What's Your Hobby?

Kernel · 16-01-2006 09:41PM #1

What's your favourite hobby, how did you come across it and why do you enjoy it?

For me it would be reading/writing or cinema. I think I came across such pastimes from reading comics when I was a kid.

I like it because I can switch off completely and relax, and be transported to another place/time/situation and away from any stress of the real world.

Reason I'm asking is because I want a new hobby, and was wondering what else is cool to waste time with?

NB: Drinking is not a hobby either!

Demetrius · 16-01-2006 09:48PM

You should try rock-climbing or hiking. Started both recently and they provide my only exercise.

qz · 16-01-2006 09:50PM

Drinki...

Oh sorry. Don't really have a hobby as such. Like going to the cinema (who doesn't?).

Endurance Man · 16-01-2006 10:03PM

Playing CS

, Bodyboarding ( http://www2.hawaii.edu/~cyle/homepage/wave.bmp )<---, Golf,

Kernel · 16-01-2006 10:04PM

Demetrius wrote:

You should try rock-climbing or hiking. Started both recently and they provide my only exercise.

Yeah I was thinking of hiking... Not many places to go around Dublin though, maybe down to Wicklow and the Wicklow Way... also would have to buy hiking gear... but I think it's on my list. Are you in a hiking club?

The_B_Man · 16-01-2006 10:08PM

Guitar and poker are me 2 faves. jogging is pretty cool too. oh and karaoke!! thats the latest one! haha

tman · 16-01-2006 10:10PM

DJing

started about 7-8 years ago (i think) just messing about on friend's decks over at their gaff/at house partys.
i started using various mp3 mixing programs not long after that, and finally bought my first set of decks last June (good old technics SL1210 mkIIs).
as hobbies go, this is a seriously ****ing expensive one
think i've spent well over €3000 since last June:o
it can be very rewarding though, you seem to reach platueas (sp!) every once in a while whereby you become noticeably better at a certain aspect of it. and it can be incredibly absorbing... 5 hours can flash by in what seems like an instant.

i'd definitely advise trying out a program such as Traktor DJ studion if you're interested in any form of electronica

other than that. games, movies and tv to a lesser extent.

muckwarrior · 16-01-2006 10:16PM

Ever tried RC trucks? A bit expensive but can be savage crack.

Squirrel · 16-01-2006 10:17PM

Running, both my parents did it and got me into it

Riamfada · 16-01-2006 10:19PM

quitting smoking

ST* · 16-01-2006 10:20PM

I play a couple of trad irish instruments

not some much call for it these days though. Im not reading as much as I used to, but when I have time then I reach for Patricia Cornwell. Swimming occasionally too. cant think of anything else

Demetrius · 16-01-2006 10:23PM

Kernel wrote:

Yeah I was thinking of hiking... Not many places to go around Dublin though, maybe down to Wicklow and the Wicklow Way... also would have to buy hiking gear... but I think it's on my list. Are you in a hiking club?

Yep, I am a member of a club here in Cork. Got my gear for around 50 Euro. Though dont let the weather put you off. Youll see some great sights.

liamskater · 16-01-2006 10:23PM

Cinema, guitar, skateboarding, music and table tennis

ferdi · 16-01-2006 10:25PM

bass

Setun · 16-01-2006 10:46PM

Gotta love the saxophone. Been into jazz now for a few years, thank you John Kelly and the Mystery Train. Massive part of my life now, I'd be lost without it. It's great to play, it vents all your anxieties and agro after a ****e day. Even if you don't play anything, just listen. Excellent stuff.

Azureus · 16-01-2006 10:57PM

ballet but somehow i dont think youd go for that!...

otherwise cinema (ugc unlimited card)! reading/writing/art...

rainbow kirby · 17-01-2006 01:38AM

My main hobbies are martial arts and video games...
I've been doing martial arts for just over 10 years now, and 2 black belts later I still love training. I've been playing games since I was about 7, it all started with Tetris (which I still have at home!) and now it means I'm a PSP and Xbox 360 short of having all the consoles on the market.

Font22 · 17-01-2006 01:39AM

gaelic football!
came across it after a returned to ireland after living abroad for a couple of years. played in primary, then started with my local club. got a bit more serious as i got older.
unfortunatley havent played a lot recently but i plan to change that.
why do i enjoy it? get to know loads of people throgh it and get fit, which i like!
try any sport!

JackKelly · 17-01-2006 01:46AM

Play the piano, love music and love photography. They'd be proper hobbies. Don't really know why i like them so much. Don't think i want i know either. I'd be afraid i wouldn't like them anymore!

After that, i like playing games,messing with computers, and cant get enough of the cinema (when certain people hook me up with free tickets cough cough). Wouldn't class them as hobbies

That sounded like a personal.

Culchie · 17-01-2006 02:43AM

ermmmm ... Poker:v:

Golf, GAA and walking the mutt at 6am every morning:o

Manic Moran · 17-01-2006 03:04AM

Modelling for relaxation, shooting for fun, and wargaming for socialising.

NTM

Binomate · 17-01-2006 03:25AM

Hmm. Is it bad to not have a hobby that requires physical participation? I don't have any real hobbies.

Gone West · 17-01-2006 03:33AM

surfing, kayaking and running lan parties.

cartman · 17-01-2006 03:40AM

i play acoustic guitar and since summer i use fire devil sticks alot..
how did i start using the sticks. i spent the summer in holland living in a campsite in the middle of nowhere, nothing better to do on the sunny days

Shrimp · 17-01-2006 03:44AM

Photography < I've always thought about taking photographs, when I was younger I'd just visualise the photos, it's only recently that I've started doing it as a hobby.

Art < I have been drawing as long as I can remember, I don't remember not drawing.

Computer Art < Got into it about a year ago, I don't do too much at the moment, simply because it's quite time consuming, and I'm very busy. however I frequently look at other graphic designers, and I buy "Computer Arts" Magazine.

Playing Keyboard/Piano < Started the keyboard about 1.5 years ago. Self thought, I just play it casually.

Music(More an interest than a hobby) < Again, I have always liked music, it just becomes more obvious as you listen to more and more.

Playing Football (Astro/Street/Grass/Anywhere) < It's the one sport I love to play, but only when it's a good match. Sneak into trinity astros with my friends.

Neil_Sedaka · 17-01-2006 04:28AM

Don't get to do it much these days, but I love gold panning.
Have found a couple of nuggets and a lot of flakes in a spot where the mother lode was never found!
Couple of years of researcing, LOTS of gold-less trips, then suddenly, BINGO!

There's gold in them there Wickla hills I tells ya!

quank · 17-01-2006 04:52AM

I'm a drummer for a band, so that I spend alot of of my time in that.

Me and my mates try to play soccer once a week too for a couple of hours.

Going to LANs sometimes.

Oh, and watching Jack Bauer do his stuff.

starn · 17-01-2006 08:57AM

Making Movies, Making Songs, Fighting `Round the World!, isnt that right tuggy

xzanti · 17-01-2006 10:02AM

I love walking... I walk the length of the Pheonix Park and back almost every day during the spring/summer... Cant do it now for obvious reasons..

(Dark evenings + Pheono = raped and beaten Xzanti)

:v:

Siogfinsceal · 17-01-2006 10:39AM

I love horse riding. Been doing it 15 years now. I do that about 3 or 4 times a week. I also teach horse riding one evening a week.

I make my own Jewellery too. Its easy to learn I thought myself. I dont sellmuch anymore just make it for myself and friends or commissioned pieces.

Also a huge comic fan when I was younger so I do a good bit of drawing can draw with a pencil so I use chalks or ink. Mostly draw comic style stuff

also song writing, reading, cinema, karaoke

Kolodny · 17-01-2006 11:45AM

Cooking, djing, walking (long walks) and yoga (my brand new hobby).

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