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  • After a week of blood, sweat and tears, what could be better than a dirty weekend of mud, wet and cheers? Extreme sports are a great way to get the wind in your hair,muck on your clothes and a feeling of real exhilaration.

  • Click here for your chance to WIN A Day out ZORBING FOR YOU AND 9 FRIENDS AND A MOON MACHINE!

    Board silly

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    Wakeboarding is like snowboarding on water. With both feet strapped to a board up to 1.5m long, you’re pulled behind a speedboat or along a cable tow generating a ‘fat wake’, at speeds of around 20mph. Getting up on the board is easier han you might think, though be prepared for plenty of dunkings. Give it a try at John Battleday Water Ski next to Thorpe Park in Chertsey.(0870 606 1270/jbski.com )

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    Drive you crazy
    Get down and dirty behind the wheel with ‘MudMaster’, an extreme test of vehicular skill and judgment. Vertiginous descents and deep water passes give you that authentic experience of off-road driving. Visit the specially designed course at Brands Hatch in Kent and pilot a Land Rover around its twists and turns.
    (0870 950 9000/motorsportvision.co.uk )

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    On a roll
    Fancy becoming a ‘zorbonaut’? Zorbing is a new craze in which you and a friend are strapped into a plastic sphere and rolled down a 120m slope. To make the ride wilder, add two gallons of water. If you’ve ever wondered what being inside a washing machine is like, find out at the zorbing park near Whyteleafe in Surrey.
    (020 8666 0497/zorbing.co.uk )

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    Wonder walls
    Ahouse made of waterfalls on the South Bank, Jeppe Hein’s highly popular interactive fountain, Appearing Rooms, returns for its third year
    to the sunny terrace outside the Royal Festival Hall. Brave the random jets of water and move between constantly changing spaces contained within liquid walls – but be careful, as an unexpected rinse cycle for your clothes may only be a step away.
    (0871 663 2501/southbankcentre.co.uk)

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    we work, you play
    Don’t let those everyday tasks get in the way of you enjoying yourself. Indesit will look after the daily grind, leaving you free for a Dirty Weekend adventure.

    The indesit moon machine has a unique style, it’s designed with only four buttons for all wash cycles and the coloured door contains a self-cleaning dispenser which releases detergent directly into the heart of the wash.Visit indesit.co.uk for further information.

    Click here for your chance to WIN A Day out ZORBING FOR YOU AND 9 FRIENDS AND A MOON MACHINE!

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