| Obviously extreme sports get your attention. The | | | | been a lot of negative press directed at |
| have garnered the attention of the U.S. military | | | | skateboarders but lately skateboarding is gaining |
| who has recognized that anyone involved in | | | | mainstream recognition and is being appreciated |
| extreme sports would be good candidates to | | | | worldwide. |
| recruit for their hard to fill special operations | | | | Snowboarding is another extreme sport with its |
| positions like the Army Rangers and Navy Seals. | | | | own radical characters and is essentially |
| So what is it that makes a sport extreme? Let's | | | | skateboarding on snow. Snowboarders perform |
| take a look at some of the most popular ones | | | | many tricks that are the same or similar to those |
| One of the main factors that make a sport | | | | in skateboarding and like skateboarding, the sport |
| extreme is the element of risk of injury or even | | | | has caught on internationally. Today, on any ski |
| death. In nearly every sport that is classified in | | | | slope in America, you will find snowboarders. |
| this way you will usually find speed, heights, | | | | Sport climbing is a variation of rock climbing that |
| danger, and stunts. I believe the thing that causes | | | | has become very popular over the years and is |
| people to become addicted to participating in | | | | enjoyed by those who care more about displaying |
| these sports is the adrenaline rush associated with | | | | and testing their strength and athletic ability than |
| them. Adrenaline is much like morphine when | | | | adventure. |
| released in the brain and I see people who just | | | | Skydiving is an extreme sport that is much less |
| can't seem to get enough no matter how many | | | | competitive but highly dangerous. It is the initial |
| times they are hurt. | | | | jump that is the biggest thrill with skydiving. There |
| The first of the extreme sports was probably | | | | are more competitions being formed now in |
| skateboarding. Introduced in the 1960's as a way | | | | skydiving with groups forming shapes and creating |
| to stay in shape when the surf wasn't up, | | | | chains for records before opening their shoots. |
| skateboarding became a sport of its own and | | | | The attraction to watching sports where the |
| soon competitions were formed with riders | | | | outcome is unpredictable is growing larger, |
| jumping over cars and doing tricks in half pipes | | | | especially with younger children. No doubt as more |
| where they would be floating thirty feet or more | | | | people begin to participate in these sports they |
| above the bottom of the platform. There has | | | | will seem less and less extreme. |