Extreme Sports

Extreme Sports is a term for certain activities 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.

 At presesent date, there are no careful studies or statistics of deaths to separate activities with low or normal level of danger from those with high level of danger. It is instead used as a marketing term in promoting events such as the X Games.

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.”

The implication of the phrase was that the word “sport” defined an activity in which one might be killed. “The other activities being termed “games”. The phrase may have been invented by either writer Barnaby Conrad or automotive author Ken Purdy.In recent decades the term extreme sport was further promoted by X Games, a multi-sport event created and developed by ESPN. The first X Games (known as 1995 Extreme Games) were held in Newport, Providence, Mount Snow, and Vermont in the United States.

I tried to practice an extreme sport, it was skateboarding but it was too difficult, i got hurt a lot in my legs and my arms so i gave up. Nowadays i don’t practice any extreme sport. But i like to practice snowboarding because it has to be cool practice this sport in snow between the mountains and i suppose it’s better and more safety than skateboarding.

~ by christancho69 on May 17, 2009.