Extreme Sports
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With the Thrills Come Extreme Risks
Despite several well-publicized accidents, like the death last year of the snowmobiler Caleb Moore, just 25, the popularity of extreme sports has soared in recent years. Participants in the X Games and other sporting events regularly perform heart-stopping tricks on skis and snowboards, skateboards and mountain bikes, all of them endlessly replayed on YouTube and television for a growing audience of thrill-seekers.
Unfortunately, many young people eager for an adrenaline rush are trying to copy their extreme sports idols, putting themselves at terrible risk. Filled with overconfidence, many participants lack the skills and training for these stunts. And often they fail to use safety…
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How Red Bull Used It’s Extreme Sports Experience To Enter The Esports World
In 1989 Red Bull launched their athlete programme with the sponsorship of F1 driver, Gerhard Berger. They now have over 800 athletes including F1 driver Max Verstappen and England football star Trent Alexander-Arnold, across over 90 sports disciplines and have become synonymous with the extreme sports world. Their football teams Red Bull Salzburg and Red Bull Leipzig also boast some of the best training facilities in Europe.
The Wisdom of Running a 2,189-Mile Marathon
What extreme athletes can—and can’t—tell us about human endurance.
An Oral History of Extreme Sports
In the waning decades of the 20th century, men from New Zealand began inventing new ways to injure themselves. They jumped from bridges with elastic bands attached to their ankles, ran class-five rapids without boats, and fixed themselves to large kites to achieve great speed. Soon enough, a culture had emerged—one that paired backyard engineering with the pursuit of adrenaline. Today, thanks to these pioneers, brave souls the world over may hurtle through the air, down mountains and up rivers and live to brag about it. In their own words, the inventors explain how extreme sport on this island nation came to be, and where it might go next.
Search The Learning Network SEARCH Are Some Extreme Sports Too Extreme?
Do you think athletes engaging in the most dangerous sports, like BASE jumping, are living life to the fullest or just courting death? Is it their choice to make? Do we as a society have any responsibility to prevent, or at least try to decrease the appeal of, such extreme risk taking?
Adrenaline zen: what ‘normal people’ can learn from extreme sports
It is clear from my own research, that extreme sports have the capacity to shine a light on what it means to be human – and what human beings are capable of. But to realise this, as a society we need a cultural shift that accepts extreme sports as beneficial. Along with a change in view that recognises extreme sports participants as examples of what is possible in human performance.
Extreme athletes gain control through fear – and sometimes pay the price
Humans have evolved through taking risks. In fact, most human actions can be conceptualised as containing an element of risk: as we take our first step, we risk falling down; as we try a new food, we risk being disgusted; as we ride a bicycle, we risk falling over; as we go on a date, we risk being rejected; and as we travel to the moon, we risk not coming back. Human endeavour and risk are intertwined. So it is not surprising that despite the increasingly risk-averse society that we live in, many people crave danger and risk – a life less sanitised.
Extreme Sports Are Conquering A New Frontier: Your Living Room
Of course, climbing a rock face or jumping off a cliff pose much more danger than simply sitting on a set. They are called extreme sports for a reason, after all.
Extreme Sports Demystified: How Adrenaline Affects Your Health
There is a proven fact that you can improve your health a lot thanks to adrenaline sports; besides from pure excitement and great times, you can lose some weight, get stronger, more flexible, improve your concentration… The list goes on and on. Just imagine, you wake up one day and instead of going to your regular gym or fitness club, you dress up and go for a round of free running (Parkour) with your friends, or maybe go to a mountain biking park and hit some routes designed to get your heart pumping. If you live near the sea, imagine doing jet skiing, kitesurfing, or regular surfing every now and then. Life would be so awesome, huh?
Going the Distance: How to Train for Extreme Sports
Working hard and training harder, amateur athletes discuss their workout regimes and what drives them.
How Extreme Sports Can Motivate You To Exercise
Tricks that seemed impossible ten years ago are routine now. Let’s all harden up and become that flowing river. Stop living in the past! Learn from the past and progress forward!
Is It Wrong to Let Children Do Extreme Sports?
What were once simple pastimes, like riding bicycles and skateboards, have evolved into thrill-seeking pursuits and intense competitions whose goals include new tricks and surpassing what’s thought to be possible.
Living on the Edge: Extreme Sports and their Role in Society
With regard to extreme sports, the perception of the general public is that people who choose to take risks are irresponsible ‘adrenaline junkies’ who are ultimately a burden to society.
No guts, no glory? The fear and attraction of risky winter sports
Thrill-seeking is common in the young, especially young males. Many pay a high price for it. But our relationship with fear, courage and risk-taking is complicated.
Point Break
Skydiving through tons of cash, scaling mountains with bare hands, wingsuiting from high cliffs, racing from an avalanche on a bike — these are just some of the insane extreme sports moments in the new “Point Break” trailer.
Risking Death in Action Sports: Bravery or Lunacy?
Last week’s opening of the movie The Walk shows that we like to celebrate extreme acts of bravery. Except when they go horribly wrong.
Sport’s inherent dangers are clear - to sanitise is merely to diminish
Despite the crashes in the Rio road races, a world without unreasonable risks, and the chance to admire the people willing to take them, would seem a less appealing place to be.
Taking Sports to the Extreme
Devoted extreme sport participants regard safety as their highest priority. They learn the skills needed for their chosen sport, they train to become sufficiently expert at it and to know how to judge the extent of their ability, said Dr. Vani Sabesan, an orthopedic surgeon at Western Michigan University School of Medicine.
Taking Sports to the Extreme
Mountain biking, helicopter skiing, river surfing, BASE jumping, waterfall kayaking, ice climbing and other extreme sports that put participants at risk of serious injury, even death, grow annually in popularity. I know what you’re thinking, I thought it too: Why would anyone pursue activities so dangerous that you must sign a waiver absolving the organizers of all responsibility for a catastrophic accident? One small slip, a brief lapse of attention, and you’re history.
The Rise of Xtremepreneurs: Today’s World-Changers
I have a profound admiration for those who persevere and use life’s challenges to better themselves and at the same time support others in doing the same.
Understanding Action and Adventure Sports Participation—An Ecological Dynamics Perspective
The ecological dynamics framework provides a rich multidisciplinary platform for comprehensive and nuanced understanding of participation and creative actions of AAS participants, which emerge in all kinds of imaginable and ever-changing environments.
Why Clif Bar Dropped Athletes In Dangerous Sports
Extreme athletes keep pushing the envelope. Free solo climbers scale forbidding rock faces with no ropes or protection, just a chalk bag and fingers of steel. Wingsuit wearers fly by at 100 miles an hour and big wave surfers ride behemoths that could pulverize them. But this month, Clif Bar, the nutrition snack company, decided they're going to drop a number of extreme athletes that they sponsor, saying the risk the athletes take are just too great for Clif Bar to continue to support them.
Why danger is exciting – but only to some people
Whether our weakness is extreme sports, speeding, drugs or other dangerous behaviours, it is typically a mix of risk and novelty that draw us in. What psychologists call “novelty seeking” is the preference for the unexpected or new.
With the Thrills Come Extreme Risks
The occurrence of serious injuries is definitely increasing as participation rates in extreme sports go up,” Dr. Sabesan said. Yet, she added, adequate studies of the associated risks have not been done.
15 Extreme Sports That Can Kill You
Get ready for the most intense adrenaline rush of your life.
ExtremeSportMED
ExtremeSportMED is an international scientific association founded in 2013. It involves key experts from around the world and it aims to promote and develop extreme sports medicine.
X Games
X Games is bringing action sports to people all around the world with events in Aspen, Colo., Minneapolis, Minn., and beyond.
Xtreme Sports Organization
Driving to new places is a passion that all of us in the team share. XSO was created to give others like us a chance to experience the bliss we’ve found. With more than a decade of overland driving expedition experience coupled with over two decades of motorsport management exposure, everything we do is with unparalleled detailing, safety and passion.
Extreme Adventure Sports Blog
This blog is my journey in extreme sports. It.... ...shows my journey to the toughest extreme sports race on earth ...maps the fitness plan I will be using ...shows my nutrition plan
Extreme Sports Channel UK
Love action sports? We’ve got you covered with X Games, Dew Tour, Simple Session, AMA motocross and plenty more.
Extreme Sports X
Extreme Sports X is an online extreme sports magazine that is updated regularly with all of the latest goings on in the extreme sports world.
United States Extreme Sports Association
The United States Extreme Sports Association brings you recognition and it represents all Extreme Sports Communities, Participants and Enthusiasts under one roof.
360Guide
360Guide was born from passion for action sports, passion for writing and interest in the Internet. We have been snowboarding and surfing for a long time. We also enjoy wakeboarding and mountainbiking and actually any sport that gives you adrenaline, soul, lifestyle, puts you outside and connects you with nature. Read more: http://360guide.info/about#ixzz59oArtkU5
BaseJumper.com
BASE jumping is a highly dangerous sport that can easily injure and kill participants. Think long and hard before making a BASE jump. We do not recommend BASE jumping to anybody. You, and you alone, are responsible for your safety.
Mpora
Inspiring adventure. Want to get your videos or photographs featured on Mpora? You can submit your videos and photos to Mpora.
Nerve Rush
Nerve Rush is a community of people who use adventure to improve their lives. Together we broaden our horizons, push our limits, and instill more grit into everything we do. We dream, we dare, and we grow. is a community of people who use adventure to improve their lives. Together we broaden our horizons, push our limits, and instill more grit into everything we do. We dream, we dare, and we grow.
Skateboarding
The biggest and best skateboarding magazine in the world.
Snowboarder
SNOWBOARDER is the most-read magazine in snowboarding, delivering more photos and content than any other shred mag.
The Adventurists
We live to find ways to make the world a bit more difficult. To bring chaos into our over-sanitised lives. To create adventures where you don't know what will happen tomorrow or if you'll even make it. Because we think there's no greater moment than those seconds when you leap into an abyss of uncertainty and disaster.
The Inertia
The Inertia is the definitive voice of surf, mountain, and outdoors – featuring unique, energizing perspectives from our culture's most talented individuals.
Red Bull
Covering the world of extreme sports and adventure.
The Guardian
Covering the world of extreme sports.
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