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.
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• Research by “American Sports Data” found that newstyle 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 yearolds 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.
Examples of Extreme Sports
• BASE Jumping
Is 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 Motorsports
Includes activities like super-cross, motocross,
freestyle motocross etc.
Examples of Extreme Sports
• Extreme canoeing and Rafting
These 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(PARAGLIT
ING)
Paraglider flights can
last many hours and
cover many hundreds
of kilometers.
Examples of Extreme Sports
• Skydiving
Is 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
• Skateboarding
Is 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.