My
company just sent out a list of the activities in which we are officially not
allowed to participate. Thankfully, this only applies to company events and not
my personal life because after reading this list, I have a lot of new awesome
activities to try. Here is the full email:
Summer is a great time for teams to get together, network or celebrate the end of another successful year. Before you plan your event, make sure you understand which recreational and team building activities are appropriate. Remember always. Safety first!
While our policies do allow networking/team building events, they require that such events meet certain criteria. Recreational and team-building activities that could pose a high risk of injury to participants are strictly prohibited.
Creating a complete/exhaustive list of risky and prohibited activities would be impossible. However, these include, but are not limited to, activities that involve:
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All-terrain vehicles (ATVs)
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Boxing (e.g., physical contact, sparring)
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Bungee jumping
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Fire walking
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Hang gliding
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High ropes courses
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Hot air balloons
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Jet skis
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Mechanical bulls
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Motorcycles
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Paint ball
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Parasailing
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Piloting or co-piloting an aircraft
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Race cars
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Rock climbing on mountains
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Skeet shooting
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Scuba diving
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Skydiving
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Smoking water pipes (e.g., hookah)
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Snow sports (e.g., skiing, boarding, tubing or
sledding)
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Use of pyrotechnics
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Weapons (real or imitation)
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Whirly ball
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White water rafting (except for rafting at the
lowest level of difficulty; appropriate safety gear must be worn at all times)
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Zip cords
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Zorbing
Paint ball and skydiving have been on
my list for a WHILE, so those are still in the game for me (anyone want to go
with me?). ATVs ARE dangerous (speak to my sister for that story), but Whirly
Ball? Really??! We did that for Bar Mitzvah parties as dumb 12 year olds.
My
main question is: Zorbing?! Does anyone know what the hell this is (without
googling)? I gave up and googled it. Wikipedia tells me that zorbing is the
recreation or sport of rolling downhill in an orb, generally made of
transparent plastic.
This looks awesome! It's just rollin'
down a hill in a big plastic bubble. Zorbs are so awesome that they have
already been adopted as thesymbol for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia. Let's go Zorbing!
Lastly, race cars. If you have not seen this video, I cannot stress enough how much you should
watch Ken Block's
awesomeness. Thanks to Mr C for making me want to learn how to be a rally
driver. Ah! They didn't say no rally driving....
