What is the history of zorbing?

Answer 1

• Zorbing.
• By the look on your faces i can tell that a few of you are not familiar with the sport.
• Zorbing is a sport that includes a giant inflatable ball with an opening in the center of the ball.
• Originally there were strapos in the ball that were used to hold the occupant down in order to prevent the inhabitant from shifting.
• Today the ball does not include any straps and has enough capacity to fit up to three people in it.
• The ball is placed on top of a hill and the ball will roll down the hill like any other ball but with people inside of it.
• It is extreme;ly common for water to be poured in the entrance of the ball.
• The water results in slippery fun.
• The water makes it easier for the occupants to slide around more easily and is a good way to cool off while doing the sport.
• Many people believe that the goal of zorbing is to have fun and make up your own games and i agree with that theory.
• If you used your imagination you could coe up with hundreds of games.
• A populars one is a race down a hill. Ihave neve went zorbing but the equipment and the the uses of it sounds really fun as i hope it does to you.

Answer 2

Hamster balls, hard plastic single layer spheres made for the use of hamsters and other small rodent pets, have been manufactured and sold since at least the 1970s. A Russian article on the Zorb mentions a similar device having debuted in 1973.In the early 1980s, the Dangerous Sports Club constructed a giant sphere (reportedly 23 metres/75 feet across) with a gimbal arrangement supporting two deck chairs inside. This device was eventually cut up for scrap, with some of the plastic remnants used to cover a compost heap. Human spheres have been depicted in mass media since 1990 when the Gladiators event Atlaspheres first aired, albeit with steel balls. In 1994, Dwayne van der Sluis and Andrew Akers conceived the idea for a type of sphere in Auckland, New Zealand, calling their invention the "Zorb", and patenting and trademarking the term. With Craig Horrocks and one other investor, hamster enthusiast Rebecca Mazonson, they created the firm Zorb Limited, and set to work commercializing sphereing. Their business model was to develop the activity world-wide via a franchise system. In 2000, van der Sluis exited from the company to return to his career as a software engineer; Akers continued to run the company as CEO until April 2006, when he resigned. Around this time, Zorb Limited's European master franchise operator, Michael Stemp, and Hungarian master franchise operator, Attila Csató, ended their affiliation with Zorb Limited and started a manufacturing firm, Downhill Revolution.