So what other hobbies besides rocketry do folks here do?

I ALWAYS consider eating great food by others a hobby.

The comic art, Studebakers and Pintos, Macintosh, and 3D printing non-rocket stuff.

Just read four pages of what people consider hobbies, and I'm amazed! Is watching football really a hobby? Couch potatoes rejoice! If I include that, then I have to include all kinds of cooking and smoking food, which I also do. Reading books? Avid reader here.
But do we include sports? Motocross racing in Japan wasn't a hobby, but I got most of my broken bones in that sport. Riding my Panhead Harley on the street back here in the USA was slightly less dangerous. Being an adrenaline junky got me into skydiving for a couple thousand jumps, and my wife convinced me that watching "Sea Hunt" wasn't the proper training for Scuba, so we are both Nitrox certified divers. Rock climbing, snow skiing, bicycle riding are all under the "sports" category, along with rock crawling with my Jeep Rubicon.
We bird watch, and hike, have an inflatable kayak that is white water rated, but we aren't. I collect vintage military rifles and reload because that makes target shooting cheaper.
I have a sport kite, and occasionally fly it when it's too windy to fly rockets. We used to have several aquariums, but they got sold off to make room for rockets. We are totally invested in high power rockets now, but that still lets us hike and bird watch, camp out and occasionally I get to recover rockets with my Jeep. Is mixing propellant and making research motors a hobby or a science?

You forgot running and going into mines. And you just added on fishing. I think that's it for us or is Pilates three times a week a hobby or simply torture?

Wayco said:

Just read four pages of what people consider hobbies, and I'm amazed! Is watching football really a hobby? Couch potatoes rejoice! If I include that, then I have to include all kinds of cooking and smoking food, which I also do. Reading books? Avid reader here.
But do we include sports? Motocross racing in Japan wasn't a hobby, but I got most of my broken bones in that sport. Riding my Panhead Harley on the street back here in the USA was slightly less dangerous. Being an adrenaline junky got me into skydiving for a couple thousand jumps, and my wife convinced me that watching "Sea Hunt" wasn't the proper training for Scuba, so we are both Nitrox certified divers. Rock climbing, snow skiing, bicycle riding are all under the "sports" category, along with rock crawling with my Jeep Rubicon.
We bird watch, and hike, have an inflatable kayak that is white water rated, but we aren't. I collect vintage military rifles and reload because that makes target shooting cheaper.
I have a sport kite, and occasionally fly it when it's too windy to fly rockets. We used to have several aquariums, but they got sold off to make room for rockets. We are totally invested in high power rockets now, but that still lets us hike and bird watch, camp out and occasionally I get to recover rockets with my Jeep. Is mixing propellant and making research motors a hobby or a science?

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Making Chainmaille, shooting, hiking/camping, diving, cycling, Anything to escape the monotony of day to day work cycles.

Devin Batten said:

Making Chainmaille, shooting, hiking/camping, diving, cycling, Anything to escape the monotony of day to day work cycles.

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Reading that a little too fast, I thought " why is making tea a hobby?"... Then I stopped and reread it.

jd2cylman said:

Reading that a little too fast, I thought " why is making tea a hobby?"... Then I stopped and reread it.

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I enjoy a nice cup of chamomile from time to time

hob·by

/ˈhäbē/

noun

• 1. an activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure: "her hobbies are reading and gardening"

• 2. a small horse or pony.

I have never heard of the 2nd definition by the way.

I find it a little extreme that we have to justify calling what "...is done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure" a hobby whether it is building classic cars or counting blades of grass in your yard. A hobby can be what ever you want it to be. I find the posts in this thread very interesting, entertaining, and enlightening. Hobbies are not about outspending the next guy.

I happen to have two hobbies that I spend more money on than I probably should. Hobby Rocketry, which includes low, mid, high power, and research aspects as well.

Radio controlled aircraft is the other hobby in which my son and I participate together.

I have friends in both hobbies that spend very little on them and never attend anything but the local club launches or go to the local model airfield yet they seem to enjoy them at least as much as I do.

Hobbies are what we enjoy. No need for qualification in order to have one. Hobbies are what keep us sane but don't ask my wife.

I am a plastic model hobbiest. Rocketry was an offshoot of that when growing up as I always preferred the scale and/or SF based rocket builds to the simple sport rockets. But I have always paid attention to fit and finish on my stuff.

Astronomy, telescope making (including grinding, polishing, & figuring the mirrors), canoeing.

Other than rocketry, I've recently gotten into the hobby of endurance running. Currently training for a triathlon in 2 weeks and a 25K this fall. Assuming those go well I'll be attempting a 50k (about 31 miles) next year.

Underwater Basket Weaving

blackbrandt said:

Other than rocketry, I've recently gotten into the hobby of endurance running. Currently training for a triathlon in 2 weeks and a 25K this fall. Assuming those go well I'll be attempting a 50k (about 31 miles) next year.

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Be careful as every year people who are in great physical shape die from running. The human body has its limits.

blackbrandt said:

Other than rocketry, I've recently gotten into the hobby of endurance running. Currently training for a triathlon in 2 weeks and a 25K this fall. Assuming those go well I'll be attempting a 50k (about 31 miles) next year.

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Sounds like a great hobby as it will help you retrieve your rockets.

So we're all hiring Matt to shag rockets at LDRS?

blackbrandt said:

Other than rocketry, I've recently gotten into the hobby of endurance running. Currently training for a triathlon in 2 weeks and a 25K this fall. Assuming those go well I'll be attempting a 50k (about 31 miles) next year.

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Cool! I started running several months ago. I'm shooting for a 1/2 Marathon trail run in November. There is a local 50K in May 2020. I might give it a shot if all goes well.
I'd like to give a triathlon a shot at some point. I can't stand running on roads so it would be an offroad one.

hobie1dog said:

Be careful as every year people who are in great physical shape die from running. The human body has its limits.

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True but every year people who aren't in good shape die couch surfing. I know how I would rather go!

There are no other hobbies . . . Rocketry uber alles !

Dave F.

Ez2cDave said:

There are no other hobbies . . . Rocketry uber alles !

Dave F.

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That would simplify my life, but I like my other hobbies just as much as rocketry. Rocketry in more convenient than my other true love: competitive Free Flight Aeromodelling. Lot's of travel involved with that one. The closest contest to me is a 5 hour drive. The sod farm that my rocketry club uses is 15 miles form my house. Like I said, it's convenient!

Not really a bass player, but this one was made from the same blocks of mahogany and maple as my Telecaster, same shape but double cutaway, with Seymour Duncan Precision Bass pickups.

Ez2cDave said:

There are no other hobbies . . . Rocketry uber alles !

Dave F.

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As my best friend once told me, " life is too short to experience only one hobby"

Beekeeper

I hang out with chickens

I have a weakness for these amazing things - I guess obsession counts as a hobby? Japanese Meiji-era Dragon Yen coins.

For the curious, the coin says (in the Meiji era Japanese text read from right to left, today it reads left to right, so the Japanese text reads in reverse on the coin from the text below):

"明治二十八年" means "twenty-eighth year of the reign of Meiji" or 1895
"大日本" means "Great Japan" or roughly "The Empire of Japan"
The Kanji in the center of the reverse say "One Yen" with an archaic Kanji for "Yen."

".900" indicates the silver purity and "416" refers to the number of silver grains used to make the coin. These same numbers appeared on silver coins from many countries in this era to facilitate trade.

This one also has a counter stamp on the reverse, "銀" or "Gin", in a small circle identifying it as silver for trade outside of Japan.

Me and the wife drag race at the track in the cooler months. We've got 3 we take at different times.
635hp C5 Corvette, supercharged. I've gone 10.99@134 in that one.
Wife has a '16 Cadillac ATSV that she races. No mods, 12.56 in the quarter.
Last is a 504hp Dodge Caliber. Turbo 4 cylinder. Still working out some bugs. Ran a 12.47@120 with that one.

Love racing cars and launching rockets.

Hobbies? I have too many... Rockets - Duh, scale models, board games, photography...a few others like hiking and 3D printing. Despite what some dictionary says, I don't consider the third least active thing one could do as a hobby. 1:sleep, 2:stare blankly into nothingness, 3:watch TV.

Just hang around!

Ian A Dalton said:

Hobbies? I have too many... Rockets - Duh, scales models,....

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That F-104 is outstanding!

Road Cycling, Filming, and Animating. Also I really love drawing

I fly rc airplanes, heli’s and drones. Including first person view which Iv been really active in, for the past 3-4 years.