Enter the Zorb!
Posted: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 12:00 PM by Dan Fleschner
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"Enter the Zorb" -- it sounds like a futuristic Bruce Lee movie or something.
But in fact, it's the latest extreme sports craze to come from New Zealand (the good people who brought us bungee jumping, among other half-crazy pursuits).
This morning, in the first installment of "TODAY Gets Extreme," Meredith showed us what a Zorb is and what it's like to hop in one and roll down a hill. WATCH VIDEO
Check out TODAY producer Karen Trosset's blog for a behind-the-scenes look at Meredith's Zorb shoot.
When I was a kid, we didn't have these new-fangled apparata like giant, plastic Zorbs -- we just rolled down hills on our own. You could either do somersaults down the hill or roll like a log. Those were the options. This was before the Internet, mind you. We also had to walk five miles, both ways, in the snow, just to get to the hill, and Coke was a nickel, etc.
In any case, having watched Meredith and her Zorb experience, does that make you want to try it out? What's the most "extreme" activity you've ever done? And what do you think Matt, Ann and Al have in store for "TODAY Gets Extreme"?
The closest thing I ever came to a life or death experience was when Death came up to me and said, "Your time has come." Thinking quickly, I challenged him to a game of chess for my life. He agreed, and he beat me rather easily, but then I punched him in the face and ran away. He hasn't caught me yet, but this only happened 10 minutes ago.
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