connect with your body and your buddy

Yoga practice puts a lot of emphasis on feeling your own body, so it would work only better if the body is unclad and unrestrained by clothes. It is also pretty obvious that all those stretching exercises are more convenient without clothes, so search online for the nearest naked yoga class 😉 And if there isn’t try it at home or at a beach?

or pretty much anywhere –

somewhere outdoors is particularly inspiring!

Naked yoga for two sounds (and looks) good too.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xyqjv8_naked-yoga-for-2_sport

But why limit with two?

Yoga is also fun as a group activity, and there are plenty of partner poses. Doing those in the buff, will only make the group more united.

Acro-yoga combines acrobatics and yoga in quite intimate partner exercises, and again there’s hardly any function for clothes there, while its absence would probably make the partners more connected, as it will make it easier to read the body language, which crucial for such exercises.

We’ve already covered why running has to a large extent shaped humans body – including the absence of fur – throughout evolution (in the previous section and a separate blogpost), so let’s just reiterate that running in clothes appears simply counterproductive.

I’d suggest those serious runners among us to take this into account, whether you run somethere in the field or on the track.

Famous long distance runner Ryan Hall seems to agree on that!

While running is totally fine as a solitary activity, it can be fun to participate in a running race. Just choose from multiple local and international nude running races (this list may be incomplete.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xaz7qc_carrera-sopelana_sport

Carrera Sopelana in Spain is one of the most well-known,

and it attracts a good crowd of various ages.

It offers some of the best conditions for running that nature can provide – vast flat beach with wet sand, but if you are more adventurous, there are naked trail races too!

Jumping is another good candidate for sports in the buff, especially when we talk about pole vaulting competitions where every gram counts 😉

so as balancing on a slackline too!

And how about bare and bareback horse jumping? Can we assume that this way the rider and the horse actually feel each other better and could reach better synchrony?

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2n3avm_bare-bareback-horse-riding_sport

BMX is prone to injuries, but if you worry about those, you should probably start with a helmet and knee pads rather than shorts.

These guys don’t seem to bother though, but then they also seem to know what they are doing.

Biking does not have to be an extreme sport. Rather, cycling should probably be the main source of daily activity for urban dwellers, as it provides an excellent mode of transportation too. Thus, you can exercise while commuting in the most environment-friendly all the way! This certainly fits to naturist philosophy, and naturists should be at the forefront of pushing for more bike routes (and rights!) – or are they already?

The  World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) takes place in many major cities around the world; here is an example from London.

If you want to combine cycling with sightseeing, and in your favorite outfit,

there is no better possibility than WNBR. All non-motirized modes of transportation are welcome.

The only reason why we don’t commonly swim nude is because our society is prude, and hardly anyone needs to be convinced that swimsuit is a pretty useless albeit expensive piece of fabric. And if swimming competitions were done naked, it would be less about hi-tech fabrics decreasing drag and 100% about swimmers’ body performance. (Can sponsors be satisfied with their logos on the goggles?)

The largest nude swimming competitions is probably  Swimming Gala organized by International Naturist Federation (ironically they seem to require swim caps still – but that to prevent clogging of the pool, I suppose).

Surfing is another water sport that seem to go well with nudity.

There used to be a naked contest in Sydney with some of the biggest names in wave-surfing.

Why don’t they do it this way more often?

But you have a chance to see (or participate in) another naked surfing contest which still runs every year at Tambaba beach, Brazil:

Black’s Beach in San Diego, California, also has its group of naked surfers. South Africa had its inaugural  Surf Naked competition too.

Although there is no naked competition in kayaking or rowing, to our knowledge,

abundant photos and videos from the Warwick Rowers club make it seem like it should be a commonplace (as much as rowing itself is common, that is).

Water ski in the buff sounds like fun too,

but even in snow, naked skiing is apparently a very joyful activity too.

So as snowboarding!

 

So, enjoy, but be careful…

Naked sky-diving is a pretty common thing due to tradition of doing 100th jump in the nude.

As long as the air is warm (as warm as it gets up there…), it must be one of the most liberating experiences!

Cliff- or springboard-diving is another way to test control of your body in the air, and doing it naked brings it to another level.

But if you just want to test you nerves, naked bungee jump is the way to go!

Perhaps it’s less scary if you jump together with your partner! And it surely must be an even stronger boding experience, if you do it naked 🙂

Speaking of bonding, that is certainly one of the main features of sport activities; while rivalry is the main focus of martial art competitions, there is certainly an element of bonding, which would work only better when done nude.

Ancient Olympics included wrestling and boxing, totally naked, and contemporary box is done with less clothes than in most of other sports, while wrestlers have very light and revealing outfit, so why bother at all? These guys got it right!