Extreme Ironing

                                          Extreme Ironing 

When ironing your favorite pair of pants or ridding the wrinkles out of your favorite shirt, do you often feel a sense of exhilaration? If you answered no, then you fit into the majority of the world!

However, a new trend has been sweeping the world in the form of a sport titled Extreme Ironing. Extreme Ironing, shortened as EI, was created in 1997 in England by a man named Phil Shaw. Shaw first saw the sport rise to popularity in England before bringing the sport to a global reach. Mainly European countries began to participate in the sport, however the United States and parts of Asia began to see it's popularity.

Extreme Ironing today remains as a relatively underground sport with it's main following located in England. It has a yearly championship in England that pits ironers in a stiff competition (no pun intended). This sport has even pioneered other similar sports in England including Extreme Celloing (possible an idea for a future post).

A participant gets ready to Extreme Iron
in a marsh located in England.

As a country, England has embraced the sport and has marketed it through social media. However, British citizens use the same social media sites that Americans utilize, without a stand-alone site that specializes in British culture. They also utilize the sites in an extremely similar manner which shows the similarities between American and British Social Media. Here are links for some more information about Extreme Ironing if you would like to read more:

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ironing
Official Wesbite: www.extremeironing.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Extreme-ironing/103125173061103

Thank you for reading and come back soon for another post about an obscure sport around the world!