FINALLY, an extreme sport anyone can get around without a wingsuit, parachute or years of training and conditioning. All you need to be a pro in Norway’s ‘Death diving’ World Championship are cojones made of steel.

The concept of ‘deathing’ is relatively simple – run and jump off a high platform, impress judges with a few creative mid-air flips and then finish with a textbook, face-first donkey-flop, where you aim to make as much splash as possible.

Although the jumps look extremely painful, divers tuck their legs at the last second to ensure their knees break the water instead of their face and stomach which, from that height, could result in pretty serious injury.

This year, the competition narrowed down 130 contestants to just eight, whose jumps in the final were judged on several criteria: running speed, jump height, jump length, acrobatics, degree of difficulty, originality, holding pose before entry, entry style and splash size.

The video highlights showed all eight finalists’ jumps, which draw reactions of awe, grimace and everything in between from the fans who turned out in numbers.

The eventual winner was Emil Lybekk, who won with a record breaking score with his double-twist corkscrew into a flop.

Happy deathing.