Top 5: Adrenalin Seeking Santas

In keeping with the festive spirit, for our top 5 this week we were challenged to bring you a post with a Christmassy connection. Now, if you read last weeks blog you will have seen a feature about the Liverpool Santa Dash (where over 8000 people dressed up as santa), this got us wondering, and we decided what we would do is bring you images and videos of the top 5 extreme and adrenalin sport santas. These are all individuals and groups of men and women who have gone beyond the call of duty to celebrate Christmas whilst undertaking their favourite sport or activity and we salute them.

5. Santa goes Paintballing

The most common santa meets adrenalin activity we could find was paintballing. We found lots of images and some videos, of both men and women dressed as jolly St Nick whilst pelting those around them with paint, but our favourite santa comes from the Hampden Paintball Park in Maine, who created a fun scenario for their players which involved protecting santa from some rebelling elves. You can find out more with the video below

Video uploaded by SocialPaintballer

The video itself is 20 minutes long, but read the description or watch the opening for the gist of the game. Full marks for creativity!

4. Santa Snowboarding

Another of the common sports to take part in wearing a santa costume. It makes a lot of sense after all snow, winter and christmas are all interlinked. Still we were impressed by the short video below. This santa has some skill!

Thanks to MattDesmond for uploading this

3. Santa on a Zip Wire

This fantastic video to promote the Catalina Island Zip Wire shows santa travelling at speeds so fast, it literally causes his beard hair to fall out! Catalina Island, which is just off the West Coast off the U.S.A near L.A, offers a 1,100 feet long zip, and this short holiday film makes our top 3 not just because of the santa costume but also the breathtaking scenery.

Video uploaded by Santacatalinaisland

2. Santa Go-Karting

Not his usual choice of transport, but this video shows that santa does in fact know how to control a kart, albeit at quite low speeds. Filmed at Redline Indoor Karting in Caernarfon in Wales.

Video uploaded by TheHumph1977

1. Santa Skydiving

Following on from our last top 5 which you can find here, this video shows a number of santas skydiving, and still managing to keep their costumes which is quite impressive. In fairness this was close to making the skydiving list, but here it is our number 1.  You can enjoy the video below

Thanks to MrtheNRJ for the upload

If you think we missed any, please feel free to leave us a comment with a link to pictures and video below.

That is all from us until 2012. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from everyone at Super Fun Days Out.

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