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I’m often mystified by which foreign innovations make it to Slovenia and which don’t. For example, you won’t find hibachi, TiVo, Indian restaurants, Taco Bell, or rainbow parties here, but you will find people rolling down hills in giant hamster balls.
Zorbing was invented in New Zealand, but has since rolled its way to Celje. It’s a bit pricey: 4,500 SIT (almost 20 euros) for one roll. Still, if you want to get spun around — I can’t think of a better way. Well, maybe twirling around in a circle… Or having someone pick you up and shake you. Still, you wouldn’t be rolling in either of those cases.
You can watch a video of the ball in action here.
(Thanks Marko!)
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It sounded like that chick was SCARED! Please is there any way you could put it on YouTube? I use YouTube a good bit on my own blog and it seems to work better than anything else I’ve used. This would not show up using Winamp. :(.I know how to spin in circles without getting dizzy! It totally amazes people who see me do it. Wierd triva on that score, NASA when they were looking for astronauts found that the one thing that people who were otherwise fit had a terrible time with, was being spun in a circle. To be an astronaut you have to be able to endure that. Even to be in studies that NASA did in the old days you had to be able to tolerate spinning in circles for lengthy periods of time.
People do all the strange stuff to get hit by an adrenalin rush. Especially as you are unable to control it. And that brings me to one other question.
Why is this labelled as a sport? Maybe because you have to fit not to empty your stomach on the way down. Don’t know and that always puzzled me.
damn, my bad english
maybe this is a sport, because you have to be fit not to throw up. Its similar with bungee jumping… is it a sport? ok, one can argue, that there you can be judged artistically how you fall. But here, where you cannot control anything, except going in and out of the zorb… Let’s be surprised, maybe this could also be an olympic sport.
I wonder whether health minister BruÄ?an will classify Zorbing among extreme sports
It’s actually quite fun to roll down. It feels as though the ball is bouncing high up in the air but when you look at the video you’ll be dissapointed to see it stays firmly on the ground.I did it 3 or 4 years ago in Bohinjska Bela with these guys http://www.zorb-slovenija.com I wish the run was longer because it’s over waaaay to fast. For the price you pay, it will probably be the one and only run you ever do in your life.These days I preffer to roll downhill on snow. After 50m you could hit a tree and not feel a thing
never mind taco bell, i was exstatic to find a subway franchise in ljubljana. i’ve been addicted to that place ever since one of them was near the place i used to work at once a week in japan. i’d been hoping ever since subway makes it to slovenia, and now it’s been here since october, and i only just found out about it yesterday… i just hope it doesn’t follow the infamous path of dairy queen - fast food places (McD excluded) have a history of not surviving long in slovenia…
here, where you cannot control anything, except going in and out of the zorbI can’t tell you exactly why, but this really cracked me up. I was actually walking through the city and laughing about it this morning. Thanks, matty.Thanks for the extra link jernej. I really don’t get why it should be so pricey. Are these things that expensive to make?As for subway: Praise the Lord, they have come!
That girl sounds like she’s being taken to the slaughter.For those of you who lived through the experience… is it really that frightening? It doesn’t look like it anyway. I can imagine more daring variants of this sport being invented. Like the ball being shoot out of a cannon landing 100 metres away and then rolling down a steep hill. Now THAT would be fun.
Cornelius, can you tell me where the Subway franchise in Ljubljana is??
it’s close to the train station, at bavarski dvor, right next to the all night mercator store. you can see it clearly from the main road, if you know it’s there. there’s more info (adress, phone no.) here. there’s been zero advertising done for it, so it’s no wonder even a subway addict such as myself needed almost half a year to spot it.
I, myself, enthrawl myself by going in and out of the Zorb.