'Train surfing': India's 'perilous' new sport

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'Train surfing': India's 'perilous' new sport

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Two daredevils adhere to a side of a sight in Mumbai as it speeds out of a station, vouchsafing their feet slip along a concrete as if they're roving a wave. Photo: YouTube

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The video: Some in Mumbai, India, have given a universe a new impassioned sport: Jumping on a side of a relocating train, boring their feet along a hire platform, afterwards unresolved on a side of a train, slapping steel poles, and behaving other terribly vulnerable acrobatics. (Watch a video below.) Welcome to a "perilous" new competition of "train surfing,"Â .

The reaction: Train surfing is an "incredibly drifting and absurd 'sport,'" . But it isn't new. "Crazy people" in Europe mastered their possess movement â€" using around on tip of trains as if they were in a James Bond crack â€" in a 1990s. There were, of course, "a lot of deaths and a occasional mislaid limb." Expect a same for India's "equally idiotic" chronicle of this stunt. That's partial of what creates this video so impressive, . These guys have "undoubtedly used this attempt a lot and still have all their limbs (not to discuss lives) intact." Don't try this during home, though you've got to "see it to trust it":