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What people can come up with to have fun and pass the time! In this list you will find seven of the most unusual hobbies in the world.
1. Filing claims in court Court is something that many, at least sensible people, try to avoid, but not Jonathan Lee Riches, who entered the Guinness Book of Records as the most litigious person in the world. IN this moment
he is serving time for fraud in a federal prison in Kentucky. In pursuit of “legal masterpieces,” Riches has filed 2,600 lawsuits in various federal district courts from 2006 to the present day. The targets of his litigiousness were ex-president USA George Bush, Somali pirates, the disappeared American trade union leader Jimmy Hoffa, Holocaust survivors, the Roman Empire and even Buddhist monks . Jonathan Lee Riches has also sued various scientific ideas and inanimate objects, among them the Lincoln Memorial. Dark Ages
and the Eiffel Tower.
2. Collecting ecstasy
In 2009, the police in the city of Irbik (Netherlands) received a strange call: a 46-year-old man reported that an unknown person had stolen a collection of ecstasy from his home, which was stored in coin albums and numbered more than 2,400 tablets.
According to the victim, he himself never used drugs and was well aware that his unusual hobby was illegal. The man decided to report to the police for the simple reason that several dozen tablets in his stolen collection were poisonous.
Irbik authorities did not press charges against him due to a lack of direct evidence. The man said that he no longer hopes to see his amphetamine collection again.
3. Flying... without a plane
Have you ever jumped from a plane with a parachute? And with a parachute, or without a plane, in a wingsuit, soaring like a bird above the ground?
Modern wingsuits began to be developed in the mid-1990s. Thanks to their improved design, they allow the athlete to travel tens of kilometers through the air (the current record is just over 27 km) when falling from a height of 5,000 meters.
Purchasing a wingsuit in the United States, for example, is quite difficult, since the government of the country, as well as a number of manufacturers, require a person to have serious experience in this matter - at least 200 standard free fall jumps, completed no earlier than 18 months before submitting the request to buy a suit.
4. Extreme ironing
Ironing clothes is a rather boring and tedious task. What if you combine it with rock climbing, snowboarding and others? extreme species sports? “Nonsense,” you say. But no!
It all started in 1997, when a resident of the East Midlands (region in England) named Phil Shaw was given a choice: stay at home and do his favorite thing - ironing - or go rock climbing with friends. Being a completely sensible person, Shaw decided to combine both, therefore, in addition to climbing equipment, he also took with him an ironing board and an iron. This is how a new hobby was born - extreme ironing, which in 15 years managed to conquer the whole world. Fans of the sport (if you can call it that) have ironed their shirts on kayaks, mountaintops, and even in the middle of busy highways.
5. Participation in dog trimming competitions
People who take part in dog grooming competitions “abuse” the poor animals as much as they want. What can I say?! Judge for yourself:
6. News bombing
Some people make history, while others are constantly trying to “get noticed” in news reports, just at the moment when this story is being conveyed to the audience. These background characters are called “news bombers.”
The man who is captured in all the frames presented below is London resident Paul Yarrow. Over the course of several years, he managed to appear in many reports from such well-known television companies as the BBC, al Jazeera, Sky News and others.
Yarrow finds out about the places where the live broadcast will be broadcast, comes there, and while the correspondent talks on camera about the events that took place, he just stands in the background, not disturbing anyone.
7. Trainsurfing (travel outside trains)
Trainsurfing originated in Germany in the 1980s and from there spread throughout to the globe. Its essence is to find a train - the faster the better - jump on it and, probably, die after that. What other consequences can we expect from such a dangerous undertaking?
In 2008, more than 40 people, mostly young, died from train jumping in Germany.
Man is a creative person, always looking for something new and unusual. Each of us has our own hobby. As a rule, this is reading books, writing poems, drawing, composing music, dancing or something like that. But there is extraordinary people who are interested unusual hobbies.
They go beyond their usual interests, trying to create and show society something unusual that most people could not even think about before. Such people are not divided by gender; the most important difference between them and others is their extraordinary thinking, unusual fantasy and imagination.
Card castles
Who likes to play cards? There will certainly be such people a large number of. But there are not so many daredevils who dare to build entire castles out of cards. At first, there were several dreamers who decided to build small houses out of boredom, but Brian Berg went further and built entire card castles that were taller than himself. His works were included in the book of records.
Dog tuning
While many people are more or less accustomed to houses of cards, the next unusual hobby is still incomprehensible to many. We are talking about dog grooming, or rather about their tuning, which is done abroad. There are salons for grooming four-legged animals in many cities, but here we are not talking about a simple haircut, but about expressing your imagination. The most important thing is the consent of the dog owner, and professionals bring their ideas to life, doing something unimaginable with their four-legged clients. This is the most striking example of combining work with a hobby, which, apparently, brings a lot of pleasure. 
Pumpkin carving
People who are interested in carving pumpkins do it not only on Halloween, but on regular days too. Ray Willafen with early childhood began to engage in this unusual hobby. After wood carving, working with the pumpkin went like clockwork. He manages to make truly unusual things from this ordinary vegetable. 
Drawings on dirty cars
It turns out that you can paint not only on canvases and walls, but also on dirty cars. The main tools are dirty car glass and brushes, and voila - the drawing is ready. You can depict anything on such a “canvas”: from majestic castles to portraits. 
Sand drawings
Of all the images, sand paintings are perhaps the most short-lived. They look amazing though. This art is practiced by real professionals, because drawing on sand is not so easy. The first person who decided to engage in such drawings was Jim Denevan, a self-taught artist, but his masterpieces still delight many to this day. 
Images of nails
It would seem that artists paint with everything else, but only Marcus Levin thought of depicting a picture with nails. Today this Briton has many followers who create unusual paintings just with nails. This work is hard and painstaking, because one small but incorrectly hammered nail can ruin the whole picture. 
Pencil sculptures
There are many miniature masters in the world who create their masterpieces on the points of pencils. The founder of such art is Dalton Getty, who for a long time cuts unusual things out of pencils. 
Here are the most unusual hobbies that cause a storm of emotions and delight among those around you. Or maybe you have also heard about some non-standard hobbies?
The strangest and most unusual hobbies in the world: video review
Good day, dear schoolchildren and parents!
After surfing the Internet, I found interesting articles about hobby different people, to which they devote their free time from work, and sometimes their whole lives. Sometimes found favorite hobby absorbs a person so much that it becomes the main one in which the craftsman achieves the highest mastery.
I have selected the top ten, which includes unusual hobbies of people in different countries ah, which seemed to me the most interesting and causing delight and surprise.
Lesson plan:
Wood sculptures
Many people are passionate about the ancient Chinese craft, but a master from China, Zheng Chunhui, was able to build the most long sculpture in the world from solid wood - more than 12 meters. The work was completed about 3 meters high in the form of a wooden copy Chinese painting"Along the River During the Qingming Time", created over a thousand years ago.
The author worked for four years, carving rivers, people, animals, forests, boats and even entire villages on wood canvas. As a result, more than 550 human figures settled on the sculpture. For his work, Zheng Chonghui received a certificate from the Guinness Book of Records.
Sculptures on pencil
Unusual hobby American artist and sculptor Dalton Getty. For 25 years he has been interested in carving... It's hard to believe - pencil lead!
He has achieved such skill that he makes masterpieces of miniature size from fragile material. Moreover, he does not use magnifying glasses while working. His working arsenal includes only a blade, sewing needles and a knife.
The most painstaking work to which he devoted two and a half years was a miniature of a pencil with a chain.
Few people believe that it is made from one lead without gluing. How he does it? As Dalton himself says, he never sells his wonderful creations, but gives them to his friends.
Paintings with nails
Each of us imagines how to hammer an ordinary nail, but the British Marcus Levin can not only hammer it into a wall, but also knows how to approach this process creatively, creating artistic masterpieces from building material. At least fifteen thousand nails and one hammer are all that the master needs so that in three days – at most a month – another work of art will be born.
Marcus “paints” his iron paintings by hand, like any other artist, without preliminary sketches. Pioneer of this artistic direction under the name “Nail sculpture” I began to enthusiastically engage in a hobby since 2005. Today, his favorite activity brings the artist a good income - his paintings are successfully sold, and at a price of about $40,000.
Sand drawings
American surfer Jim Denevan has a unique hobby, which, alas, is short-lived - he paints his amazing paintings on the beach sand.
During his 18 years of creativity, he used rakes and wooden sticks to decorate more than a hundred beaches around the world. Begins creative process immediately after low tide, so that by the time the sea water returns, the drawing will be ready.
When creating sand paintings, Jim does not resort to measuring instruments or mathematical calculations of distances, doing everything “by eye”, as his heart dictates. Would you feel sorry for a job that is swallowed by a sea wave at high tide? But the artist has a philosophical attitude towards the process of nature’s destruction of his works, calling it an integral part of creativity.
See the works sand art possible only during their creation or already in photographs.
Microminiatures
There are craftsmen in Russia too. Thus, the modern Tula “Lefty” Nikolai Aldunin is interested in creating tiny metal miniatures.
Being a mechanic by training, he achieved such skill that he was able to make a rifle the size of a grain of rice, shod a flea with gold shoes under a microscope, placed a golden saddle on it, placed camels in the eye of a needle and placed a T-34 tank on the longitudinal sections of an apple seed. and the Ostankino tower with a height of 6.3 mm.
Metal embroidery
Many girls know how to cross stitch, adding details stitch by stitch. fabric painting. But the Lithuanian craftswoman Severija Insirauskaitė is interested in metal embroidery.
To do this, she takes a man's tool - a drill, makes holes, and then cross-stitches the patterns. Her creative collection includes beautifully decorated buckets and shovels, car hoods and doors.
Card pieces
Playing cards - not very good useful activity, but the playing pictures themselves can be very useful if you start building.
American Bert McLane became famous architect thanks to playing cards, from which he built a five-story house at the age of 5. If you have enough patience, you can try your hand at building at least a three-story building. But the talented Bert honed his skills by building pyramids and copies of American skyscrapers from maps. His hobby led him to world fame.
Government Saudi Arabia gave the order to Bert to build a card copy of the royal high-rise complex. In a month and a half and a fee of 1.5 million dollars, the card builder built an object 15.3 meters long and 3.5 meters high, using 4,351 decks of cards.
Pooktre
This is the art of growing plants and trees of a certain shape in order to create natural sculptures from them.
This hobby can be boasted by the spouses Peter Cook and Becky Northey, who began their work by growing wooden chair, directing the growth of trees in a given trajectory. For their work, sculptors use garden plum and bird cherry.
They do not tell their secret of painstaking intervention in nature, creating intricate images year after year.
Star fever
Who has any hobby, but the British Paul Yarrow will spend his day in vain if he doesn’t flash in the background during television filming.
His bald head and corpulent body, invariably dressed in a beige sweater, have become so familiar to viewers of the famous TV channels Sky News, BBC, Channel 4, ITV and others that reporting without the usual “behind the scenes” worker is already losing its appeal. Paul's unusual passion for always being on camera made him a TV star.
Riding on attractions
American old man Vic Clement, aged about 80, prolongs his youth with his hobby. Do you think so?
He gets an emotional ride on a roller coaster, flying at breakneck speed at least 20 times during each visit to the amusement park. The extreme sports enthusiast counted about 4,000 flights high into the air, confirming his records with saved receipts. Vic set an absolute record on the wooden Jack Rabbit attraction, riding as many as 90 times in one sitting.
These are the most unusual hobbies of people from different countries. By the way, this interesting information can be used to develop unusual school project. Do you agree?
What do you do in your free time from studying? Tell us in the comments and maybe someone will tell you about you in their research project.
Good luck in your studies!
Evgenia Klimkovich.
Everyone puts their own meaning into the concept of “unusual hobby”. For some it is collecting vintage stamps or expensive wine, for others it is rock climbing. And some even understand this as watching UFOs or hunting for tornadoes and tornadoes.
Over the past few years, the list of common hobbies has been replenished with a dozen amazing and slightly frightening hobbies, which not everyone dares to get involved with. I have prepared for you a selection of unusual hobbies that you probably haven’t heard of.
TV bombing About this non-trivial way to while away free time The world found out thanks to London resident Paul Yarrow. For the past five years, a man has been entertaining himself by “hunting” for television reporters. To be more precise, Paul is looking around the city film crews and during a live broadcast or recording of a “stand-up” (when the journalist speaks to the camera) he stands like an idol in the background. Essentially, the joker brought out new level The art of “photobombing,” popular on the Internet, is invading other people’s photographs.
Over the years of hunting, the Briton appeared in hundreds of stories. Thanks to his unusual hobby, Paul became London celebrity. The man himself calls himself “the fat guy from the background.” Paul’s plans are to get into the popular UK reality show Celebrity Big Brother.
Dead man game
IT engineer from Ohio (USA) Chuck Lamb became interested in an unusual hobby in 2005 after watching a detective series with his wife Tonya. The man, unexpectedly for himself, decided that he wanted, like the actors in the film, to “play dead.” No sooner said than done. Together with his wife, Chuck came up with several images and conducted a test photo shoot. Best pictures, in which he appeared killed different ways, the couple published on a website specially created for this case. 
Further more. Chuck became so addicted to playing dead that he began to devote almost all his free time to his new hobby. The wasted days were not in vain - soon the lover of pretending to be killed was noticed. The number of site views increased to 50 million. Success pushed the couple to develop new subjects for photo shoots and new photographs. 
After some time original hobby the men appreciated the local television companies, and Chuck was invited to participate in the filming of crime series. Of course, as an actor who will play murdered people. This is how the American’s hobby grew into an interesting and, most importantly, profitable part-time job. A day of filming for Chuck Lamb costs $1,500.
Hunting for tornadoes
Chuck Lamb, although he has to wallow in pools of blood (fake blood, of course), nevertheless, he does not risk his life. The man’s hobby is quite harmless. The same cannot be said about professional photographer from the USA Mike Hollingshead. In his spare time, he hunts for tornadoes. True, unlike the most famous tornado catcher, researcher Tim Samars, who died while chasing another wind monster in 2013, Mike does not seek to look inside a tornado. His goal is spectacular photographs. 
Mike searches for tornadoes on his own. He chases them all over the country in his car, often recording videos.
Over the years of such hunting, Mike has collected an impressive collection of stunning photographs. And, most importantly, he managed to turn his dangerous hobby into the main source of income. Today the photographer collaborates with leading travel publications and wildlife, in particular, with the authoritative National Geographic magazine.
Coloring animals
The hobby, which will be discussed below, appeared in early 2010 in China. The creators of a new type of pastime were local dog breeders and groomers. Dog lovers began to paint their pets with colored paints and cut their hair in such a way that as a result they looked like exotic animals.
To be fair, it is worth noting that the Chinese borrowed the idea of painting dogs from the Americans. However, the hobby of dog breeders from the USA has a slightly different slant - unlike their colleagues from the Middle Kingdom, they simply paint their pets’ fur coats in bright colors without turning them into wild animals, such as tigers and pandas.
Before becoming a tiger, this adorable dog was known locally as a golden retriever. 
And these teddy bears were just ordinary chow-chows before their transformation. 
This unusual hobby of dog breeders has become so popular that in some provinces they began to organize thematic festivals and exhibitions of purebred dogs with “makeup” to look like wild animals. 
Conducting insect fights
If in China pets are painted for fun, then in Thailand they are pitted against each other. In the literal sense of the word. True, it is not dogs that are used here, but large beetles. Something like this. 
We are talking about holding public insect fights. An unusual hobby has existed in Thailand for a long time. The beetles for the fight are carefully selected (as a rule, they are caught in the surrounding forests) and, interestingly, pass preliminary preparation- are training. Large individuals are most valued. The battle ground is a wide log, with the public gawking at it from both sides. 
To prevent the beetles from relaxing and being distracted from the fight, trainers (that is, owners) egg them on with wooden sticks. 
Every year, Thais, passionate about this unusual hobby, take part in a local festival, where the strongest fighting beetles are determined during short fights, and their owners earn money from the public’s bets.
Swimming in giant pumpkins
But farmers, and simply lovers of the gardening theme in the USA and Germany, practice a hobby associated with swimming races in real pumpkins. Unusual way Spending free time appeared thanks to the autumn harvest festival, which takes place here in September-October. To participate in the race you must provide your vehicle, namely a pumpkin weighing at least 90 kilograms. Something like this. 
After the expert commission weighs and measures the pumpkin, the pulp is removed from it. As a result, the “pot-bellied” one turns into a single-seater boat. Race participants have the right to decorate the fruit at their own discretion. 
Once the pumpkins are prepared and registered, the swim begins. The distance, by the way, is small - from 800 to 1000 meters. But it only seems that overcoming such a path is a piece of cake. Balancing in a giant pumpkin that keeps trying to tip over is not so easy.
Perhaps the biggest drawback of the pumpkin hobby is the inability to do it constantly. An unusual regatta is held once a year, but in order to take part in it you need to work for several months - to grow a potential boat, without having a guarantee that it will reach the required size. However, back side Pumpkin race fans won't be deterred by the medals.
An unusual hobby is certainly a pleasant way to while away your free time. However, such entertainment is not suitable for everyone - they are too extraordinary. Obviously, this is why most people prefer calmer and simple entertainment. For example, fishing. In Russia, by the way, this way of spending time, according to a recent VTsIOM survey, is the most popular.
Well, the most rare and at the same time expensive hobby all over the world from year to year remains buying and collecting rare objects of art. We talked about what rich people from different countries, fixated on this hobby, spend their money on in our last review - “Would you buy this? The most expensive art objects sold under the hammer.”
21.07.2013
A hobby is a hobby on which you spend your free time. And there are a lot of such pastimes. Maybe interesting hobbies , it relieves stress or gives you the opportunity to step away from reality, at least for a short time. But the fact that it gives pleasure is a fact. Fishing, hunting, stamps, coins can be classified as common hobbies. However, collecting coins in dollars or, at worst, in rubles, the same activity is not entirely ordinary, you will agree. But in this scenario, we will look at hobbies of a slightly different kind. This is the Top 10 The most unusual hobbies interesting hobbies.
No. 10. This hobby was called good
Many people who have extra money do charity work. Not bad at all. But then one “comrade” appeared who turned this good deed into a hobby. His name is Reed Sandridge. After he was fired from his job, he decided to give money to everyone who needed it. Reed gives ten dollars a day to those in need. And then he writes in his notebook about this good deed. Original, right? Not a single good deed should be left unaccounted for. I wonder how long it will last.
No. 9. This is an interesting hobby - dog grooming.
After a haircut, it can be very interesting to look at your handiwork. What the dogs themselves would do if they could appreciate the creativity of some groomers. Eat great amount various competitions in which our cute four-legged friends participate. And everything in them should be perfect, as Chekhov himself said (though not in this regard): physical training, training, etc. But an original haircut, or, as they say now, “glamorous”, should also be present. Owners can allow their pets to look “stunning.” Nowadays this type of hobby is very common. And it is considered very unusual.
No. 8. This is an interesting hobby - cards
Cards and related games are not a very good hobby. Disastrous, one might say. But, there are options. Architecture, wealth and fame. What do the cards have to do with it? One man from Los Angeles proved that by combining all this into one whole, you can live happily ever after. He's just building houses of cards.
No. 7. Train license plates
There are people who like to take notes and write things down. Some do it professionally. What if it's a hobby? For example: the number of a train that left a certain station and its route. Unusual? However, these people are becoming more and more numerous. And so all over the world. It should be noted that such a hobby has its advantages, since it requires concentration and attentiveness.
No. 6. Extreme ironing
There are extreme sports, recreation in the same sense is present, and it is becoming more and more popular every day. But ironing clothes on some rock? You also need to drag the ironing board and some underwear in there. Insurance, i.e. a safety rope, a hundred meters above sea level and calmly smooth out the accumulated things in a suspended state. How do you like this? interesting hobby
? The most interesting thing is that a large number of people are passionate about this hobby.
No. 5. Polishing the dirt
Another unusual hobby. In a country where the seasons change exactly on schedule, i.e. sunbathe in summer and play snowballs in winter, it’s not hard to imagine suitable occupation. What if they only see winter in movies and don’t know where to start building a snowman? And here you can come up with something interesting if you approach this issue creatively. Dirt, of course, is everywhere. Rolling a ball from this “product” is very simple, but this process is done manually. But the fate of the ball does not end there. They begin to polish him. And they bring it to perfect condition. Some "mud" balls become works of art that are sold and, most interestingly, bought.
#4: Collecting Milk Bottles
There lives a guy on earth whose name is Pavel. It seems like nothing supernatural. But he really loves milk. “What a miracle,” our near ancestors would say. Many people love this product for its properties. Only Pavel also collects milk bottles. And there are already more than 10,000 of them. And this collection of bottles is considered the largest. Pavel himself wants to open a museum where he will display all this wealth.
No. 3. Cutting figures from soap
One sculptor answered the question: how does he create such masterpieces? — I answered: I just take a stone and remove everything unnecessary. The same can be said about those who make something from wood or metal. How do you like soap carving? The most interesting thing is that the resulting figures are very unusual. True, how to “wash them away” later, because the beauty will go away.
No. 2. Pictures from cassette tape
Does anyone else remember audio cassettes? It may be objected that this is already ancient history, no one wants. But no! Especially if talented person, whose imagination is fine. It turns out that you can make a picture from this tape. Since the material is elastic, there is plenty of room for imagination. Similar works often appear on the Internet, from which we can conclude that not so few people are passionate about this hobby. Second place Top 10 Unusual hobbies interesting hobbies .
No. 1. This hobby is very unusual, but...
There is a resident in Norway whose name is Kari. She doesn't have her usual hobby: she cleans up trash. What's surprising? There is even such a profession - garbage collector. Yes, but not so. She collects what the sea waves throw ashore. She has been doing this for 20 years. And one day Kari found a piece of jewelry that was 2500 years old. Well, what is it called?
