paintball, an extreme sport? hmmm...

[Buddha 3]

Alternatively we could call it "sport". Or how about "paintball". How's that sound?

 

[oggman]

I think that extreme sports are just sports that u wouldn't find tht many people because they are "extreme" eg. how many people do u knw who snowboard for a lot and are reasonably gud at it?

 

[Jasper]

Ok e-mailed an extreme website about this and the reply is:

Here is my definition.

An extreme sport is any sport or activity that can be considered as being high risk, dangerous or challenging the limits of human existence. Extreme sports are always exhilarating and often involve high speeds, precision skills and very few rules.

It's a very grey area really, your average weekend game of paintball wouldn't be considered extreme but if you go out in the middle of the dessert on a 7 day mission then it might be.

Hope it helps

--Dan

At 08:40 AM 13/12/2003, you wrote:

Hello,
I was wondering if you could help me since you are an extreme sports site. I am trying to find out what the definition of an extreme sport is. How does a sport get classified as extreme ie: snowboarding is extreme football is not so why is snowboarding an extreme sport.
Also would you class paintballing as an extreme sport?

Thankyou
Jasper


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Daniel Linsell
Founder Extremists
http://www.extremists.com.au
PO Box 318, Jesmond 2299, Australia
Ph: (+61) 0402818457

 

[Buddha 3]

Originally posted by Jasper
challenging the limits of human existence. Extreme sports are always exhilarating and often involve high speeds, precision skills and very few rules.

So Hiroshima and Nagasaki were cases of extreme sports too? Cool...

Seriously though, I do kinda agree with what the guy is saying.