Extreme sportS

Extreme sport

Extreme sports... (also called action sport and adventure sport) is a media term for certain avtivities perceived as having a high level of inherent danger

These activities often involve speed, height, high level of physical exertion, highly specialized gear or spectacular stunts.

History

The origin of the divergence of the term "extreme sports" from "sports" may date to the 1950s in the appearance of a phrase usually, but wrongly, attributed to Ernest Hemingway. The phrase is

"There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games."

SPORTCLIMBING

You can climb a mountain, but also a rock. Or a wall. Rockclimbing is with Wallclimbing a new sport. The new sport is calling Sportclimbing. You don't have to climb to the top, but about the climbing itself. There are matches is climbing. The fasted or the best climber wins.

SKATEBOARDING

In the middle of the sixties a short, nice film introduced a new phenomenen: skateboarding. A new sport which took planksurfing, which is usually done in the surf. This new sensation became popular in the USA. National championship have been hold. The people liked the jumps, which the skateboarders made. At first this sport was done individual. Nowadays more and more people are looking for competitions. The majority of the people however is undoubtedly happiest when they can skateboard on the sidewalks or on the street, because it isn't easy at all and you must be a dare-devil.








RAFTING

Is a challenging recreational activity utilizing a raft to navigate a river or other bodies of water. This is usually done on whitewater or different degrees of rough water, in order to thrill and excite the raft passengers. The development of this activity as a leisure sport has become popular since the mid 1970s.