101 Sports Not to Try

Covering a huge variety of events and activities from wife-carrying to canoe bobsleigh, 101 Sports Not to Try lists the likelihood of death or injury for each sport, the history, cost, rewards and the bizarre clothing you might be obliged to wear. The list combines conventional sports such as lacrosse, skydiving and speedway, with local classics such as the Pamplona bull run, yabbie racing or the burning barrel dash in Devon. You can play elephant polo or camel polo (with a headless goat as a ball), or simply wrestle the camel. You can choose to toss dwarves, wellies or mobile phones; get your head round impossible rules in the Eton Wall Game or Henry VIII's favourite, real tennis. In Ireland you can try bog snorkelling, in Holland dyke jumping, in Belgium songbird listening, in Canada log rolling and in Florida crab racing. 101 Sports Not to Try gives you all the reasons you need not to join in.