To the Extreme

Description

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.

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 Skating
Robert E. Rinehart

WINDSURFING

4. JOURNEY TO LA GRINGA
Bob Galvan

5. WINDSURFING
A Subculture of Commitment
Belinda 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, 1996
Jim Cotter

13. "ANOTHER KIND OF LIFE"
Adventure Racing and Epic Expeditions
Martha Bell

KAYAKING/WHITEWATER SPORTS

14. THE WRONG SIDE OF THE THIN EDGE
Ron Watters

15. WHITEWATER SPORTS
From Extreme to Standardization
Jean-Pierre Mounet and Pierre Chifflet

CLIMBING

16. XTREEM
David Dornian

17. THE GREAT DIVIDE
Sport Climbing vs. Adventure Climbing
Peter Donnelly

SURFING

18. VINTAGE DAYS IN THE BIG WAVES OF LIFE
Greg Page

19. EXPRESSION SESSIONS
Surfing, Style, and Prestige
Douglas Booth

SKATEBOARDING

20. AUTHENTICITY IN THE SKATEBOARDING WORLD
Becky 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 Freeriders
Joanne Kay and Suzanne Laberge

SNOWBOARDING

24. SNOWBOARDING
The Essence Is Fun
Jake Burton

25. SELLING OUT SNOWBOARDING
The Alternative Response to Commercial Co-optation
Duncan Humphreys

INDEX

Sujets

• Sport
• Autres sports
• Popular culture

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791487143
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

X To the E treme

SUNY series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations CL Cole and Michael A. Messner, editors

To the Extreme

A LT E R N AT I V E S P O RT S, I N S I D E A N D O U T

ROBERT E. RINEHART and SYNTHIA SYDNOR Editors

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS

Published by State University of New York Press, Albany

© 2003 State University of New York

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

To the extreme : alternative sports, inside and out / Robert E. Rinehart and Synthia Sydnor, editors. p. cm — (SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-5665-X (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-7914-5666-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Extreme sports—Social aspects. I. Rinehart, Robert E., 1951– II. Sydnor, Synthia. III. Series.

GV749.7.T6 2003 796.04'6—dc21

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

2002042646

For Nicholas Murphy and Alyssa Kathrene R. E. R.

For Alvin, Mary, Jesse Francis, and Journey Elizabeth S. S.

Listen: If we cannot do the superhuman we are lost . . .*

*Bertolt Brecht, “Wir Hören: Du willst nicht mehr mir uns arbeiten,” Gedichte V, 8–9. Frankfurt-am-Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1960–1965, as quoted in Frederic Ewen,Bertolt Brecht: His Life, His Art, His Times,New York: Citadel Publishing Group, 1992, p. 327.

C O NTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CHAPTER ONE—PROEM Robert E. Rinehart and Synthia Sydnor

R O L L E R B L A D I N G

CHAPTER TWO—PSYCHOTIC RANT Arlo Eisenberg

CHAPTER THREE—DROPPING INTO SIGHT Commodification and Co-Optation of In-Line Skating Robert E. Rinehart

W I N D S U R F I N G

CHAPTER FOUR—JOURNEY TO LA GRINGA Bob Galvan

CHAPTER FIVE—WINDSURFING A Subculture of Commitment Belinda Wheaton

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S K Y D I V I N G / D A N C I N G / S U R F I N G

CHAPTER SIX—FREE DIMENSIONAL SKYDIVING Tamara Koyn

CHAPTER SEVEN—SOARING Synthia Sydnor

B M X

CHAPTER EIGHT—SMALL BIKES, BIG MEN Brett Downs

CHAPTER NINE—BMX, EXTREME SPORTS, AND THE WHITE MALE BACKLASH Kyle Kusz

M O U N TA I N B I K I N G

CHAPTER TEN—OUT OF THE GENE POOL AND INTO THE FOOD CHAIN Lee Bridgers

CHAPTER ELEVEN—MOUNTAIN BIKING MADNESS Simon Eassom

ECOCHALLENGE

CHAPTER TWELVE—ECO (EGO?) CHALLENGE British Columbia, 1996 Jim Cotter

CHAPTER THIRTEEN—“ANOTHER KIND OF LIFE” Adventure Racing and Epic Expeditions Martha Bell

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K AYA K I N G / W H I T E WAT E R S P O RT S

CHAPTER FOURTEEN—THE WRONG SIDE OF THE THIN EDGE Ron Watters

CHAPTER FIFTEEN—WHITEWATER SPORTS From Extreme to Standardization Jean-Pierre Mounet and Pierre Chifflet

C L I M B I N G

CHAPTER SIXTEEN—XTREEM David Dornian

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN—THE GREAT DIVIDE Sport Climbing vs. Adventure Climbing Peter Donnelly

SURFING

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN—VINTAGE DAYS IN THE BIG WAVES OF LIFE Greg Page

CHAPTER NINETEEN—EXPRESSION SESSIONS Surfing, Style, and Prestige Douglas Booth

SKATEBOARDING

CHAPTER TWENTY—AUTHENTICITY IN THE SKATEBOARDING WORLD Becky Beal and Lisa Weidman

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE—DRAWING LINES A Report from the Extreme World (sic) Jeff Howe

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