Extreme ironing gathers steam.Extreme sports extreme sports Sports events characterized by high speed or high risk. Such sports include aggressive inline skating, wakeboarding, street luge, skateboarding, and freestyle bicycle events (wherein tricks such as back flips are performed on a bicycle). fans, get ready for the latest hair-raising event: extreme ironing Extreme Ironing (or EI) is an extreme sport and a performance art in which people take an ironing board to a remote location and iron a few items of clothing. According to the official website, extreme ironing is . The marriage of activities like cliff jumping and kayaking with what participants call "the satisfaction of a well-pressed shirt," extreme ironing was born seven years ago when a young climber named Phil Shaw in Leicester, England, was faced with a mountain of creased laundry. Shaw took an ironing board out to his garden and pressed his pants, with his iron on a long extension cord. Later, he did "a spot of ironing whilst rock climbing rock climbing Sports medicine An 'extreme sport' in which the participant climbs rock formations, with or without ropes Injury risk Fractures, abrasions, death. See Extreme sports. ," he says. The first Extreme Ironing World Championship was held in Germany in 2002. "Ironists" from 10 nations competed to press boxer shorts boxer shorts pl.n. Men's full-cut undershorts. boxer shorts or boxers Noun, pl men's underpants shaped like shorts but with a front opening boxer shorts box and blouses white scaling a climbing wall, hanging from a tree, and squeezing under a car hood. Out of 120 points, the actual ironing counted for 60, style for 40, and speed for 20. |
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