Vintage Baseball https://richmondsunsetnews.com/2024/10/03/playing-like-its-1886-gg-parks-vintage-baseball-throwback/

Fielders wear thin gloves with separated fingers, teammates give each other nicknames, and use vintage vocabulary, and exhibit sportsmanlike behavior towards teammates and their opponents.

This is “Single-Bamboo Drifting” (独竹漂), a traditional sport of the Miao peoples in Guizhou.

You stand on a broad bamboo trunk and steer/propel with a thin bamboo stick. Often combining it with complicated dance. It requires a lot more balance than I could ever have managed at any point in my life.

Underwater Football. https://www.underwaterfootball.com/main.html

Originally started (late 60s) to get SCUBA students more time snorkelling and and getting comfortable with having a mask flood and learning how to clear it.

Paintballing - I can personally confirm that this hurts a ton! It’s fun but I’ve gotten bruises from it…

Cold water swimming - can be daunting at first, I’ve participated in it a few times and you do get used to it over time though!

Paintball, specifically Speedball.

Yes, the general public plays it for birthday parties and what-not, but I’m talking about the professional side. Inflatable bunkers, walking the trigger, call outs, the occasional bonus ball/fight. Really gets the adrenaline pumping!