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Plunge headfirst into extreme sports, and get busy living life on the edge. From skateboarding to bungee jumping, MotoX to BMX, eHow’s sporting experts offer step-by-step instructions that show you how to test your limits. Heading out for a mountain vacation? Get tips and advice on snowboarding, skiing, ice climbing and extreme snowmobiling with eHow. Live in the city but still want to experience the thrills? Maybe the street luge is for you.

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How to Cutback on a Surfboard

By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor

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Big, powerful cutbacks are one of the signature moves of advanced surfers... more »

How to Determine if You're Regular or Goofy Foot

By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor

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In snowboarding, surfing and skateboarding, you're a 'regular foot' if you keep your left foot forward, a 'goofy foot' if you keep your right forward. Here are three ways to tell which you are... more »

How to Do a Backside Kickflip on a Skateboard

By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor

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This is a stylish and powerful advanced skateboard maneuver... more »

How to Do a Feeble Grind on a BMX Bike

By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor

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There are limitless possibilities in BMX street riding, but you've got to get the basics down first. Once you've got bunny-hopping skills dialed, you can move up to some grind tricks, like the feeble grind. You can do feebles on ledges, benches, ... more »

How to Do a Frontside Noseslide on a Skateboard

By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor

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When you perform this trick correctly, you'll leave some polyurethane on your chosen target... more »

How to Do a Frontside Shove-It on a Skateboard

By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor

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Popping the board in the air, letting it spin beneath you and then regaining your footing before touching down should generate a few "oohs" and "aahs" from the crowd... more »

How to Do a Heel Turn on a Snowboard

By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor

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A heel-side turn is one of the basics of snowboarding. Master this, and you're on your way to carving turns... more »

How to do a kickflip

By kleinhuizen

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This article will show you how to kickflip... more »

How to do a Pop-Shove-it on a skateboard

By skatingfreak8

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This may take up to 1 month to learn, be patient.. more »

How to Do a Toe Turn on a Snowboard

By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor

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A toe-side turn is a basic snowboarding manuever. Master this and and few other maneuvers and you'll soon be tearing up the slopes... more »

How to Do an Invert on a Ramp on a Skateboard

By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor

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See the world from upside down while you skate... more »

How to Drift a Tractor

By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor

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If you want a little fun on a tractor, you should try a tractor drift. In order to drift a tractor, you'll need to find an open track or field so you cause no danger to other people. Tractor drifting is more than just a slide around the corner ... more »

How to Drop in on a Ramp With BMX Bikes

By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor

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Dropping in on a ramp on your BMX bike looks intimidating, especially from the top of the ramp. The drop in, however, is a necessary part of BMX riding and can be easily and safely mastered if you use the right approach. To drop in on a ramp on ... more »

How to EASILY Fight Bicycle Theft

By Gump87

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This is an article on how to fight bicycle theft... more »

How to Enter a Paintball Team Tournament

By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor

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Get your team organized and together to play where the real competition is... more »

How to Front Side 180 (with video instructions)

By timekillers

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here is a video istruction to the frontside 180.. more »

How to Get Competitive Eating Tips

By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor

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Competitive eating has been around since the first creature snatched something out of the mouth or hands of another and ate it. You could venture that one aspect of survival of the fittest means eating the most first. Now with our abundance of ... more »

How to Get off a Ski Lift With a Snowboard

By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor

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Getting off the lift on a snowboard is one of the harder things to learn on your first day... more »

How to Get Up After a Snowboard Fall

By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor

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You're going to fall while learning to snowboard, but at least getting back up isn't difficult... more »

How to Hang 10 on a Long Surfboard

By nkorpon

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Hanging Ten, or nose-riding, is the quintessential longboarding move. There isn’t much that can compare to gliding across the face of a wave with water spitting at your face as you are perfectly balanced on the nose of your surfboard. ... more »

How to Keep Warm When Surfing in Cold Water

By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor

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The waves are head-high and pumping and no one is in the water. So, why aren't you surfing--is it the sub-arctic temperatures? No. Get in there... and stay warm. Don't let the cold water keep the waves to the fish alone. With proper preparation ... more »

How to Kick Flip a Skateboard

By eHow Sports & Fitness Editor

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Skateboarding involves a number of cool tricks. With enough practice, you can master many of them. Here are some steps telling you how to do a kick flip... more »

How to Learn to Skydive

By David Kingsbury

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Wanting to leap from an airplane and plummet toward the Earth at ridiculously excessive speeds is a perfectly natural way to spend a Saturday afternoon whether you’re an action hero or just a weekend warrior. Of course, to do so you’ll need a bit ... more »

How to Learning to Snowboard - Snowboard Lessons

By hellowy

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This article will take you through learning to snowboard in ten steps. Each step is listed in order so that you may progress logically from one step to the next. You may even want to print this article and take it with you to the slopes as you ... more »

How to Longboard/Skateboard

By Syntaxx

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Have you been itching to learn how to skate? Have you been trying but failing miserably (Trust me, I've been there)? Well, here's your article. After you read this and follow the steps, not to mention practice, you'll be ready to start hitting ... more »