Too Chilly? Don’t Be Silly – Activities Thriving!

Aaron    Experience Guides     Bungee Jumping, extreme sports, skydiving, Snow Experiences

The weekend just gone was one of the coldest in a good long while, culminating in Saturday proving the most chilly November night for 25 years!

Surely no time to be out enjoying a high-octane activity you ask? Well, no – quite the contrary in fact!

The Extreme Element team aren’t deterred by a little bit of cold, oh no – not when it comes to what we consider to be the ultimate in adrenaline pumping experiences. This Saturday saw a few of us try our hand at Skydiving, arriving at the airfield at a frosty 8am for what was to be a truly unforgettable day.

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Top 10 Under £50 Early Bird Christmas Gift Ideas

Aaron    Experience Guides     4x4 Driving, Bungee, Bungee Jumping, experiences, extreme sports, mountain boarding, quad bi, quad biking, Snow Experiences, zapcat racing

Here is our Early Bird preview at the top recommended Christmas gifts for under £50 this year. A great range of gifts spanning the many terrains of Britain!

As the mad rush of the Christmas shopping gets underway, we realise that finding the perfect gift really isn’t easy. That’s why we’ve whittled down our Christmas Specials page to this great Top Ten list for under £50, hopefully minimising your head scratching time and giving you a fine choice of what to spoil your adrenaline seeker with this Christmas. With great 2for1’s and other tasty discounts, you’ll even be able to join in their fun and go along with them! All of that for under £50… sounds like the perfect gift to us!

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What to do With the Kids? – Keeping Them Entertained this Summer!

Aaron    Experience Guides     4x4 Driving, experiences, extreme sports, helicopter flights, High Ropes, Jet Skiing, kayaking, land-boarding, motocross, mountain boarding, quad biking, skydiving, Snow Experiences, track driving, wake boarding, water sports, zorbing sphereing

Keeping them Entertained is as easy as A, T, B…

This guide displays some of the great activities we have for taking the kids out for the day, be it to join in or get rid; you’ll find a great selection of best sellers, best enjoyed and best priced activities for the young’uns!

The summer holidays provide a challenging conundrum for parents and children alike, with the exhausting strain of six weeks worth of entertainment hitting the stress levels and purse strings hard.

Kids are also encapsulated in the utter joy of being off school for nearly 2 months, combined with a new found boredom for their inactive minds.

Well, how does one keep them entertained and busy for 6 weeks without breaking the bank? Send them to bootcamp? Send them out to earn themselves a few extra pennies?

Well one tried and tested method of keeping them entertained is to ignite a passion or a new hobby. The enthralling nature of spending all day perfecting a trick or learning a new technique – be it on wheels or their backside; is guaranteed to keep them occupied and happy this summer.

However, the allowance of such activities is a precarious situation for any parent; too much encouragement and they won’t do it – too little and they may resort to moping around all summer draining your resources!

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Pro Diaries: Katie Summerhayes – Interview – Freestyle Skiing

Aaron    The Professional's Arena     bristish freeski tour, experiences, extreme sports, freestyle skiing, grom games, junioe skiing, katie summerhayes, skier, skiing, Snow Experiences

We managed to catch up with this year’s Grom Games champion Katie Summerhayes for a quick chat, and to discuss how budding young skiers can get into the Skiing and Freestyle Skiing from a young age.

Hi Katie, thanks for speaking to us today. So, how long have you been Skiing for now?

Hey, no worries! I’ve been skiing for around 8 years now.

What exactly is Freestyle Skiing?

Well, Freestyle is a type of skiing that involves skiing off jumps, rails and on half pipes – performing as many ticks as possible! Skiing on rails and kickers takes good balance and a lot of practice, but is well worth it when you perfect a trick!

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Extreme Sports Guide to Buckinghamshire

Aaron    Destination Guides     4x4 Driving, experiences, extreme sports, gliding, Jet Skiing, motocross, skydiving, Snow Experiences, wake boarding, water skiing, water sports, zorbing sphereing

The county of Buckinghamshire is enriched with many claims to fame inside the UK, stretching across the first ‘real’ snow slope, the first Indoor Skydiving centre and the most successful Olympian to ever walk Blighty’s soil; Sir Steve Redgrave.

Wakeboarding in Buckinghamshire

The South East County is similar to its bordering county of Berkshire and its neighbour Surrey in that it falls easy on the eye with a dense population of woodland and countryside, and is also situated around 45 minutes away from Central London. The picturesque county has a wide range of activities and unique experiences to make a weekend visit out of, including those taken on water – as the county encompasses two of the three largest rivers in the UK.

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Extreme Sports Guide to Essex

Aaron    Destination Guides     4x4 Driving, experiences, extreme sports, Hang Gliding, helicopter flights, High Ropes, hot air ballooning, microlighting, power boating, quad biking, sailing, Snow Experiences

With the smallest town and the largest village in the UK; the county of Essex sure ticks a few boxes. And it is no different for the extreme sports courses and experiences scene with a decent range of activities ready to take and appreciate the many terrains of this Home County.

Flight at Dawn in Essex

The county of Essex mixes a green garden of countryside with an enormous coast, and is riddled with a history of Christian landmarks, including a 1000+ year old church (oldest wooden one in the world) amongst the many tourist attractions. The county also provides activity attractions in the shape of driving experiences that include a full day of Stock Car Racing, 4×4 Driving, Gliding excursions and more.

Essex is around 50 miles from London along the A12 & M25 and takes around 1.5 hours by train. With coastal, aerial and driving experiences aplenty; the countryside filled county makes for a quality weekend stay. We recommend…

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Extreme Sports Guide to Kent

Pipa    Destination Guides     climbing, gliding, helicopter flights, High Ropes, kitesurfing, scuba diving, Snow Experiences, zorbing sphereing

In the South East of the country lies the oldest and wisest county of them all; Kent. With Europe’s largest shopping centre, Europe’s largest shingle beach and the very first road lines to ever be painted; Kent is a historical haven with tales of the past seeping from the walls of its many listed buildings.

Quad Biking in Kent

Officially known as the ‘Garden of England’, the southern county is literally on the doorstep of London and has established itself as a popular getaway for travellers looking to escape city life. Flying activities such as microlighting and hang gliding are naturally rife here thanks to the countryside, whilst the shipwrecks left by WWII attacks now constitute one of the UK’s finest scuba diving locations. Including some of the great off road activities that are utilising England’s ‘Garden’ for driving activities, Kent also annually hosts the Touring Cars & Moto GP on the world famous Brands Hatch.

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Extreme Sports Guide to Berkshire

Aaron    Destination Guides     4x4 Driving, berkshire, Bungee, Go Karting, highest bungee, Jet Skiing, Snow Experiences, wake boarding

Home to the world’s largest inhabited Castle and the most prestigious Horse Racing circuit in the UK; the county of Berkshire is considered to be an almost Royal region. Sharing a border with the River Thames and sat less than an hour east from the Centre of London, the county offers a number of great getaway activities to escape the city life.

Berkshire Countryside

From the UK’s Highest Bungee Jump to Jet Ski Safaris on a 300 acre lake; Berkshire provides a small number of high quality experiences aimed at utilising the picturesque countryside and ranging terrains that being a Royal county has required. Having bore the world’s greatest explorer; Ranulph Fiennes, the county is now home to 0.8m residents, the UK’s most exclusive school – Eton, and one of the country’s biggest theme parks – Legoland.

With such rich heritage to appreciate in one of the UK’s oldest counties, it is also possible to combine a few extra curricular thrills with tours using this guide. read more