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Extreme sports are most often pursued by young adults who wish to push their own limits of fear and physical ability, and in doing so, also help to push the limits of their sport as a whole. Because of this youthful demographic, extreme sports often attract their own kind of youth culture with associated clothing fashions and music. Indeed, the distinction between an extreme sport and a conventional sport is often as much due to marketing as the level of danger involved or the adrenaline generated. For example, snowboarding has a more extreme image than skiing mainly because it is newer, even though skiing is a faster and at least equally dangerous way of getting down the mountain. Also, only individual sports are generally considered to be extreme, so a sport like Rugby Union, though dangerous and adrenaline-inducing, is disqualified both by its traditional image and because it is a team sport.
The term gained popularity with the advent of the X Games, a made-for-television collection of such events. Advertisers were quick to realize the appeal of the event and competitors and organisers are now flooded with sponsorship. The high profile of extreme sports and the culture surrounding them has also led people to invent jokey parodies, such as Extreme ironing, Extreme-Accounting, urban housework, extreme croqueteXtreme Croquet is a variation on croquet, popularized by its lack of requirement for specific playing conditions. By its very nature the rules change location to location, but is mainly distinguished by ignoring all requirements pertaining to out-of-boun, extreme unicyclingExtreme unicycling consists of mountain and trial unicycling. Mountain unicycling (otherwise known as MUniing) is just like mountain biking but with one wheel. It involves the same log jumps and rocky tracks as it's doubled counterpart. Trial unicycling t and extreme wheelbarrowExtreme wheelbarrow or 'wheelbarrow freesyle', (a term popularised by the website www. wheelbarrowfreestyle. com) is a Extreme sport. It is particularly popular in the U. K, where you get a wheelbarrow and perform various tricks with it. For example: stan.
Several extreme sports, including snowboarding, were included in the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.
Some extreme sports have been around for many decades and the proponents span many generations, often including well known personalities. For example rock climbing and ice climbingIce climbing is the recreational activity of climbing ice formations and frozen waterfalls. Depending on the slope and texture of the ice, different equipment and techniques can be employed by the climber. For example, on flat ice, almost any good hiking has spawned such immortal names as Edmund HillarySir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE (born July 20, 1919) is a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer, most famous for the first successful climb of Mount Everest. He reached the 29,035-foot summit on May 29, 1953 with Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay., Chris BoningtonSir Christian John Storey Bonington (born August 6 1934 in Hampstead), is a British mountaineer. He is one of the most prolific and successful mountaineers of the 20th century and was knighted in 1996. His career has included 19 expeditions to the Himalay and more recently Joe Simpson. Another example is Surfing, which was originally invented centuries ago by the native inhabitants of Hawaii.