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Insider and outsider narratives on the essence of modern "extreme" sports.
An international array of authors, including some prominent extreme athletes like Jake Burton and Arlo Eisenberg, look at a variety of issues and concerns within the new action extreme sports that are gaining popularity throughout the world. For each sport, an interpretation is presented through two essays: one written by a scholar active in some aspect of research for the given activity, and another by a practitioner/athlete who writes "from the inside out." The juxtaposed essays confront questions about the essence of sport such as, What is sport?; How does it originate?; and What is its use, value, and function? This book offers a fascinating look at how twentieth- and twenty-first-century sport forms emerge, proliferate, and take hold in a sport-crazy world.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
1. PROEM
Robert E. Rinehart and Synthia Sydnor
ROLLERBLADING
2. PSYCHOTIC RANT
Arlo Eisenberg
3. DROPPING INTO SIGHT
Commodification and Co-Optation of In-Line Skating
Robert E. Rinehart
WINDSURFING
4. JOURNEY TO LA GRINGA
Bob Galvan
5. WINDSURFING
A Subculture of Commitment
Belinda Wheaton
SKY DIVING/DANCING/SURFING
6. FREE DIMENSIONAL SKYDIVING
Tamara Koyn
7. SOARING
Synthia Sydnor
BMX
8. SMALL BIKES, BIG MEN
Brett Downs
9. BMX, EXTREME SPORTS, AND THE WHITE MALE BACKLASH
Kyle Kusz
MOUNTAIN BIKING
10. OUT OF THE GENE POOL AND INTO THE FOOD CHAIN
Lee Bridgers
11. MOUNTAIN BIKING MADNESS
Simon Eassom
ECO-CHALLENGE
12. ECO (EGO?) CHALLENGE
British Columbia, 1996
Jim Cotter
13. "ANOTHER KIND OF LIFE"
Adventure Racing and Epic Expeditions
Martha Bell
KAYAKING/WHITEWATER SPORTS
14. THE WRONG SIDE OF THE THIN EDGE
Ron Watters
15. WHITEWATER SPORTS
From Extreme to Standardization
Jean-Pierre Mounet and Pierre Chifflet
CLIMBING
16. XTREEM
David Dornian
17. THE GREAT DIVIDE
Sport Climbing vs. Adventure Climbing
Peter Donnelly
SURFING
18. VINTAGE DAYS IN THE BIG WAVES OF LIFE
Greg Page
19. EXPRESSION SESSIONS
Surfing, Style, and Prestige
Douglas Booth
SKATEBOARDING
20. AUTHENTICITY IN THE SKATEBOARDING WORLD
Becky Beal and Lisa Weidman
21. DRAWING LINES
A Report from the Extreme World (sic)
Jeff Howe
EXTREME SKIING
22. MAY 27, 1998
Kirsten Kremer
23. OH SAY CAN YOU SKI?
Imperialistic Construction of Freedom in Warren Miller's Freeriders
Joanne Kay and Suzanne Laberge
SNOWBOARDING
24. SNOWBOARDING
The Essence Is Fun
Jake Burton
25. SELLING OUT SNOWBOARDING
The Alternative Response to Commercial Co-optation
Duncan Humphreys
INDEX