To the Extreme : Alternative Sports, Inside and Out

by Rinehart, Robert E.; Sydnor, Synthia

• ISBN13: 9780791456651
• ISBN10: 079145665X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Robert E. Rinehart teaches Kinesiology at California State University at San Bernardino Synthia Sydnor is Associate Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xi
CHAPTER ONE-PROEM	1	(20)
Robert E. Rinehart and Synthia Sydnor
ROLLERBLADING
CHAPTER TWO-PSYCHOTIC RANT	21	(6)
Arlo Eisenberg
CHAPTER THREE-DROPPING INTO SIGHT	27	(28)
Commodification and Co-Optation of In-Line Skating
Robert E. Rinehart
WINDSURFING
CHAPTER FOUR-JOURNEY TO LA GRINGA	55	(20)
Bob Galvan
CHAPTER FIVE-WINDSURFING	75	(30)
A Subculture of Commitment
Belinda Wheaton
SKY DIVING/DANCING/SURFING
CHAPTER SIX-FREE DIMENSIONAL SKYDIVING	105	(22)
Tamara Koyn
CHAPTER SEVEN-SOARING	127	(18)
Synthia Sydnor
BMX
CHAPTER EIGHT-SMALL BIKES, BIG MEN	145	(8)
Brett Downs
CHAPTER NINE-BMX, EXTREME SPORTS, AND THE WHITE MALE BACKLASH	153	(26)
Kyle Kusz
MOUNTAIN BIKING
CHAPTER TEN-OUT OF THE GENE POOL AND INTO THE FOOD CHAIN	179	(12)
Lee Bridgers
CHAPTER ELEVEN-MOUNTAIN BIKING MADNESS	191	(16)
Simon Eassom
ECO-CHALLENGE
CHAPTER TWELVE-ECO (EGO?) CHALLENGE	207	(12)
British Columbia, 1996
Jim Cotter
CHAPTER THIRTEEN-"ANOTHER KIND OF LIFE"	219	(38)
Adventure Racing and Epic Expeditions
Martha Bell
KAYAKING/WHITEWATER SPORTS
CHAPTER FOURTEEN-THE WRONG SIDE OF THE THIN EDGE	257	(10)
Ron Watters
CHAPTER FIFTEEN-WHITEWATER SPORTS	267	(14)
From Extreme to standardization
Jean-Pierre Mounet and Pierre Chifflet
CLIMBING
CHAPTER SIXTEEN-XTREEM	281	(10)
David Dorman
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN-THE GREAT DIVIDE	291	(16)
Sport Climbing vs. Adventure Climbing
Peter Donnelly
SURFING
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN-VINTAGE DAYS IN THE BIG WAVES OF LIFE	307	(8)
Greg Page
CHAPTER NINETEEN-EXPRESSION SESSIONS	315	(22)
Surfing, Style, and Prestige
Douglas Booth
SKATEBOARDING
CHAPTER TWENTY-AUTHENTICITY IN THE SKATEBOARDING WORLD	337	(16)
Becky Beat and Lisa Weidman
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE-DRAWING LINES	353	(20)
A Report from the Extreme World (sic)
Jeff Howe
EXTREME SKIING
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO-MAY 27, 1998	373	(8)
Kirsten Kremer
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE-OH SAY CAN YOU SKI?
Imperialistic Construction of Freedom in Warren Miller's Freeriders	381	(20)
Joanne Kay and Suzanne Laberge
SNOWBOARDING
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR-SNOWBOARDING	401	(6)
The Essence Is Fun
Jake Burton
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE-SELLING OUT SNOWBOARDING	407	(22)
The Alternative Response to Commercial Co-optation
Duncan Humphreys
INDEX	429