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how about climbing? yeah you need upper body strength, but with climbing thats quite easily gained. its addictive and its really good fun. obviously finding a climbing centre can be difficult but if ones around...
and programming is good:)
try teaching yourself a subject on the internet. for example i did the stupid mistake of not doing maths a-level, so i decided to teach myself integration by parts, and about matrices, and learnt to multiply two 3-digit numbers in my head...
 
Escher said:
how about climbing? yeah you need upper body strength, but with climbing thats quite easily gained. its addictive and its really good fun. obviously finding a climbing centre can be difficult but if ones around...
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I have a rock climbing place pretty close to me :) rockquest
After I get a car and a job I might go there with friends once in a while...

As for a new hobby...
two words: competitive eating.
I don't need say any more.
 
Learn Pi! I'm on 22 digits at the moment, and counting!

On a more serious note..
HelloiamChow said:
Juggling - I can do a 3 ball cascade, but outside of that, I don't see much else to juggling. (Other than clubs, which I don't plan on buying)
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There definately is much else to juggling! After learning 3 ball cascade and a few very basic tricks a couple of years ago, I picked up my juggling balls this summer and have become hooked (hence my cubing averages not improving since July). Start off with learning more complex tricks, use youtube for tutorials, and then eventually (as I have just started) learn 4 and 5 balls! Many cubers can juggle too, the 2 seem to go hand in hand.

Escher said:
how about climbing? yeah you need upper body strength, but with climbing thats quite easily gained. its addictive and its really good fun. obviously finding a climbing centre can be difficult but if ones around...
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Escher is right, climbing is good fun. That's probably the other one in my top 3 favourite hobbies. Climbing is a very easy physical activity to get into, and you can take it as seriously as you like (I personally only boulder, on 10 ft walls at the highest, as opposed to with ropes and stuff. It's much easier to drift in and out of and do when you want)

Anyway, they're just my thoughts, good luck finding something that captures your interest!
 
You guys should play with the diabolo. It gives one of the best performances ever. (i.e. it's AWESOME for talent shows - probably better than cubing)

Here are some videos of William Lin doing jaw dropping perfomances:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPx5qbfuK7I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsRNQbBIwig

I do diabolo myself, being an assistant teacher. I know 40+ tricks and I've been playing with it sincie I was 6 years old.
 
HelloiamChow said:
Music - I play the bassoon. I play tenor sax in the school jazz band. I'm teaching myself how to play piano and guitar. I love music.

Breakdancing - I honestly don't have the upper body strength for this. Tried it though, just don't have the strength.

So could I have some suggestions on what I could pursue? I'm bored.

Thanks for any suggestions.
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@music- I used to kick sum butt at trombone but I quit going into high school cause the music teacher there is massively stupid. You could always go out for a sport, the high school music teacher that I was gunna have was always tellin me I could play baseball and be in band. But that's cause I kicked butt haha seriously I made all-county in 8th grade and only practiced like 30 mins outside of class all year. And I didn't try-out for anything higher lol

@breakdancing- You could start liftin thats one of my main hobbys. Not so i could breakdance just so people won't pick on you as much haha

Also, sunlight won't kill you I promise! You could start running or sumthing or again play a sport.
 
Rubik's Cube Fan said:
You guys should play with the diabolo. It gives one of the best performances ever. (i.e. it's AWESOME for talent shows - probably better than cubing)
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Nahhh! I won a talent show a couple of weeks back with solving a cube (first sub 30, and then BLD.) There were 2 people in the show doing diablo, and one juggling, and they were both awesome and I suck at cubing (relatively), yet I still won! Solving a Rubik's Cube (with eyes closed) just seems so much more impressive, people don't appreciate the difficulty of diablo (and the easiness of cubing :P)

Edit: Just watched those Diablo videos, and he is absolutley amazing. Ok, I admit that would beat cubing, but probably only because it's possible to have amazing stage presence with Diablo, you can't really dance around and cube to music, without looking a complete tool :P
 
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Chukk said:
Rubik's Cube Fan said:
You guys should play with the diabolo. It gives one of the best performances ever. (i.e. it's AWESOME for talent shows - probably better than cubing)
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Nahhh! I won a talent show a couple of weeks back with solving a cube (first sub 30, and then BLD.) There were 2 people in the show doing diablo, and one juggling, and they were both awesome and I suck at cubing (relatively), yet I still won! Solving a Rubik's Cube (with eyes closed) just seems so much more impressive, people don't appreciate the difficulty of diablo (and the easiness of cubing :P)

Edit: Just watched those Diablo videos, and he is absolutley amazing. Ok, I admit that would beat cubing, but probably only because it's possible to have amazing stage presence with Diablo, you can't really dance around and cube to music, without looking a complete tool :P
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Yeah blindfolded is VERY impressive....

How good were those diabolo people? Could they even do two at once? If not, I'm not surprised.

Yes, a good diabolo performance is tough to beat. You got music, awesome tricks, coordination with music, and other stuff.
 
I used to quite like trampolining when I was in school, table tennis was always another school favourite. It depends what kind of hobby you want. If you want something that you can do on your own indoors whenever you want to, or if you want something where you'd probably have to go somewhere (like a sports centre) with other people (thus limiting the times you can go).

I would imagine (although I may be wrong) that if you like things like cubing, pen spinning and music, that you would prefer something that you can do at home on your own. Online RPG's (Role Playing Games) are quite addictive. Things like World of Warcraft or my favourite, Counter-Strike can be very competative (having tournaments and leagues etc.)

Maybe if you could give us afew more details about what you are looking for then I'm sure we could come up with something suitable :)
 
I recommend skateboarding since you have some experience and I can think of nothing else (OK, perhaps one thing :) ) that brings such joy. With regards to "falling on your face": in the past 30 years of skateboarding I've had maybe 3 head-bangs whereas parenting has had me in A&E more than that!

Juggling definitely! Masses of scope for progression and expression. Juggling groups are very friendly in my experience.

Breakdancing and Capoeira are also great if you find a good group to join.

You seem to enjoy the coordination skill hobbies. Dice Stacking? Ping-pong ball bouncing? (e.g. Billy Marks)
 
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