Horse Surfing vs Dirf Bifing: Name the Real Extreme Sport!

Extreme sports culture, though totally extreme and awesome, walks a fine line. It's often a short distance from the outer limits of intensity to the dead center of hilarity. It makes perfect sense, then, that when your brain is primed to the potential absurdities of boundary-pushing recreation by the likes of the Ding Dong Boys, who mountain bike on surfboards, kayak up mountains, and rollerblade on halfpipes dropped from aeroplanes, that you'd become a bit skeptical. For instance, you might spend a bit too long searching for photoshop seams in shots of people wakeboarding behind horses in full gallop. But photoshop seams you shall not find. Because, as it turns out, people really are that awesome. And once you get past the initial absurdity, you're bound to reach a quick conclusion: this totally rules. Which is a conclusion that many seem to be reaching, as horse surfing appears to be catching on the world over. And why not? What's not to love about the return-to-nature harnessing of the majestic steed's mighty power in service of catching some gnarly shore break. So while truth may not really be stranger than fiction, it's still pretty wild.


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