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9780791456668

To the Extreme: Alternative Sports, Inside and Out

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  • ISBN13:

    9780791456668

  • ISBN10:

    0791456668

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-03-01
  • Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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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
Proem
1(20)
Robert E. Rinehart
Synthia Sydnor
ROLLERBLADING
Psychotic Rant
21(6)
Arlo Eisenberg
Dropping Into Sight
27(28)
Commodification and Co-Optation of In-Line Skating
Robert E. Rinehart
WINDSURFING
Journey to La Gringa
55(20)
Bob Galvan
Windsurfing
75(30)
A Subculture of Commitment
Belinda Wheaton
SKY DIVING/DANCING/SURFING
Free Dimensional Skydiving
105(22)
Tamara Koyn
Soaring
127(18)
Synthia Sydnor
BMX
Small Bikes, Big Men
145(8)
Brett Downs
BMX, Extreme Sports, and the White Male Backlash
153(26)
Kyle Kusz
MOUNTAIN BIKING
Out of the Gene Pool and Into the Food Chain
179(12)
Lee Bridgers
Mountain Biking Madness
191(16)
Simon Eassom
ECO-CHALLENGE
Eco (Ego?) Challenge
207(12)
British Columbia, 1996
Jim Cotter
``Another Kind of Life''
219(38)
Adventure Racing and Epic Expeditions
Martha Bell
KAYAKING/WHITEWATER SPORTS
The Wrong Side of the Thin Edge
257(24)
Ron Watters
Whitewater Sports
From Extreme to Standardization
267(14)
Jean-Pierre Mounet
Pierre Chifflet
CLIMBING
Xtreem
281(10)
David Dornian
The Great Divide
291(16)
Sport Climbing vs. Adventure Climbing
Peter Donnelly
SURFING
Vintage Days in the Big Waves of Life
307(8)
Greg Page
Expression Sessions
315(22)
Surfing, Style, and Prestige
Douglas Booth
SKATEBOARDING
Authenticity in the Skateboarding World
337(16)
Becky Beal
Lisa Weidman
Drawing Lines
353(20)
A Report from the Extreme World (sic)
Jeff Howe
EXTREME SKIING
May 27, 1998
373(8)
Kirsten Kremer
Oh Say Can You Ski?
381(20)
Imperialistic Construction of Freedom in Warren Miller's Freeriders
Joanne Kay
Suzanne Laberge
SNOWBOARDING
Snowboarding
401(6)
The Essence Is Fun
Jake Burton
Selling Out Snowboarding
407(22)
The Alternative Response to Commercial Co-optation
Duncan Humphreys
Index 429

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