Expensive sports

hockey equipment is expensive but you can use it year after year, as long as you don't grow a lot.same with skiing actually.. I got a free pass so last season my ski budget was basically for fries, a toque, and a pair of socks.
 
I was expecting you in this thread.

Longboarding is pretty cheap, compared to most stuff. Only 150 for my complete board, but if you get into pro longboarding, it can cost upwards of 2000.

I've actually managed to make skiing pretty cheap for myself.

200 for my skis this year.

120 for bindings.

20 for pants.

20 for coat.

300 for pass.

75 for boots.

20 for helmet.

Gloves from 2 years ago for free. SCORE
 
never did hunter/jumper but i heard some of the classes are fun! i just did eventing and by the time finished HS i was was more into dressage, before i had to leave for college i had to sell my horse and all my equipment, made a nice little nest egg. for the first year of college. but it sucked saying good by to a 8 year friend ship : (
 
sorry to break it to you guys. life is expensive.
some activities more so then others but in general everything can be and is expensive to a point. as someone mentioned to master something you have to invest in it. you can make football (soccer) expensive if you wanted to.
 
Scuba diving; just to get started (prices are indicational and can variate)Trim-jacket (500$)Bottle (400$)a pair of regulators (300$ x2)double 7mm wetsuit (500$)(i dive in cold water)a diving computer (300$)Fins (70$)boots (30$)gloves (30$)Goggles(50$)------------------------------------------------------------------- +2480 $
Quite painful to start with, but once you've got all you need it's actually not all that expensive ...filling your dive tank/bottle costs somewhere around 5-10$ and occasionally you need a replacement part because something was lost or is worn out ....
so unless you go on an exotic diving trip every year it's actually ok once you've completed your set ..
 
I got a friend who picked up a wakeboarding boat and trailer (both in excellent condition) for $20,000.
 
dude, if you want a good top of the line wakeboard boat is goes it over 100k, plus the wakeboard, bindings, rope, and like you said gas which costs like $300 to fill up.

 
ok, the only wakeboard boats that are over 100k are the ones used in tournaments with every single possibly accessory you can get.

to get a decent wake boat(air nautique, malibu, moomba, supra) its gunna run you from 35-70k depending on how big and what you want in it. still really fuckin expensive though
 
Bobsledding.

I went Bob sledding at the olympic park in Utah this winter. Tourists pay $200 per person per ride. Its something you just do once.

Anyways, the guy who gave us our pre-bobsled speech said that the people who compete and train have to pay to use the track just like we do, and it isn't cheap. He said any given day and they might go down 5-10 times.

That doesn't sound cheap.

Racing....of any kind, boats, cars, offroad.

Skiing and Golf are the two most common expensive normal sports I would imagine when you consider the cost of lift tickets though.
 
ya and they only hold like 30 gallons, atleast for a wakeboard boat, and u have to refuel every 2-3 days if u have a full ballast
 
Wakeboard boats are not that expensive. They top out at about 100k I would imagine?

Put it this way, I haven't seen one cost more. Maybe with every accessory you can buy you can break 100k.

I've looked at Malibu, Mastercard, Seadoo (jet boats, meh). But for example, even the most current season Seadoo jetboat tops out at like $40-45k.

This doesn't make them affordable.

Slip = big bucks

Gas = it uses a lot, plus if you buy it on the water, surprise 20% more expensive!

Winter storage - you have to winterize it, and de-winterize it. Repairs = as needed, not cheap usually.

Or you can say hmm, maybe i don't want to pay big bucks for gas on the water, or i don't want to buy or rent a slip (which could cost as much as your boat, buying a slip). Maybe I want to haul it around with a truck...okay now go buy a truck to haul it around, license / tag the trailer fees, plus now you own a gas guzzling SUV / truck, and you haul your boat around everywhere, maybe even paying for storage still at a storage facility because your neighborhood doesn't allow you to store boats in the driveway.
 
Hey hey hey, i had a seadoo 110hp 14ft challenger before. I spent 3k on that thing, and it would keep up with tons of other boats to a point (it'll keep up with your four winns, and shit like thta, but not the cigarette boats), and obviously you know about jet boats. But they hit 50mph, and they have the wake models available, one even with a fillable ballast.

I might have spoken prematurely about the cost of wakeboarding boats. I've looked used, and it didn't look like they could top 100k, but it looks like I could be wrong.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/2007-Mastercraft-x80-Switch-Wakeboard-King-Boats-/110568981737?pt=Power_Motorboats

An 07 at that, not even an x-wave (supposedly their best wakeboat). Running for 85k

But that is yes, a beast of a boat. Near top of the line.

You can wakeboard on a boat with far less tho, like yes a $3000 seadoo boat with a waketower added on. Seadoos work well for retards also.

Kid dives off the back of a boat, hits the prop, gets paralyzed, almost drowns.

Still I would like to imagine 120k has to be the top of the range for wakeboarding boats?
 
k first of all its masterCRAFT then theres like supra, moomba and natique and 2nd of all seadoo sucks DICKS at makin wakeboard boatsAND 3rd there like 50k at average up to like 150k so get ur shit right manand finally its like 4.50 a fuckin GALLON
 
skiings pretty high up there, DH costs a mint, and golf is also quite expensive. if your playing really nice courses it can be $100+ a round, about $1500 for a really nice set of clubs, if you take any lessons it can be 100+ an hour and if you join a nice club its like $50000+ initially then hundreds to thousands monthly
 
GOD DAMN IT MOUNTAIN BIKING I TRY SO HARD TO BREAK ANYTHING BUT IF I BREAK ANYTHING THAT'S NOT LIKE THE GRIPS OR SOMETHING I HAVE TO SPEND LIKE 100-600$ GOD DAMN IT.
 
yea. like i live right near a malibu boats warehouse and i went down there once and was looking around and i started talking to a guy and he told me for a brand new decent malibu its about 75k or more. but the wakes they make are fucking nuts
 
this. my cousin has a malibu, the wakes are the best i have ever ridden behind. Not too small almost in the medium size of a wake, but you get amazing pop off the wake, but i guess you pay for it....
 
again, you're all reaching here, I've already named the most expensive sport you can play.. polo. I did some more research into it, and players need anywhere between 18 and 60 horses to play in higher level tournaments, these horses have an initial fee of 35k+ each, plus recurring monthly upkeep costs, you need to get these horses to tournaments, lodging at tournaments, and etc. Yearly costs to play mid to high level tournament polo range from between 300k to well over a mill a year. beat that as far as expensive sports go.
 
F1 isn't a privately pursued sport though. Everything in F1 is payed by the companies sponsoring the teams. racing isn't "too" expensive at the private level, you need two to three cars, spare parts, and a crew of a few people, who are usually your family and friends, so you don't have to pay them.

Yacht racing is pricy though, I'll give you that. Correct me if I'm wrong though, but doesn't an entire team run one boat? so the cost of that boat can be split up amongst the crew manning the boat, making it not super pricey.

In polo, each person on the team is spending the 300k-1m a year.
 
well for 60k i'd find a good cheap truck and a good cheap wakeboard boat. but if i were to chose i'd get a 60k car
 
yeah. true.... wakeboarding boats are really expensive, and almost not worth what you pay for.. I mean wakeboarding is fun and all but when it comes down to it, your spending huge amounts of money on something you can occationally do.
 
yea thats true, that's why i'd just go to my friends house who lives on the lake and pay his dad $20 for gas
 
yeah thats what i do. last summer, my friend, my cousin and my other cousin all had wakeboard boats.
this year, my friend went and got a job teaching wakeboarding so his boat is down state.
my cousin sold his boat.
my other cousin got a new place down state.i have been wakeboarding 2 times this summer.
 
well, it's a malibu, designed for wakeboarding... speakers all built into the tower was well...

 
ski racing

or rowing if you do it alone, a single scull is like 7000 and oars are 500 bucks, or for sweep rowing for a club an eight costs 30,000 bucks and oars are 300 per oar
 
to get to that level of racing costs many millions... shit probably more than half the F1 field payed their way there. just getting started in a decent series will cost you over 60 grand a year easy.. more like 250,000 plus in most cases though.
 
and yeah, wakeboarding is expensive, but shit, the best wakeboarder i know bought his boat for 14 grand. its just a speed boat with a tower, and he kills it. i hate wake boats, seems like all the ones i see are bro boats with some douchey tribal design or something and a bunch of buff bro's spending all day tanning with lil wayne playing out of their chrome fag speakers.
 
the people talking about wakeboard boats in this thread are insane...

the link that guy posted to that 07 mastercraft x-80? no fucking shit its 85 grand. thats a 30-foot wake-YACHT. seriously. it has yacht certification. its not even a "professional" wake boat. more of the ultimate novelty toy. no one on this earth really needs two 450hp engines to wakeboard behind....

i live on the lake, sure, i see a bunch of super air nautiqes and X-stars in the 60-75 thousand dollar range. but most of the people on the lake throwing down the hardest are riding behind I/O's with custom towers and fat sacs... boats costing as low as 20,000. my group of friends and i are better than anyone i ever see on the water, and we ride behind a 2001 christ craft.

i believe moomba even makes a pretty sweet, no-frills wakeboat for around 24,000 new.

you guys are really pricing out the super-high end of the sport.

and who the fuck said $300 for a tank of gas? are you on fucking crack? try $120 to fill up your 50 gallon tank every week. it doesnt use TOO much gas to cruise around at 20mph on smooth water anyways.

im not saying wakeboarding is cheap. im just saying you blow it out of porportion.
 
my friend told me its like $250 - $300 to fill up the tank on his malibu. and think about it, if a 70 foot cigar boat cost like $2000 - $3000 to full up, why wouldnt a wakeboard boat cost like $300?
 
lol. is 4.50 how much it costs now? i only ever drove by the gas tanks out in spring lake at the marinas and smiled.

i was able to pull my boat around thankfully and fill up at wesco and shit.

mastercard = mastercraft....haha yeah maybe i should pay more attention to what i type.

lastly. JOO KNOW YOU LIVE WHERE I LIVE, AND SKI WHERE I SKI?

and since you have the number 85 at the end of your name, you might be as old as I am. Class of 04?
 
you have to be kidding about biking. maybe my meters broken

and hell, i dropped $200 on a skimboard this weekend and thats like the lowest end.
 
I was surprised how much stand-up surf boards coast. paddle boards or whatever?

i was looking like oh yeah i be they cost a couple hundred bucks.

yeah try again more like $1000+

 
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