I used to do raku pottery Its quite good fun and interesting likeing what you get rather than getting what you like - I liked the story about the old masters who would get some charred broken piece out of the fire mad cherish it and mend it with gold.

All through school I sketched. I was given a nickname doodlebug for a while from my mother. Then when we moved to a new town and she was trying to sign me into high school she pushed me into an art class. I didn't like being told what to draw and when. It turned it into more a chore and killed that particular hobby dead.

I did try my hand at wood burning and carving. I had fun at both but at the time it was just a bit more costly than I could manage.

I also have crocheted off and on since my teens. That I do more as the business of life allows. I'm just getting through a bit of a break and picking it back up again. I'll be 48 early next month so I guess I'm getting to a point in life where it will be as busy as I decide it will be.

Horseback riding was a hobby I really wanted to turn into a lifestyle until I had to stop due to health issues and parenthood.

Some of those things I haven't thought of in years. Hmmm...

When I was a kid I did some oil painting and even sold a couple. But, I have been too busy to engage in painting for years. However, on a whim I signed up for a pottery class this summer.. who knows maybe it will awaken my 'creative' urges again.

Photography. Cellphones killed it for me. Time was that each shot involved planning or at least had to count, given the limited number of pictures per roll of film. Now it's possible to take multiple photographs of essentially the same frame, so that the discipline is gone - not unlike driving an automatic rather than a stickshift (stickshift requires focusing on reading the road ahead in order to select the optimum gear).

Cell phones also impose a slight pause between the button being pressed and the taking of the photograph, enough to alter the composition of, say, a shot of sea waves or birds in flight.

Origami

That must be a really cool sensation, flying around solo as long as you trust the machine. Was it hard to learn to pilot? The hobbies I stopped doing for the most part involve sports. Playing, watching and collecting baseball/basketball cards. Had a coin collection lost or stolen and never picked it back up. Was a mobile FPS gamer for a year or so recently and no longer have time. Visual art I put down and take back up every few years. Music is the one hobby that I’ll have as long as my fingers move.

That looks fun, but also very dangerous.

I used to enjoy assembling model cars.

Neat hobby. Mine was aquariums. I had 5 tanks at one point. Never again.

When I think about them, I'm always reminded of this scene in Adaptation, Chris Cooper's portrayal of John Laroache:

For me it was dancing

Flea markets & antique shopping. Kaput!

wow Bob. there's probably a reason that there is 200 gyrocopter pilots in the United States. I was once into rappelling, a friend of mine fell 90+ feet. he landed inches in front of me. that was the last time I went. he turned out okay. it was a complicated fall. he was out of the hospital the next afternoon. after seeing that it just wasn't worth it.

Brave man.

I retired from sports.

Model plane flying ,fishing,bowling,baseball, bocci and numerious others.

My new hobby is cooking.... thats got to stop. Going on a diet...ugh.