I feel that there is a connection between the two, ADHD and extreme sports. I don't know if I am alone here, well I guess this is what this post is to determine. I feel that I seek more and more extreme things to capture my attention year after year.

I think it started off when I learned to water-ski, which turned into slalom skiing (one ski), then turned into wakeboarding. After that it turned into scuba diving and when I found that boring I went all the way and I recently have been learned how to skydive.

It seems like an obsession with me, I have to find the craziest thing to do. The most extreme act. I guess I am just posting here to get yall’s feedback, and see if there are more people that have to have this need for excitement.

Let me guess.
Your mind is a whirlwind or racing thoughts; noisy, confusing and distracting.
When you push the limits with danger, everything becomes calm, clear and focused.

I took up skateboarding a few summers ago. I'm not officially diagnosed with ADHD but my friend who I learned with was. We skipped past most of the learning how to ride on flat ground and went straight to the skate park. It was fun but I'm still not very good at it. I learned to wake board this summer and I want to learn to snowboard. I think my friend with ADHD did take sky diving lessons.

i love sports, soccer me speciality. play for 3 times, 2 hours each per week.

I am a girl and I was attracted to the sport of Ice Hockey when i was in HS. To me, this was an extreme sport for girls.THink about it, when u are in HS, what does everyoine think about? Their hair, their nails, their clothes..... the list goes on. To play hockey is not on that list!

I do still try and keep active, but not like I usto.

I've been attracted (read: addicted) to adreneline for a lot of my life, and doing extreme and dangerous things was how I got the adreneline flowing.
Stuff like snorting 'meth or cocaine and riding a dirt bike with no headlight on back-woods logging and mining trails, rock climbing, and anything that gave a good rush.

When I went into substance abuse treatment I realized that this type of behavior had to go if I was to stay clean and sober, but that did not mean that I had to sit home in an arm chair and become a boring couch potato. No way! I'm way too hyper to not do active things that require lots of energy, but I don't have to do risky life-threatening things to fulfill this need.

I still owned bikes, but my riding habits changed; I wore more safety gear and rode slower. I still did a lot of hiking and mountain climbing, but I took the easy/safe routes that didn't require ropes and climbing gear.

I took up snowboarding a few years ago while working at a ski area one winter, but made a deliberate point to avoid things like jumps, catching air or anything with a high risk for injury. Unfortunately, one day while riding on what was actually a very mild slope which I had been on may times before, I got stuck in an ice chute of sorts--like skiing up the slide at a playground and over the top in a huge jump--and landed on my back after a fall of 20-30 feet or more and was paralyzed for almost a week, and unable to walk for almost a month. (I was planning to ride around the bottom of the "slide" but hit an ice patch and picked up way, way more speed than I'd planned on, and then when my board got caught between the the "side rails" of the slide there was no way to turn out of it.) :(

When I was DX'd with ADHD, and started learning about it, I really began to understand why I had liked dangerous things--it wasn't just the addiction to the adreneline rush itself, it was the state of being clear, calm and focus in my head that the adreneline gave me that I liked. Medication helped that a lot, too.

I now build high-performance engines and stuff, and my partner and I share the drag race truck as our daily driver. It's got (among other things) a roll cage and 5-point seat belts, insane amounts of power, and it can spank just about any Mustang or Corvette, but I drive it in a safe, responsible manner.

So, I believe that its very possibile to do exciting things that you enjoy without risking your life. If you're going to skateboard, wear a helmet, knee and elbow pads; if you're going to go wake boarding wear a life-vest, and maybe a helmet.
And, my .02 (or 2,000 feet) is to not jump out of airplanes, period. :P

Excitement/Adrenaline activate those parts of the brain that are deficient in ADD, mainly the prefrontal cortex. I started football when I was 4 and played through highschool. After that I found running, which does a pretty good job of pumping up the adrenaline. Everything I do well involves something that excites me. If I'm excited about what I'm doing, my brain seems to work normally.