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To the Extreme

By Rinehart, Robert E.

To the Extreme

By Rinehart, Robert E.

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
450
Release Date:
2003-03-17
Publication Date:
2003-03-27
Publisher:
SUNY Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0791456668
ISBN13:
9780791456668
Weight:
647 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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