Extreme Sports

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


• 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.


• 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.


• Extreme Biking Is a sport which consists of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough territory, using specially adapted bikes.


• Paragliding(PARAGLITING) Paraglider flights can last many hours and cover many hundreds of kilometers.


• 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.


• SkateboardingIs an action sport which involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard.


Conclusion• There are many types of extreme sports.• Lifestyle sports are different from regular

sports.• Extreme sports offer attraction but also involve

big risk.

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