Too Much of a Good Thing

Horse Boarding - Yet Another Crazy Extreme Sport

By Meera Dolasia on 04/17/2011

While most of us stick to conventional sports like baseball, tennis and swimming there are a few brave souls that like to take everything up a notch or two or even ten, which is why they come up with things like Underwater Ice Hockey, Tarp Surfing - And now, Horse Boarding.

As the name indicates, it entails skateboarders balancing on off-road skateboards that have been tied to a horse. As the animal gallops, it pulls the skateboarder with it, sometimes at speeds exceeding 35mph.

This new extreme sport, which has been around for only five years, was