Playing disc golf. Not only do my friends not get it, most people don't.
The sport of "freediving" or more correctly Apnea, see how far you can go underwater with lungs only.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-diving
and yes apneasts do practise on land,
I've a couple of hobbies --
1. Horses -- Wife bought #3 and #4 while I've been in Iraq. The friends, mostly military guys who have small yards don't get that one at all; especially after I tell them the costs of:
a. Vet Bills
b. Farrier
c. Grain
d. Hay
e. 4 Horse Trailer
2. Homebrewing -- Oh, the friends all LIKE that I do this and love to sample my wares but none of them have the patience to do it themselves. I actually spend time with my kids when I brew up a new batch.
I'm curious, what is the cost of keeping a horse or horses? How much land do they usually need?
For me I like to make my own wine and mead, many think just because it's homemade it won't be very good- I'm out to prove them wrong! I also enjoy making cheese, although I just started that one.
http://www.horsekeeping.com/horse_management/cost_of_keeping_a_horse.htm
Your questions are difficult to answer because of some many variations... but I don't pay quite what the author above does because I get my hay a little cheaper, do my own worming, do not shoe all of my horses year round, etc.
The land question is difficult also because it matters where you live and whether or not you'll have a barn or stalls to put the horse in also. But there is another Cherry Hill book entitled Horse Keeping on a Small Acreage that suggests that you can keep a horse on 1 1/2 acres pretty successfully.
http://www.horsekeeping.com/horse_books/Horsekeeping_on_a_Small_Acreage.htm
Most of my friends don't understand how I can spend so much time in a record/CD store in this day and age. I Love it. I can spend hours flipping through racks. I'll pop into a shop when I walk by one while travelling. I'm constantly in search of the latest, greatest and most evil metal out there. Who the hell knows how much time I would disappear for if I get the opportunity to go to Sweden or Norway and find a good record store there. Oh the glory!!
For your own safety please follow the rules for freediving, link belowI know this is silly. But, I felt it was a great personal accomplishment.
I took swimming lessons from a young age, so I've always been good in the water, can tread for long periods of time, can even swim in a non-elegant manner.. but.. I always had to hold my nose underwater.
Never could figure out how to swim underwater without holding my nose.
We swim at the local public pool, which happily is down the street from our house. Summer of '07 I finally taught myself how to swim for short lengths underwater, but didn't really push it too much. This past summer ('08), I started pushing myself and was finally able to swim across the pool (side-to-side) underwater and also, to surface dive in the 12' end and touch the bottom. All without holding my nose. Never imagined I would be able to do that.. but I finally did at the age of 38!
This summer, I'm going to teach myself to dive properly.. better late than never!
This one! No one understands it. Except the rest of the crazies here on the B&B of course!