[Closed] Other Hobbies

Rugby. Watching, coaching, reffing. Seems to be taking over from the MTBing though... I blame it on the weather.

Photography, but not done much recently due to mountain biking taking priority- how could it not with all this mud and rain 😆

starting playing golf again

You have got to be kidding? killing kittens would be better than playing golf

curling (winter). gardening (!) (spring/summer/autumn).

[i]killing kittens would be better than playing golf[/i]

+1 🙂

kcal - Member

curling (winter). gardening (!) (spring/summer/autumn).

I really enjoy gardening as well. There's something very therapeutic about it.

Climbing, WW kayaking, WW raft guiding, power kiting, snowboarding. Snow kiting?

Anything but golf... Spoils a good walk!

Gardening urgh. It is guaranteed to give me back problems. So bad is it, that Mrs S has banned me from doing anything digging related, or anything that involves prolonged bending down such as weeding, planting up.

I get to play with power tools (mower, hedge trimmers etc) and a rake! Somehow a rake doesn't play havoc with my back. Oh yes, and I can prune trees too (as long as I am firmly planted on the ground)!

Was primaraly a windsufer till about three years ago. Used to fly slope soarers too as a secondary.
About this time i started getting frustrated at the usual sub optimal conditions and hitting a massive plateu because of this. As an aside I also started getting shoulder pain.
BMX had been my thing till Beer and Birds and whilst I always had a bike i never actually got it out of the garage more than once or twice a year till then. As a good friend once said to me Windsurfing and Bikes are a good mix as one is bloody awfull in good conditions for the other.
I think the gliders filled a need to tinker and create. I was always loathe to buy anything off the shelf. However, making a frame is the latest thing on my mind. I have a thread about it somewhere. Not forgotten, just waiting till I get time to put some thought into it.

Take it Golfs out then. I did enjoy it, just not the cost. Just need something else to focus on, as I seem to choose something and obsess about it.

I barely ride bikes any more bar commuting to work. Fitness wise I've got into Olympic Lifting over the last year, it's like a cross between gymnastics and weight training, takes about 3 years to master the two lifts! Other than that, photography and endless DIY / gardening projects.

more cycling.

Climbing, hiking, baking, astronomy*, drawing & onanism. I'd like to get back into orienteering too.

*a fairly recent development that one

Running, tris, very occasional picture taking, drawing, films, reading (does that count?)

Running has taken over a bit from cycling this winter, and I've been getting much faster as a result - much nicer to run than cycle in the weather we've been having.

Cycling will resume it's rightful place once the weather improves though.

Went to crossfit a week or so ago..... bloody hell. Went to a boxing gym for the first time yesterday - that was fun, but I suck at skipping.

Otherwise: surfing followed by brunch

Good weather gardening growing veg taking over my neighbours neglected garden.

Bad weather making a mobile to go over my sons cot using Airfix and Revell world war 1 aircraft accurately made and detailed so far he has 7 models to it and I am about to start on an airco DH2 . Google that if you have the slightest interest in model planes.

Also getting back into night rides .

Just need something else to focus on, as I seem to choose something and obsess about it.

Why do you need something else? Ride more, get really good at it, put an obsessive personality to good use.

For me, model railways.

Play volleyball to a local league standard
Play drums in a "band" with a few mates
Have cameras and have take loads of pictures but that has fallen off over the past few months
Enjoy birdwatching and general wildlife spotting when out and abouton foot or on bike

i was talking to a friend about this the other day....

GF says i go on a lot about bikes, but that is because that is my hobby here in Gerrmany.

back in the UK i used to fly my kites (kiteboarding) three or four times a week and would ride perhaps once a week.
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living near the coast (lots of consistent wind) and having a large field behind the house meant that it was easy to grab my kite and board and get a massive adrenaline fix for a few hours. here in Bavaria there just isn't enough wind often enough, and that coupled with a lack of suitable sites means i haven't had the kites out for over a year.

and there hasn't been any snow this year to enable me to do this:
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I pretty much just waste all my money on this:

😉

Flying rockets / pyros
Skiing
And (attempting) photography

Climbing and biking for me. Gardening for a relaxing evening.

I started Crossfit recently, brilliant fun and you really have to push yourself. Great community feeling like mountain biking!

I started Crossfit recently

I found the chin-ups particularly depressing 🙁

Ice hockey, photography,PC building..used to be quite into airsofting but haven't played in two years now.

snowboarding, climbing and killing kittens, ok, the occasional round with the father in law...
But most recently super sprint tri's, which are just fun !

Archery and video games.

music (no, really???)
plastic scale models (not airfix though, they're often rubbish)
R/C helicopters - haven't done much flying recently, must get back into that
brewing beer
reading
spin class at local gym 2-3 times a week
football

I'm a lapsed hobbyist. Stuff I've done semi-regularly over the years are:

Rock climbing,
Running,
Photography,
Power kiting,
Model rocketry,
Origami,
Computer (console) games,
Skydiving,
Motorbiking,
Field archery,
Reading,
Wine making,
R/c cars,
Lego,
Hiking,
Camping,
Watching TV / movies / listening to music,

Probably a bunch of other stuff I've forgotten.

Climbing and caving ....

used to windsurf but got fed up of waiting for the right conditions !

apart from mountain biking (although at present i haven't done any mountain biking for about a year 😳

i also attempt to play guitar,play computer games.and also have a desire to save for an axial r/c jeep to try some rock crawling 🙂

I have gone back to climbing after 10 years only MTBing
Just indoor bouldering so far due to lack of partners for ropes
The upper body has re-shaped it's self quite nicely after a few hard months. Increased grip and core has helped me to haul away on the singlespeed.
I have noted that cycling for years has made my lower body much less flexible for bouldering.
Oh yes, regular hiking is good for weight loss

Windsurfing.....looks like the optimal conditions thing does for us all in the end. The trouble is, as you improve you only want windier sessions. Whereas once I was glad to get out on the water, whatever the wind (freestyle on my old -poly- Fanatic 370 when there was no wind, Lightning World Cup Race when it was force 2 to 4), it got to the stage where I only wanted to sail my short boards and then it had to be my wave board plus big wind then alas, I got bored sitting on the beach when the wind didn't blow...or rather blow enough. I gave up. My Sunset Slalom is still in the shed.....'just in case' I really ought to just dump it.

Wine here. Buying, drinking, collecting.

Got a boat. Catch fish, catch lobsters 😀

Running
Playing guitar
Xbox
MTB with my dad

Cooking - I spend a good amount of time trying out and playing with food flavours.
Football - played semi-pro for a whole but now just play a but of sunday league.

Baking,
Skiing,
Wildlife watching
Walking
Watching too many property telly programmes,
Sewing curtains/soft furnishings (job and hobby)
Gardening
Eating chocolate

Committed windsurfing wave head & I dabble in kitesurfing.

Looking after my young daughters. No time for anything else.

rc models (boat & helicopter at the mo')
My Kit-car and fixing other peoples cars for fun
MTB and road cycling
Motor bikes
Snowboarding

Looking after my young daughters. No time for anything else.

Similar to me, so MTB is about all I have time for...........usually when my two are in bed.

Before kids I used to:-
Play 5 a side football
Play squash
Go on walking holidays (mainly Lake District)
Play video games (still do a bit of that)
Dabble in photography
Listen to music very loudly
Have a season ticket at Crystal Palace

I have had a variety of ridiculous hobbies of the years. Haven't managed to stick with many apart from riding.

Here goes:

- playing guitar
- building guitars
- making iOS games
- photography
- learning foreign languages
- writing blogs on t'internet
- learning advanced maths
- painting / drawing
- running

Some awesome replies here. Catching lobsters? Om nom!
It makes a bit of a change from the usual dating profile stuff: "I like reading and watching films". Seriously love? Who doesn't?!

I run in summer, it's easier to get out for a run than out to the trails for a ride. Skiing in winter - alpine and xc. And yoga.
Squash, but my mates are a bit flaky, so it's rare.

I play guitar and sing! Have played in all manner of bands, and backed songwriters, but currently have an acoustic duo with the drummer from my last band on percussion, we are called Small Mercies. In the past I have had canoes and done regular river canoeing,have done a bit of rock climbing. Volunteered as a Countryside Ranger and done gardening and tree work for people. Ive given up all but the Bikes and the Music, but I still have to walk the dogs.

I suppose mountain biking is my hobby, motocross is my sport.

On the side i also do a bit of bouldering (hopeless at it though), bit of trail running, kayaking. But generally speaking I just like trying new things and soaking up the experiences they offer.

Field Archery
Pool
Painting/Sketching (Mostly Targets)
Endlessly sorting pix on Picasa and getting nowhere.

Gardening here too. Its really quite theraputic after stressful times at work. Replaced the whole back garden last year and its been good to watch how things develop. A godsend was the RHS plant selector website which gives you plant options based upon your soil type, orientation, colours etccc. God, what have I become!

http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector

Most of my time is mountain biking, olaying xbox and listening to music and handling ny royal pythons.

Really considering road cycling.

It's far too late for an edit so I'm adding that I trail run, it's not a hobby per se' but it's something I do when not riding or bouncing on the sea and helps fitness and mind control my love of fine wine and addiction for peanut M&M's.. 8)
I too dabble in photography but nekid ladies are hard to come these days so I settle for industrial sculpture and select landscape scenes. I also play guitar, but again it's not a hobby more of something to do when sofa vegging, flamenco being my preferred stylee which I learned whilst on an extended windsurfing trip to Southern Spain... 8)

kitesurfing and paddle boarding here - in fact it's now become my main hobby since moving to the witterings and time off has become sparse - I live 50 yards from the beach now so much easier to bag an hour kiting than head to the hills and go biking.

But I love it all!

Staring out of the window.

The older I get, the simpler things seem to be getting (or perhaps I'm getting simpler... 😕 ). If I'm not riding my bike, I'm reading a book - and vice-versa.

Chess.

Photography - usually gigs and promo stuff for mates.
Jacking that in though as I'm tired of putting in so much work for so little thanks.

Guitar - been playing on and off for 30 years, have learned one chord per decade.
Coming along nicely tbh.

Hiking - in a climbing club but don't climb much, so hiking it is. On the committee for years, but live too far away now, thank God. Thankless task.

Babysitting. 4 year old nephew and 6 month old grand daughter.
Love it.

Well, there was snowboarding, road cycling, sailing, home brewing, gardening, trying to play the ukulele and being a general bon vivant until the triplets came along 15 months ago. Haven't done much of any of these since, but I'm hoping I might be able to pick up one or two hobbies again in around 2030.

Although, I've recently started longbow archery, as it's something I can do with my Father that isn't golf.

Drums
Guitar
Photography
Drawing (pencil portraits)
Gold panning (in Scotland)
Darts
Beer!

Coarse fishing, carp mainly, cooking, running, curre ntly in training for berlin marathon later in the year, motorcycling, love ridng my little er6f, a bit of gardening, brewing beer, swimming,

Field target and guitar
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Rallying is my main hobby, with mtb being second, have got a 205 rally car that I drive, and navigate/co drive for a couple of friends in their cars (MK2 Escort RS2000 & Hillman Avenger). Spectate pretty often too, this weekend will be 3rd running.......

In the winter I shoot quite a bit, lamping & walked up/rough game days. Have got 2 shotguns & 2 air rifles.

Have a dslr Canon, used to be keen on photography, particularly with rallying as the subject, but got bored of it, and it's arse carrying dslr & lenses around, my phone can take stunning photo's, is always with me & it's normally the things you don't plan that make the best shots.

Did have a trials bike (beta techno 250cc) for a couple of years, but sold it last month as I just haven't used it enough.

Grow a fair bit of salad & veg in the summer, got a small poly tunnel in the garden, it's orsumz.

All of the above isn't really conducive to having money in the bank, but it's fun, and I'm not skint..................yet. Toying with the idea of getting into enduro motorbikes instead of having a rally car as it's cheaper & would save me £1200 a year in storage costs.

Sea fishing.
Watching Ice Hockey (NHL only).
Sitting on my big fat butt, on here.

nekid ladies are hard to come these days

Not in my experience. Maybe you're doing it wrong?

Hill walking and climbing.
A bit of kayaking.
Home brewing.
Listening to music, particularly drum and bass.

Photography (standard and aerial from kite & UAV) / Video, Editing, Colour Grading and DVD Authoring .

PC gaming (BF 4, XCOM)
Movies (Unlimited card at Cineworld 😀 )

I'm surprised at how few footballers there are on here, but how many photographers we have!

Have a dslr Canon, used to be keen on photography, particularly with rallying as the subject, but got bored of it, and it's arse carrying dslr & lenses around, my phone can take stunning photo's, is always with me & it's normally the things you don't plan that make the best shots.

I'm the same, apart from the rally bit. I rarely use my dslr due the inconvenience of its size and tend to just stick with a decent point and shoot that fits in my pocket.

Things I do now, in order of regularity:

5aside football
Sunday league football
PS3 - FIFA
MTBing, local and trail centres
running
walking
photgraphy + subsequent editing

Things I've done in the past:

tennis
canoeing
painting

I'd like to do more reading in place of PS3 and try fell running.

Always fancied fishing again as mentioned by crossland? Used to float fish rivers when I was younger but always fancied carp fishing. Never knew what gear to buy though.

Baking
Astronomy
Bonsai
skiing
Photography
Gardening
Triathlon

Surfing
Painting
Yoga
Video games

I also snowboard, but not regularly anymore to call a hobby.
Watch lots of films., not sure if that counts.

... ps I run too, quite a lot when weather is bad. But it isn't a hobby, just for fitness

I forgot squash, every Tuesday, would love to get back into 5 a side, or 7's, great fun & really good fitness, and when fit I'm actually pretty good. Played the odd bit of rugby till last year, but it's not something you can do casually without getting hurt.

Good to see a range of hobbies here, having one would be a bit dull.

Other than cycling I...

Run (now), quite enjoying that.
Read quite a lot
Draw a lot
Brew my own beer and wine
Video games
Chopping up wood is fun
I've stopped doing photography now but I'm sure I'll pick that up again at some point.
I'm just in the process of looking for the best way to get into painting. Gouache seems to be the best entry point.

Climbing, mostly indoors but the occasional foray into the real world when its a bit cooler. Rubbish at it though! Also getting back into the running, i'm still not sure if I actually enjoy it but it seems to improve my fitness faster than cycling ever has.

Also a bit of photography, cooking, Warhammer 40k thought the cost of that is putting me off. I might get a cheap fishing rod soon, make the most of living near the sea.

Daughter takes up most nights and weekends with homework, swimming, gymnastics, ice skating, horse riding, parties etc…. but I ride or run 5/6 times a week usually after she’s in bed. I play a bit of golf but not enough to get my handicap down and I also fish (all types) and tie fishing flies which my wife thinks is the nerdiest hobby in the world, and considering the people I meet at demos she may have a point.

Surfing..
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and bird watching...

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This is quite a coincidence as I was going to start a similar thread on Sunday.

I went to a presentation on Sunday evening for a trip that one of my son's is going on and at the beginning there was a Japanese Taiko drum group at the start of the presentation.

It struck me how many obscure pastimes there must be. To be playing Japanese drums in a village hall on a Sunday evening is pretty niche!

I then started to ponder what the most obscure would be and was going to see what you lot could come up with.

I don't have time for any hobbies (in between family, cycling and work)!!

Other than mountain biking
Road biking
Cooking
Dabble at photography
I'm a Bibliophile
Reading
Attempting to get into Urban Exploring.

eskay....what was the name of the Japanese Taiko drummers? If you thought they were good listen to Kodo and The drummers of Burundi.

Hobby # 1 is sleep.

Keefus - they were CCS Taiko (based in Gloucester I think). Will check out your recommendation.

Surfing - Longboarding
Trail running
Setting up new business venture seems to be all time consuming right now

eskay
Two bands

Kodo
Drummers of Burundi

Sorry should have made that a little clearer