Going round the bend for the annual Mad Club soapbox derby

You don't have to be mad to take part - but it might help if you want to join 'the club'.

Every year, members of the MAD Club don their helmets and climb aboard the homemade soapboxes they've lovingly turned into racing cars for a 1.25 mile charity race.

The club organisers derive their Meynell Arms Drinkers (MAD) title from the Meynell Ingram Arms pub in Hoar Cross where the event takes place.

Worlds Most Incredible Extreme Sports Stunts

Extreme Wheelchair Athlete

Aaron Fotheringham - Extreme Wheelchair Athlete .

Aaron Fotheringham (born November 8, 1991) is an Extreme wheelchair athlete who performs tricks adapted from skateboarding and BMX.

Fotheringham calls his racing style 'hardcore sitting'. He claims to be the first person to successfully perform a back flip in a wheelchair at the age of 14. He performs other tricks in his wheelchair including a 180 degree 'aerial'. He plans to fuse the back flip with the 180 aerial into what is known as a 'flair'.

Fotheringham suffers from Spida Bifida and has been spending his life in a wheelchair since the age of 8. As a young kid he used to watch his brother ride his BMX at the skate-park and one day he took his advice and started riding in his wheelchair. He loved it so much he never stopped since. He got a new, lighter wheelchair, with four-wheel suspension that allowed him to perform most of the tricks BMX riders perform.

In 2006 Aaron Fotheringham ranked forth in a BMX competition in Sunny Springs Skate Park. He has suffered many injuries while practicing his tricks although he first tries them out on cushions and on hard plastic sheets before performing them on skateboard ramps.

Crazy Freestyle Motocross Stunts

Freestyle motocross, a relatively new sport, does not involve racing and instead concentrates on performing acrobatic stunts while jumping motocross bikes. The winner is chosen by a group of judges. The riders are scored on style, level of trick difficulty, best use of the course, and frequently crowd reactions as well.

One stunt performed is the back flip, which was first attempted in competition by Javi Perez. Soon after this, Mike Metzger succesfully completed this stunt in competition, using a standard freestyle ramp and dirt landing.

More recently Mike Metzger actually did a Back flip over the Caesars Palace Fountains. Some consider the body varial 360 as the most difficult stunt being performed at this time. This stunt, also called the Carolla, was first performed by Chuck Carothers at the 2004 X Games. Prior to this, the backflip 360, or off-axis back flip, was widely considered the most challenging stunt.


Another rider taking freestyle to a new level is Travis Pastrana. At the 2006 X Games, Travis Pastrana performed the world's first double back flip (in competition). It earned him the 2006 Freestyle Gold Medal.

Funny Moments In Sports

Here are some crazy moments in sports from all over the world, hope you'll enjoy it!

6 Reasons Baseball Is a Weird Sport

Many people take the game of Baseball rather seriously, but lets step back and open your mind to the top 10 6 reasons baseball is one weird sport.

1. The 7th-inning stretch makes baseball the only sport where spectators must take part in calisthenics.

2. When a pitcher walks a batter, the batter jogs to first base. Incongruous, but it is a nice show of effort.

3. There’s a rule preventing pitchers from spitting on the ball. They can spit anywhere else they like, apparently.

4. If you aren’t such a good hitter, you can have a pinch hitter bat for you. If you aren’t such a fast runner, you can have someone–a pinch runner–come in and run for you. At what point, you might wonder, is a team entirely comprised of “pinch” players?

5. It is legal to “steal” in this game. This is, perhaps, a questionable example for children.

6. If a batter fails two-thirds of the time, they’re still considered an excellent batter. It’s too bad this standard isn’t applied to everything else in life.

Mad and crazy intense pig racing, we want your captions

Now if you love the world of weird sports then this one you will love. Just imagine getting up in the morning and going to see the best sporting day of your life, pigs running.

Looking at the picture above, the piglet on the left looks like he is looking at the camera thinking “Shit I am loosing this race, get the camera out of my pissing face”

See what captions you can come up with for this picture above please. Let the race begin.

World Beard and Moustache Championships, have you got a crazy style?

Now if you are like me and love the world of weird sports then get a load of this, welcome to the world of “The World Beard and Moustache Championships”. The next competition will be held in North America for the second time in its history when the City of Anchorage Alaska will show off the world’s bearded elite on May 23, 2009.

The last World Beard and Moustache Championships were held in Brighton, England September 1st 2007.

Take a look at some photos then please click the source link below for more info. Oh one more thing “Have you got a weird Beard or Moustache?

Best Ski Jump land ever

Watching the Winter Olympics is always great fun, the Ski Jump is normally the best event. I like watching them land as some always look a bit wobble; well I don’t think I have seen a landing like this.

Afghanistan’s Weird National Sport Called Buzkashi

The photo above shows Afghanistan’s weird national sport in action, its called Buzkashi and involves a group of horse-mounted warriors and a game ball, which is basically a dead goat.

There are no real rules and the goat has had its legs cut off at the knees, disembowelled, beheaded and soaked in cold water for 24 hours to toughen it up. Sometimes you have to ask yourself…WHY?

Have you ever seen a Sumo doing a Ski Jump

This has to be the strangest ski jumper I have seen, I think he is a little on the heavy side. Once he lands you had better hope that you are not near him.