Linerunning
Something between ziplining, roller coasters, and Tron’s light cycles, but without all that protective gear.
The Drop
Like Base Jumping, but much, much higher.
Sci-Fi (and other) Sports
Working toward a July 2019 episode of Radio Free Deimos, the final part of a three-part series on Pulse, we wanted to take a look at some sports from history and fantasy/sci-fi that might make the transition to Sol 702AE. Okay, so some of these aren’t...Chessboxing
A fast-paced combination of chess and boxing. Truth in advertising.
Urban Brawl
Two teams of adventurers are turned out on 9-16 innocent city blocks to play a round of Death Soccer.
XCrawl
Dungeons and Dragons, but in the future, with a studio audience and on Pay-Per-View.
43-Person Squamish
What’s better than 43 people running around with hooks? Very little.
Blernsball
Jazz baseball up a bit. Add clowns.
Kosho
Dadaist trampoline jousting from the world of The Prisoner
Wallrunning
Players build speed, grace, and intuition in a race across a gravitically challenging wall
Triad/Pyramid
The official game of the human refugee fleet in Battlestar Galactica.
Anbo Jyutsu
A martial art from the Star Trek universe, staff-fighting guided by subtle sounds.
Parrises Squares
The most dangerous thing in Star Trek isn’t a phaser or a Bird of Prey. It’s Space Basketball that’s going to kill you.
The Minerva Sierra Challenge
A run across the Sierra Navada, brought to you by cybernetics and corporate sponsorship.
Wu Liu
An art form combining Kung Fu and figure skating, graceful, dangerous, and just a bit campy…
Brave New World’s Electromagnetic Golf and Escalator Squash
Aldus Huxley’s vision of future sports: complicated, technological, expensive.
Brokian Ultra-Cricket
Absurd British humor, a game no one understands but civilizations go to war over.
Jugger
A joyfully post-apocalyptic game of “get the skull down the other guy’s hole before the other guy wastes you.”
Arena Football/Jumpball
Football made more concise and frenetic, then marketed by the 80s
Lifting
Competitive sky-surfing, but with more exposition.