Friday Fun: Skysurfing Meets Extreme Ironing

09/25/09  Print This Post Print This Post    1 Comment      Written by Adam Roy
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Think ironing’s just a boring chore? Maybe you just need an altitude adjustment.

Extreme ironing, one of the world´s most popular parody sports, works mostly because of its incongruity. Combining something as banal as ironing with something as exciting as mountain climbing or parkour is so nonsensical that you can’t help but love it.

These skysurfers from the UK take it even further, bringing the iron to the air to pull off some surprisingly sick moves.

Watch carefully near the end: you have to wonder what happened to that shirt.

From all of us at Matador, have an extreme weekend!


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Matador ID: adnroy

Chicago native Adam Roy is editor at Matador Sports and an aspiring renaissance man to boot. For more of Adam's writing, check out his blog at Ill-Advised Adventures.

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