Presentation about Extreme sports; History, Background, Classification, Competition

1. By Tarek Besrour
18-03-2016

2. Extreme sports
History
Background
Classification
Competition
video

3. History
1950
• phrase usually, but wrongly, attributed to Ernest Hemingway: There are only three
sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games
1970 -
1980
• were considered extreme, only sports where the risk of fatal accidents on error were
real
1990
• self-proclaimed extreme sports has become quite common, in order to enhance the
activity.
2000
• New definition: sports that offer high adrenaline or are classic sports variations
initially without dangers but oriented harsher practices, more complex and more
dangerous
2004
• New classification of extreme sports

4. Background
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.
Given the high-
adrenaline image, it's
unsurprising that
male 15 to 24 year-
olds are the prime
market for extreme
sports
Extreme sports can
also enable people to
confront fears

5. Classification (1/2)
Air sports
•the aerial ballet,
base jumping,
sky flying
Land sports
•mountaineering,
motocross
extreme,
extreme skiing
Water sports
•barefoot, high-
dive or cliff-dive

6. Classification (2/2)
Extreme vehicle sports:
These sports require the use of
snow, ice or water) sports
and rolling sports
Motorized: waterskiing,
motocross
Non Motorized: windsurfing,
skateboarding
Extreme non-vehicle
sports: rock
climbing, canyoning

7. Competition (1/3)
The Winter X Games is an annual sports event, controlled and arranged by the U.S. sports
broadcaster ESPN (with coverage also shown on its sister network ABC), which focuses on extreme sports

8. Competition (2/3)
SUMMER

9. Competition (3/3)
For the last 20 years, the Festival International des Sports Extrêmes (FISE) in
Montpellier has been a staple event in the action sports calendar

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