Other Obscure Hobbiez

Pasquar · Post by **Pasquar** » 22 Jan 2011 09:41

GYMNASTICS; been an avid gymnast since I was 4.

Now footbag has kinda taken the throne and I haven't been to the gym in a LONG time now, but I think that gymnastics is arguably the best sport out there. I attribute not only my ability to pick up other sports with relative ease to gymnastics, but also the work ethic it has placed on my life. Gymnastics was for a long time #2 in importance in my life (after school) and while spending on average about 16 hours in the gym, I still had to maintain good grades, and learning this balance really shaped my life at an early age.
Athletically though, it's the perfect "base" sport in that it shapes skills used in EVERY sport, and because of this, I can usually pick up a sport or hobby with ease (not saying I master anything, just saying I can adapt to the point of having fun, which is always my main goal

)

sorry for the long-winded response, but I owe so much of my life to gymnastics

I also:

occasionally skateboard

occasionally snowboard

occasionally stencil

cycling (try to use as principle means of transport, except now because some d-bag broke into my house and stole my GMC road bike

)

like to mess around on a diving board every now and then (another thing I'm naturally equipped for because of gymnastics)

speaking of that ^^^, I LOVE big natural jumps/quarries/rope swings. haven't been to one in a good while, but I used to do it ALL the time

cd · Post by cd » 22 Jan 2011 10:48

That's insane, Nick. To be training in something like that since you were 4 is something I can't imagine.

Anyway, here's the finished longboard that some of you wanted to see. It's a little beat up at this point.

F[uns]tylin' Eclectic · Post by **F[uns]tylin' Eclectic** » 22 Jan 2011 12:17

Nick, I always thought that was so crazy cool how much of your life you've dedicated to gymnastics. You really did take to footbag quickly because of it.

And Chris, Holy crap. It's amazing you D.I.Y'ed that whole deck. Looks even prettier with trucks and hardware. I dig the paw stencil on the grip, too.

Runkstafari · Post by **Runkstafari** » 25 Jan 2011 08:57

beatboxing

freestylin spit rhymin

writer of short stories

DRAWING/PAINTING/ART OF ALL KINDS

juggling

love hitting the trails!

cliff jumping

rope swings (I have one in my trunk at all times waiting for perfect trees to be found and rope swung on.. HEADY ROPE SWINGS INC.)

jtm94 · Post by **jtm94** » 25 Jan 2011 10:24

Pocket bike riding

Making beats/instrumentals

Hockey

Tinkering with engines

Bike riding

Battlebot building

Runkstafari · Post by **Runkstafari** » 27 Jan 2011 06:54

jtm, you should send me some of your beats!

Donovon · Post by **Donovon** » 27 Jan 2011 08:38

I like how many are using the same bullets.

Im a musician. I actively pursue Guitar, Drum kit, Piano, Bass, Vocals

Jazz

Juggling

Neuroscience. Yes i get a lot of remarks on this, but I think its fascinating. I love studying the brain as a personal ambition. Mostly reading, attending courses/lectures. I am primarily interested in sensory deficit (blindness/deafness) and musical cognition.

I have to admit, I always felt that I had too many hobbies, but my list turns out shorter than many others.
Cool topic
~Donovon

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 30 Jan 2011 02:41

Neuroscience is super interesting. I seriously considered studying it at university.

As for my hobbies, none of them are obscure, except perhaps among people my age. I think they could all be lumped in to "naturalism." I go through phases of interest in different things. At the moment mainly birds, but plants, fungus, insects, spiders, geology and sea shells are all things I also photograph, collect, identify or have some interest in.

I don't know if you can call it a hobby, but books would be another major pastime of mine. I seem to be more of a collector than a reader though, but I'm working to get the balance right.

I play sport - Australian Rules Football and Touch Football, both of which have adequate wikipedia pages

I'm also involved in atheist movements, although increasingly rarely. I am the president of my university atheist society, and the state convenor of a "freethinking" organisation. I haven't been doing a great deal with either though and I'm probably not going to be involved this year - I still think religious is mainly a source of evil in the world, but there are other more serious issues to worry about.

zachatree · Post by **zachatree** » 30 Jan 2011 14:09

Asmus wrote:Foosball
DJing

hell ya foosball!!!

i LOVE foosball, me an some friends get together every other week an play. we are all pretty good.

simon12332 · Post by **simon12332** » 30 Jan 2011 14:17

FREERUNNING

g00d33 · Post by **g00d33** » 30 Jan 2011 17:46

simon12332 wrote:FREERUNNING

I tried to get into that before finding footbag, and I have a nifty scar on my shin because of it haha.

My other main hobby is trading card games, specifically:

- yugioh
- magic: the gathering (a lot less than yugioh though)

and I juggle a bit

Jiffy · Post by **Jiffy** » 04 Feb 2011 21:49

I juggle, kill at tetris, solve rubiks cubes, my best time is 45sec. not so obscure: soccer/freestyle soccer. sewing, duh, yoyoing sometimes, and sleeping

DTank126 · Post by **DTank126** » 06 Feb 2011 10:09

kill at tetris

Do you play on tetrisfriends?

Jiffy · Post by **Jiffy** » 06 Feb 2011 19:17

no, ive never heard of that

DTank126 · Post by **DTank126** » 07 Feb 2011 09:33

You should check it out. It presents different styles of playing tetris competitively. Tetrisfriends.com

zachatree · Post by **zachatree** » 10 Feb 2011 14:37

DTank126 wrote:You should check it out. It presents different styles of playing tetris competitively. Tetrisfriends.com

it is indeed sweet, some of the people are so good it will blow your mind.
i play on xbox live.

DTank126 · Post by **DTank126** » 12 Feb 2011 09:02

Dude I didn't know you played tetris. Add me, Vortex27 (totally not footbag-influenced

)

Dave Soderberg · Post by **Dave Soderberg** » 12 Feb 2011 18:31

mushroom hunting

drinking

not much else

F[uns]tylin' Eclectic · Post by **F[uns]tylin' Eclectic** » 12 Feb 2011 21:34

Mushroom hunting is awesome. My dad is a biologist and I'm a wildlife biology major. We used to go mushroom hunting when I was a kid and we'd bring our field guide with us and do spore prints and whatnot. Then when I was a senior in highschool, we'd to go into cow pastures, shoot the shit and scan the cow patties

I learned my lesson about those mushrooms, when 2 friends and I tripped and my best friend jumped out the window. He's ok now though. I don't do those anymore after the experience.

Zeke · Post by **Zeke** » 24 Feb 2011 13:46

PC Modding

Not quite sure it's a hobby... more like a year long project. I consider digital photography a hobby of mine and it compliments all my other hobbies quite nicely