To the Extreme

Alternative Sports, Inside and Out

AvRobert E. Rinehart,Synthia Sydnor

Inbunden, Engelska, 2003

Del i serien SUNY series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2003-03-27
Mått:152 x 229 x 31 mm
Vikt:807 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations
Antal sidor:450
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791456651

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Mer om författaren

Robert E. Rinehart teaches Kinesiology at California State University at San Bernardino. He is the author of Players All: Performances in Contemporary Sport. Synthia Sydnor is Associate Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Innehållsförteckning

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 SkatingRobert E. Rinehart WINDSURFING 4. JOURNEY TO LA GRINGA Bob Galvan 5. WINDSURFING A Subculture of CommitmentBelinda 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, 1996Jim Cotter 13. "ANOTHER KIND OF LIFE" Adventure Racing and Epic ExpeditionsMartha Bell KAYAKING/WHITEWATER SPORTS 14. THE WRONG SIDE OF THE THIN EDGE Ron Watters 15. WHITEWATER SPORTSFrom Extreme to StandardizationJean-Pierre Mounet and Pierre Chifflet CLIMBING 16. XTREEM David Dornian 17. THE GREAT DIVIDE Sport Climbing vs. Adventure ClimbingPeter Donnelly SURFING 18. VINTAGE DAYS IN THE BIG WAVES OF LIFE Greg Page 19. EXPRESSION SESSIONS Surfing, Style, and PrestigeDouglas Booth SKATEBOARDING 20. AUTHENTICITY IN THE SKATEBOARDING WORLDBecky 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 FreeridersJoanne Kay and Suzanne Laberge SNOWBOARDING 24. SNOWBOARDING The Essence Is FunJake Burton 25. SELLING OUT SNOWBOARDINGThe Alternative Response to Commercial Co-optationDuncan Humphreys INDEX