Phil Shaw, known as Steam in extreme ironing circles, is the founder of extreme ironing. Steam invented the sport in 1997 when he came home from a hard day in a Leicester knitwear factory. Preferring the idea of an evening out rock climbing, he decided to combine the two activities into a new extreme sport. Insert non-formatted text hereExtreme Ironing (or EI) is an extreme sport in which people take an ironing board to a remote location and iron a few items of clothing. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Leicester (pronounced ) is a city in the English East Midlands, on the River Soar. ... Climbers on Valkyrie at the Roaches. ...

Steam was the team captain of the British Extreme Ironing team that scooped Gold and Bronze in the team section of the 1st Extreme Ironing World Championships in Munich 2002. The 1st Extreme Ironing World Championships was the inaugural championship for the quirky British sport of extreme ironing. ... For the 2005 Steven Spielberg film, see Munich (film). ... 2002 (MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Writing under the name Phil Shaw, Steam has recently written a book, also entitled Extreme Ironing, which was published October 2003. Another Man by the name of Phil Shaw is the co-creator, co-author, and illistrator of the web comic Sacred Pie. Insert non-formatted text hereExtreme Ironing (or EI) is an extreme sport in which people take an ironing board to a remote location and iron a few items of clothing. ... 2003 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for October, 2003. ...