http://blog.extremesportscafe.com Thoughts, Opinions, News and some waffle from the guys 'n' gals at Extreme Sports Cafe Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:05:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   Tandem Skydive Experience with Extreme Sports Cafe at our partner Drop Zone in Sri Racha near Pattaya in Thailand. To do a Tandem Skydive requires no experience but there are weight restrictions. The maximum weight for a Tandem Skydive is 95 Kilos. (fully clothed) Available all year round WE ARE NOW TAKING BOOKINGS FOR ... http://blog.extremesportscafe.com/2008/07/22/skydiving-in-thailand-on-the-up-and-up-again/ [qt:http://www.rocketracingleague.com/media/videos/RRL-Video(Promo-edited).mov 480 320] RRL Promo Video Sound like a video game? Of great interest to us was the comment on the video that you can play *against* real Rocket Racing League pilots online from a console!!! Mental stuff!  The Rocket Racing League® is an aerospace sports and entertainment organization that combines the competition of racing with the ... http://blog.extremesportscafe.com/2008/07/17/rocket-racing-league/ Come join us at our newest Kitesurfing location in Kenya... You can learn how to kitesurf in many spots around the world, but few offer the ideal conditions of Extreme Sports Café’s new partner Kenyan kitesurfing school for learning: wide beach, soft sand, protective barrier reef, no corals or rocks, cross ... http://blog.extremesportscafe.com/2008/06/15/kitesurfing-in-kenya/ I am mobile in the UK at the moment.. Needing a local number I went and bought a SIM card. The iPhone being on O2 here I grabbed one of theirs.. The one that said '50 Free Minutes' on the packet. It seemed reasonable at £10.00. However 10 minutes later flashing down the ... http://blog.extremesportscafe.com/2008/05/26/uk-o2-pay-as-you-go-sim-cards-are-a-rip-off/ Cool article on Wired.com.. Maddox has been into skydiving for 20 year and used to compete in tracking contests, where free-falling skydivers move horizontally across the sky at speeds approaching 120 mph. His buddy was always just a little bit faster, so Maddox thought "it'd be fun to strap a jet ... http://blog.extremesportscafe.com/2008/05/21/jet-powered-bicycle-skydiving-with-jets/ On the 6th March at 10:45am local time I jumped out of a helicopter from 2,800 feet. I opened my parachute after 1.5 seconds. We opened over the ocean and flew back to land on the beach where over 1000 Vietnamese locals looked on with interest. I jumped with Wendy Smith who ... http://blog.extremesportscafe.com/2008/05/05/skydive-vietnam-videos-from-the-world-record/ LSD Albert Hoffman died on Tuesday morning. RIP dude. http://blog.extremesportscafe.com/2008/05/01/no-relevance-just-a-very-funny-video/ A skydiving friend's gear has gone missing. Please forward far and wide and keep a look out for any and all pieces. Forwarded from Lauren: My name is Lauren Demme and my gear bag that has all of my skydiving gear in it has disappeared. It is black with purple ... http://blog.extremesportscafe.com/2008/04/19/missing-skydiving-gear-please-help-if-you-know-anything/ 'nuff said... Learn to Skydive. Learn to Kitesurf. Or cheat and use your iPhone to stay online! ;) http://blog.extremesportscafe.com/2008/04/16/shutdown-day/ Well this is just crazy! And the reasons given defy belief, particularly when you take into account the currently pending Chinese Olympics! The world-famous Red Arrows have been banned from appearing at the 2012 London Olympics because they are deemed 'too British'. Organisers of the event say that the Arrows military background ... http://blog.extremesportscafe.com/2008/04/13/red-arrows-banned-from-2012-london-olympics/