World Record in 2013. 

 

 




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Finally ...

Choose whatever works best for you... and get practicing! 




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