extreme sports rita selimi. background extreme sports - also known as lifestyle sports - have roots...
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Extreme Sports
Rita Selimi
Background• Extreme sports - also known as lifestyle sports
- have roots in 1960s and have been growing fast since the late 1980s.
• Extreme sports offer the opportunity to shape the path for individuals which like to find out where their limits lie. Lifestyle sports provide more individualized ways of pushing yourself.
• There is no winning and losing in these sports and there is very little organization into teams or leagues.
…• Research by “American Sports Data” found that new-
style sports such as snowboarding, paintballing and artificial wall climbing have increased in popularity while traditional sports decreased.
• Given the high-adrenaline image, it's unsurprising that male 15 to 24 year-olds are the prime market for extreme sports. In the UK, 23 per cent of 11 to 19 year-olds participated in mountain biking and 27 per cent did skateboarding. Some extreme sports such as BASE jumping include middle aged people too.
• Extreme sports can also enable people to confront fears.
• BASE JumpingIs very extreme activity that includes a parachute to jump from fixed objects, with unopened parachute like skydiving. The short form “B.A.S.E.” stands for: Building, Antenna, Span, Earth – four categories of objects from which jumpers can jump
Examples of Extreme Sports
Examples of Extreme Sports
• Extreme MotorsportsIncludes activities like super-cross, motocross, freestyle motocross etc.
• Extreme canoeing and RaftingThese extreme guys race specialized canoes and kayaks down a dangerous whitewater rivers.
Examples of Extreme Sports
• Ice Climbing Is the activity of ascending ice formations
• Mounting Climbing Is often called Alpinism, which implies climbing high mountains with difficulty such as the Alpines.
Examples of Extreme Sports
• Extreme Biking Is a sport which consists of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough territory, using specially adapted bikes.
Examples of Extreme Sports
• Paragliding(PARAGLITING) Paraglider flights can last many hours and cover many hundreds of kilometers.
Examples of Extreme Sports
• SkydivingIs the sport of exiting an aircraft and returning to earth with the aid of gravity while using a parachute to slow down the fall.
Examples of Extreme Sports
• SkateboardingIs an action sport which involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard.
Examples of Extreme Sports
Conclusion• There are many types of extreme sports.• Lifestyle sports are different from regular
sports.• Extreme sports offer attraction but also involve
big risk.