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There’s no state in the U.S. that is more extreme than California, a wild & crazy place custom made for extreme sports.<\/p>\n
If it involves speed, height, a high level of physical exertion, and highly specialized gear, it could be extreme. \u00a0Expect to find a counter-culture aura, rejection of authority and rejection of status quo among ‘extreme’ participants. Though fighting off wild beasts and performing death-defying acts are timeless deeds among women & men, the modern era of ‘extreme’ dates back to first female bungee jump \u00a0from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco circa 1980. Since then, cave diving, base jumping, flyboarding<\/a>, BMX, \u00a0FMX, and surfing are a few ways people have gotten their fix. \u00a0Are extreme sports safe? Not really….Mavericks near Half Moon Bay hosts an extreme sports event<\/a> that takes place each spring when the offshore waves peak at over 50 feet! \u00a0World class Hawaiian surfer Sion Milosky (one of the best big-wave riders in the world,) died in March 2011 while surfing Mavericks killer waves. Just a year earlier in 2010 a rogue wave rolled ashore during the Mavericks Surf competition, injuring 13 spectators and requiring rescues of several stranded watchers. The problem with “extreme” is that it doesn’t have a safety net. People die–presumably doing what they love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s no state in the U.S. that is more extreme than California, a wild & crazy place custom made for extreme sports. If it involves speed, height, a high level of physical exertion, and highly specialized gear, it could be extreme. \u00a0Expect to find a counter-culture aura, rejection of authority and rejection of status quo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}