You need to relax a bit and recharge your batteries with something unknown and extreme? Well, grab your sport outfit and share the emotions of Extreme Fest Sofia- the festival that gathers the most popular extreme sports. The fourth edition of Extreme Fest Sofia will be held on September 22 and 23 in Knyazheska Garden on Gurko Street as part of the initiative Sofia-European Capital of Sports 2018.

As always the festival will attract little children and their parents as well as elderly Bulgarians who did not give up their active lifestyle, mountaineer Doychin Boyanov who is one of the festival’s organizers told Radio Bulgaria. Doychin climbed Mounts Everest and Nanga Parbat without supplementary oxygen. He summited peaks in Antarctica during the Bulgarian Antarctic expeditions:

Extreme Fest Sofia allows visitors to try all types of extreme sports in the course of two days: bungee jumping, zip-lining, yoga, riding electric bicycles and driving electric cars, basketball, skateboard, longboard, roller skating and other activities practiced by the young Bulgarians in the recent years.

Various types of yoga are also among the activities presented by this year’s edition of Extreme Fest Sofia- hatha yoga, ashtanga yoga, vinyasa flow yoga, etc.

Yoga is part of the general training of each type of sport, especially in the sports requiring bigger flexibility and greater concentration, Doychin Boyanov went on to say.

The visitors of the festival can also enjoy demonstrations of hip-hop and brake dance. Some visitors will be able to make their first steps in drifting. Doychin Boyanov will be in charge of the bungee jumping and the zip-line. The zip-line consists of a pulley suspended on a stainless steel cable, mounted on a slope. It is designed to enable a user propelled by gravity to travel from the top to the bottom of the inclined cable by holding on to, or attaching to the freely moving pulley. This type of extreme sport is preferred mainly by children, but adults can also try it, Doychin Boyanov explains.

He further told us details about the bungee jump:

The first bungee jump in Bulgaria was registered in 1991. Now bungee jumping is very popular in Bulgaria and a lot of people practice it. Bulgaria is among the leading countries in bungee jumping in Europe and worldwide. This is due to the excellent conditions for bungee jumping in Bulgaria. Those who want to try bungee jumping during the Extreme Fest will jump from a specially designed platform installed on a fifty-meter-high crane. People at different age can join the bungee jumps. The children must be accompanied by their parents and have their permission to do bungee jumping, Doychin specifies and added that people can jump individually or in couples.

The forthcoming weekend promises to be quite entertaining and filled with a lot of adrenaline. Come join the party!

English version: Kostadin Atanasov