Sickandmad.com
Stunt, Dare Devil, Acrobats

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At Sickandmad.com we specialize in dangerous activities of all kinds, we are a fully adrenaline loaded website that has decided to provide our users with only the most relevant and updated information on several different topics that revolve around danger, adrenaline, and a variety of occupations and activities that involve being quite mad in order to be part of them. Most people love to see others challenging death in different settings, extreme sports are a very good proof of that. However, not many people enjoy or would even think about being part of dangerous activities such as the ones that will be presented in our site. Those people that many would consider mad, are the focus of our site. Who hasn’t enjoyed going to the circus and getting amazed by the acrobats’ skills, or watching the specialty stunt of  a famous dare devil risking their lives at every minute, jumping a pile of cars in flames or crashing into a wall. We have first hand information on several topics including stunt action, dare devil, acrobats and a variety of dangerous occupations. Sickandmad.com focuses on the entertaining part of all these activities, and presents them to the general public in a highly informative format, so that the information provided in it is as factual and accurate as possible.

In one of the most interesting sections of this site, you will have access to a chapter about acrobats. Lets remember than in its most basic definition, acrobatics refers to performing great feats of balance, motor coordination and agility. This activity can be found in sports such as diving, gymnastics and ballet. It mostly refers to performance done by the human body, however, there are some exceptions such as aerial acrobatics that has become so popular in the last few years. In terms of history it is important to emphasize that acrobats have been part of human life for a very long time, in China for example, there are records that date back to as early as 2000 year ago. An even earlier history of acrobats can be found in Minoan art from circa that have been dated 2000 BC, there you can see a depiction of acrobats performing feats on the back of bulls that are thought to have been religious rituals. Learn these historical facts plus current tendencies and popular acrobats.
Our second section deals with all kinds of dangerous jobs, however not really entertaining, they do provide us with an interesting topic to learn more about. Learn how some people make a living by risking their life on a daily basis. In terms of dangerous occupations we can mention fire fighters, police officers, roofers, steel-iron workers, fishermen, loggers, airline pilots, and many others. In this section we have included the most dangerous jobs in the U.S and in the world, so that you can learn more about them and probably think about not getting one of those jobs. With a death rate of more that 110 people in every 100,000, one would definitively have to think twice about becoming a fisherman in the United State for example. In the year 2007 alone, 293 farmers and ranchers died in accidents related to their jobs.
In the third section, different stunt activities will be analyzed in order to really understand just how dangerous some of them are. Special attention will be given to dirt bike or BMX bike and motorcycle stunt tricks. Find out more about people who make a living out of these fabulous stunt inventions, how they do them, and most important of all WHY they do it. The topic of stunt action is so broad that we have included several different angles to approach this interesting topic.

Sickandmad.com invites all reader to be part of the sick and mad tricks that professional and amateurs stunt artists pull out everyday in search of the most extreme adrenaline rush of their lives. Just like adrenaline can be addictive, our site intends to become addictive as well to all the people who visit us in search of that share of adrenaline. Be part of this extreme world from the safety of your home and get a taste of what these people do for a living. Considered by some to be just another job, it is certainly not the same to be a secretary than to be a king crab fishermen in the middle of the ocean and at freezing temperatures. Being a cashier at your local supermarket or working as a coal miner 3,000 feet underground? Not the same, right? That is exactly why the reader will not find any articles about secretaries or cashiers at our site. We deal with just the most extreme, dangerous activities in the planet, so sit back and relax. Let them do all the dangerous stuff, while you enjoy knowing about it from your living room.