With the 2024 Paris Olympics right around the corner, extreme sports are at the top of our radar! These influencers don’t just crave fame and attention, they crave adrenaline. Call them crazy or call them daredevils, below we have compiled a list of the top 10 extreme sports influencers.
1. Candide Thovex
Candide Thovex is known as one of the world’s most successful professional skiers of his time. Thovex uses his platform to show off his talent on the slopes, showcasing the extreme conditions that he is able to navigate. With his success as a professional skier, Thovex has been able to start his own line of skiing equipment as well as technical outerwear.
2. Chrissy – chrissyclimbs
@chrissyclimbs
Chrissy’s content surrounds her love of tackling extreme rock walls. Her videos showcase her climbing a variety of rock walls while also showcasing her lifting routines (because, of course, you need the upper body strength for those rock walls). Though they’re rare and far between, Chrissy also tackles outdoor climbing and ensures to take her audience along for the climb.
3. Broc Raiford
Broc Raiford is one of the world’s most talented professional BMX riders and 2023’s NORA Cup recipient. Raiford’s success as a professional BMX rider has allowed him to work with brands such as Redbull and partner with brands such as Odyssey and Sunday Bikes.
4. Ryan Robinso
@handsomerobinson Suspended in a moment… captured in a sunbeam I’ve seen the world and felt the shifts of the planets overhead, l’ve felt the pull of gravity and the feeling of weightlessness in my chest. l’ve succeeded great successes, and failed great failures. I’ve been front and center and weathered the nosebleeds. This was the first eclipse I got to witness off the highline in over 25 years. It was very strange to take pause from the planning and the preparation, the anxiety and performance exhaustion and try to appreciate the moment from solid ground. If nothing else, life is a wild and wondrous balance of every kind of thing we could possibly experience and there are lessons to be learned from the ground too. This is my tribute from years past, tip toeing through the sky under a most powerful moment. Smith Rock, 2017. #eclipse #sun #moon #epic #viral #viralvideo #celestial #manifesting #universe #howto #adventures
Ryan Robinso is a professional highline athlete and four-time American Ninja Warrior. In a previous life, before his highling career, Robinso was an observed bicycle trialist, his website about page claiming he had mastered the art of it. From there he began a career in triathlons, never having to not finish a race, but still finding that he was craving more.
Here was where he started his highling career. Since beginning this career track Robinso has worked with photographers and outlets such as National Geographic, GoPro, RedBull, and Outside Magazine.
5. Chris – chris.mcdddd
@chrismcddd01 Gopro sesh
Chris, at the age of 17, is an accomplished, professional windsurfer. Having won the 2023 world championship, Chris continues to share his extreme sports talent of windsurfing, be it on land or in the water.
6. Will Gadd
Will Gadd is one of the world’s most accomplished ice climbers, but his athleticism doesn’t stop there; Gadd is also an accomplished paraglider and kayaker. Some of Gadd’s career highlights include establishing the hardest mixed ice climbing lines in the world, setting the world distance record for paragliding twice (423 km/263 miles), kayaking down dozens of first ascents in North America, and so much more.
7. Christopher McDougall
- Primary platform: Instagram – @douggsbase
- 50.2K Followers
Christopher McDougall is a professional skydiver, BASE jumper, and wingsuit pilot. With his success in extreme sports, McDougall now adds keynote speaker, musician, and instructor to his repertoire, clearly hoping to inspire his audience to follow in his footsteps in the field of extreme sports. McDougall’s keynote speaker page on his learn to base jump website reads, “Douggs will both challenge and inspire you to live out your dreams no matter how big they may be.”
8. Ryan Doyle
- Primary platform: Instagram – @ryan_doyle
- 27.1K Followers
Ryan Doyle is a professional parkour free runner and athlete. Doyle is a two-time world champion freerunner and now sits as the director of Liverpool’s only freerunning and urban sports academy, Airborn Academy. He is also the founder of the World Freerunning Parkour Federation.
9. Ariana Lusk
- Primary platform: TikTok – @epicariii
- 24.3K Followers
@epicariii 🎉today is my birthday! i turned 20, so in honor of that, here is Oompa Loompa (v5) which took me about 20 tries to send. ———- #rockclimbing #bouldering #climbtok #rockclimber #climbinggirls #strongwomen #girlswhoclimb #boulder #outdoorclimbing #climbingprogress #climbingtips #redrocks #redrockcanyon #lasvegas #redrockclimbing
Ariana Lusk doesn’t just love rock climbing, she loves bouldering and mountain climbing, making her content some of the most extreme of the extreme sports we’re covering here. Her content covers everything from her extreme climbs to practice routines.
10. AJ Lawson
- Primary platform: TikTok – @ajlawsn
- 24.2K Followers
@ajlawsn Pow lap at Loveland ski area with @Buster Cherry @Christian Ojala #powder #snowboarding #lovelandskiarea
AJ Lawson seems to tackle land by board and by board alone. Lawson’s videos showcase him traversing the snow mountains by snowboard and exploring warmer climate mountains by mountain board. Extreme tricks, trips, tips, and epic flips abound on Lawson’s profile.
