Extreme sports?

Question

What should bungee jumping or other extreme sports be considered an adventure, sport (discipline) or irresponsibility? Take a position on these activities and defend your point of view in a cause and effect paragraph.
I'm willing to give ten points to the person who answer this correctly in less than an hour!!!!

Answer 1

Think of this, what do you mean by an adventure? it could mean going outdoors and having a camping trip, or going hiking in the woods, to easily explain this

An adventure is an activity that is comprised of risky or uncertain experiences that are undertaken at least in part for the sake of physical or emotional excitement. The term is more popularly used in reference to physical activities that have some potential for danger, such as orienteering, skydiving, mountain climbing, and extreme sports.

The term is broad enough to refer to any enterprise that is potentially fraught with risk, such as a business venture or a major life undertaking. An adventurer is a person who bases their lifestyle or their fortunes on adventurous acts. Cheers

Answer 2

The term extreme sports gained popularity in the 90's inrefrence to increased popularity in sports that exposed the participant to excessive risk. before I can answer your question, I would have to examine the difference between sports and activities. A working definition would be a competitve physical activity or an active pastime participated in for excercise. Bungee jumping is not a sport. It could be cosidered an activity, but is niether competitive nor exercise. So now with a working definition let us look at you question: are extreme sports adventure, sport or irresponible?

Responsibility or irresponsibility is in the eyes of the beholder. A professional athelete hitting a twenty foot tall jump and sailing 100+ feet is not being irresponsible, but a lay person trying to hit the same jump absolutely is, they have not trained their balance and nerves enough to react to the situation or pressures that will ensue as a result of their actions. However when you think about the increased popularity or climbing with out ropes, I tend to think their irresponsibility involved. Maybe because it is easier for a person with little or no experience to climb 50 feet up a cliffside and then fall then it is for a person with little or no experience to hit a large jump wrong, or maybe it has to do with the fact that the person that climbs a 1200 foot cliff with no ropes is going to die when they screw up not just break some bones. Responsibility lies also in the image that you are projecting to others.

Other sports that are deemed extreme: downhill biking, skate boarding are more competitive and thus more for the masses. these I would classify as sport.

Adventure does not apply to this question, because adventure is a very relative term. One man's adventure is another man's daily routine. Camping and hunting might be an adventure for the business man, whereas a trip into the city might be an adventure for the ranch hand.

Basically in any sport deemed extreme, there is a level where the sport is not extreme (where most people paractice said sport). Then there is a leve which becomes extreme (where serious injury may result). Then there is a level which becomes irresponsible (death is the result).

Answer 3

Most extreme spots are unpredictable you never really know what is going to happen. But the one sport I do think is really dangerous is diving. The ascent from a dive, if done too fast, can cause decompression illnesses, potentially causing failure of the spinal cord, brain and lungs. Not to mention that sharks passing by might be peckish. Check this website out

Answer 4

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