Bushell's Best: Two year highlights

Breakfast sport presenter Mike Bushell swaps his suit for shorts, to showcase the thrills and spills of alternative sports, to inspire young and old to take up new challenges for themselves.

Click below for highlights from the last two years.

HAVING A BLAST ON A HOVERCRAFT

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Mike tests his skills in a unique driving experience

Looking for something a little different for the school holidays?

Well, hovercraft racing is a unique form of motorsport. No wheels, just a cushion of air to float around on.

Steering around corners is the biggest challenge as Mike and his cameraman Simon Monk found out.

For more information, go to www.hovercraft.org.uk and www.hoverdays.co.uk

EXTREME SPORTS IN THE GREAT OUTDOORS

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Mike Bushell takes some plucky passengers for a bumpy ride

It is out of Africa and into the UK for the first time.

An outdoor sports and lifestyle show, with more than 20 different sports on one site - all aimed at getting families off the sofa at the weekend.

The Outdoor Lifestyle Show starts at Canford Arena at Poole, in Dorset, and will spread to other parts of the UK next year.

The show features many of the sports Mike has tried over the last two years, such as zorbing, golf cross and rallying.

JOYS OF ZORBING: OCTOBER 2006

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Thrill-seekers hurl themselves into zorbing

Not content with simply going for a stroll in the country, Mike tries out the new craze of zorbing.

Strapping himself into a 'hamster ball' he is launched down a hill, only to do it again with added water.

BOND-STYLE FREE RUNNING: FEBRUARY 2007

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Urban runners show off gravity defying leaps and rolls

As anyone who has seen James Bond's Casino Royal will attest, free runners do not see anything as an obstacle.

With London as his playground, Mike takes to the streets to see how he can measure up with the professional Parkour athletes.

AIR RACING OVER LONDON: JULY 2007

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The fastest pilots in the world take to the skies

Joining pilots training for the World Air Racing championships, our man loops through the air in a small plane.

"I don't know where the earth is" he said as he slalomed through the sky.

A DIRTY GAME OF SWAMP SOCCER: APRIL 2007

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Footballers dive into the soccer swamp

Footballers in the Scottish town of Dunoon enjoy the beautiful game but with a difference, they are playing in a swamp.

Mike wades through the mud to join the players as they battle it out for victory.

INDOOR SKY DIVING: OCTOBER 2006

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Beginners take to the skies

Mike joins other trainee sky-divers as they experience the wind-tunnel in Milton Keynes.

After a demonstration from the British champion he has a go himself, with mixed results.

THE ART OF SHIN KICKING: MAY 2007

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A shin kicking tournament in the English countryside

A centuries old tradition sees grown men take each other on at shin kicking.

Steel capped boots may no longer be used, but it remains a serious business for the competitors in Gloucestershire.

A BREATHLESS KABADDI PRACTICE: DECEMBER 2006

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Indian sportsmen go for gold

Mike travels to the Asian Games for some advice from the Indian team on the art of Kabaddi.

The game, invented in India, requires competitors to hold their breath while chanting the word Kabaddi.