Fear is a necessary and smart emotion that an athlete must learn to overcome with confidence.

“I tell people because people think you're not scared or you don't have fear. And I'm tell I tell people no like I have fear. That's you're smart. If you have fear, your brain is telling you the right thing. You have to feel fear. But it's about being calculated.”

Skateboarding is an addictive pursuit because it teaches life lessons like persistence and adaptability.

“that's the addicting thing about skateboarding is like not only do you learn things within the sports but like there's a lot of characteristics that like you can take from skateboarding to your everyday life. You know, falling and getting back up, you know, like getting past like, you know, mental b”

He argues that BMX is just as dangerous and requires the same level of physical and mental skill as traditional contact sports.

“people look at BMX rid and say it's so dangerous but I think it's just as dangerous as if you're running back coming through a hole and you there waiting to take his head off it's just as dangerous”

He believes that jackass was a genius movement that helped normalize extreme stunt culture.

“I think jackass was pure genius here here these whatever handful of just idiots just doing the craziest [ __ ] they could do and turning themselves into Stars”

Arthur Lopez believes that skydiving and base jumping require a disciplined, step-by-step progression of skills before attempting more dangerous feats.

“it's just skydiving but the progression is you skydive on your belly like learning to crawl and then you learn how to fly in your back so then you're it's reverse gravity and then you you come back to your belly and then you go to a Sit position like the Matrix then you learn how to sit”

Cold water swimming is an effective way to improve mental resilience and overcome personal limitations.

“and all of that put together makes open water swimming certainly in my neck of the woods a very very very tough sport which makes you quite mentally resilient if you do it more and if you manage to compartmentalise those fears and you know i don't want to say it's irrationality because it's quite ra”

Link suggests that participating in a video marathon and watching content together can be considered a sport.

“Watching this together and hanging out, uh, and going through all of these is basically participating in a sport.”

Rhett acknowledges that he lacks the physical attributes or skills of professional extreme athletes but enjoys engaging with the concept of extreme sports.

“Yes, we, uh, may not have the bodies, skills, or determination of world class athletes, but that doesn't mean we don't like to dip our toes into the world of extreme sports from time to time.”