Ever since the first zorbing site was created in New Zealand, zorbing (also known as globing or sphereing) has become one of the world’s favourite big thrills, low cost adrenaline sports. In essence all you need is a large inflatable plastic ball and a suitable track, but of course, we wouldn’t advise doing this at home, you need to go to a professional set up to enjoy your zorbing experience!
If you’re in the capital, take a look at this well wicked zorbing experience in London, it particularly caught our eye as it’s currently on a buy one, get one free offer. This BOGOF deal means you get to roll twice along the sloped track and you can choose from eclipse (where you roll in darkness), aqua (rolling with water onboard) or harness (where you’re strapped in).
Friends and family are all invited to go along and watch at this venue, so expect lots of embarrassing videos and photos to appear on various social networking sites with you looking like a drowned rat or screaming your head off as you roll down the hill, picking up speed as you go!
The Rope Runners water zorbing website offers zorbing with a difference – you’re in a clear plastic ball wobbling around on water! Rather than heading down a purpose-built track, you clamber in to the ball and then you head out onto the shallow lake. Try and stand up and you fall back down, try making the ball move on your hands and knees and it’s really wobbly!
It’s honestly as much fun watching from the shore as it is actually being inside the ball. Organisers at this venue in Essex say you should only do a maximum of five minutes, which doesn’t sound long, but it’s been described as being like doing a workout in a greenhouse, so that short spell is easily long enough.
You don’t have to be in the London or Essex areas to be able to enjoy zorbing, as we’ve found a website that offers a selection of zorbing and sphereing activities around the UK, so wherever you are in the country there should be a zorbing venue near you, as there are 18 to choose from. What’s great about this site is that all the zorb experiences are sold as gift vouchers, making them ideal as gifts to give.
The site offers all forms of zorbing from eclipse and harness sphereing, to acqua sphereing and even one we’ve never come across before, air sphereing. This mad version involves you being loaded into the zorb and then rolled into a wind tunnel usually reserved for would be skydiving-types! Completely bonkers!
Another website we spotted lets you choose from eight zorbing venues and, although the range isn’t as expansive as on other internet sites, there is a venue in Northern Ireland, which doesn’t feature on others. The venue is in Moneymore, equidistant from Cookstown and Ballymena, not far from Lough Neagh and covers a 200 acre site – plenty of space for rolling around in a plastic ball.
The minimum age for all the venues featured on this website is 12 years old and the maximum group size is 40, making it an ideal day out for an end of term outing or a corporate do even. All vouchers can be bought directly online.
Talking of groups, if you’ve been charged with organising the entertainment for the soon-to-be-groom, zorbing on a stag weekend always goes down well. If there are at least six of you, an exclusive session can be organised with one, two or even three rolls, with you pairing up or going solo for your roll(s).
Great fun and ideal as just one activity for a stag do. Before you book it’s worth bearing in mind that most boys combine this with other stuff like paintballing or go-karting, to give a full day of activities. Also remember that zorbing is only available in the summer months, so not suitable if the do is in the winter!
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Ever since the first zorbing site was created in New Zealand, zorbing (also known as globing or sphereing) has become one of the world’s favourite big thrills, low cost adrenaline sports. In essence all you need is a large inflatable plastic ball and a suitable track, but of course, we wouldn’t advise doing this at home, you need to go to a professional set up to enjoy your zorbing experience!
If you’re in the capital, take a look at this well wicked zorbing experience in London, it particularly caught our eye as it’s currently on a buy one, get one free offer. This BOGOF deal means you get to roll twice along the sloped track and you can choose from eclipse (where you roll in darkness), aqua (rolling with water onboard) or harness (where you’re strapped in).
Friends and family are all invited to go along and watch at this venue, so expect lots of embarrassing videos and photos to appear on various social networking sites with you looking like a drowned rat or screaming your head off as you roll down the hill, picking up speed as you go!
The Rope Runners water zorbing website offers zorbing with a difference – you’re in a clear plastic ball wobbling around on water! Rather than heading down a purpose-built track, you clamber in to the ball and then you head out onto the shallow lake. Try and stand up and you fall back down, try making the ball move on your hands and knees and it’s really wobbly!
It’s honestly as much fun watching from the shore as it is actually being inside the ball. Organisers at this venue in Essex say you should only do a maximum of five minutes, which doesn’t sound long, but it’s been described as being like doing a workout in a greenhouse, so that short spell is easily long enough.
You don’t have to be in the London or Essex areas to be able to enjoy zorbing, as we’ve found a website that offers a selection of zorbing and sphereing activities around the UK, so wherever you are in the country there should be a zorbing venue near you, as there are 18 to choose from. What’s great about this site is that all the zorb experiences are sold as gift vouchers, making them ideal as gifts to give.
The site offers all forms of zorbing from eclipse and harness sphereing, to acqua sphereing and even one we’ve never come across before, air sphereing. This mad version involves you being loaded into the zorb and then rolled into a wind tunnel usually reserved for would be skydiving-types! Completely bonkers!
Another website we spotted lets you choose from eight zorbing venues and, although the range isn’t as expansive as on other internet sites, there is a venue in Northern Ireland, which doesn’t feature on others. The venue is in Moneymore, equidistant from Cookstown and Ballymena, not far from Lough Neagh and covers a 200 acre site – plenty of space for rolling around in a plastic ball.
The minimum age for all the venues featured on this website is 12 years old and the maximum group size is 40, making it an ideal day out for an end of term outing or a corporate do even. All vouchers can be bought directly online.
Talking of groups, if you’ve been charged with organising the entertainment for the soon-to-be-groom, zorbing on a stag weekend always goes down well. If there are at least six of you, an exclusive session can be organised with one, two or even three rolls, with you pairing up or going solo for your roll(s).
Great fun and ideal as just one activity for a stag do. Before you book it’s worth bearing in mind that most boys combine this with other stuff like paintballing or go-karting, to give a full day of activities. Also remember that zorbing is only available in the summer months, so not suitable if the do is in the winter!