jumping on a board is easy...
Originally posted by TJ 2
it's tha landing bit that takes practice - or a titanium ass.
When you get out to Wisconsin, I'll show you the X-rays of my wrist. I got some killer plates in there now, and two NICE scars to boot. Hell, if you wanna come back in the Winter I'll take you riding out here. I heard you can still do it.
As for extreme, let me lift this from a site.
As said by Felix St. Clair Renard, professional photographer living in France
And what we call extreme skiing here in France is not what you call it in the States. Here, the main difference is, if you fall, you die. They all die, though. I first came here in 74 and, since 1980, since I?ve been living here, I've been to more funerals than weddings. Vallencant, his wife, Goivy, Boivin ... I'm not surprised they died. They did crazy things. There are just too many factors you can't control. It's stupid to die on the mountain when you're 25 there's so much left to do.
There are always people willing to jump for the camera. When you're 20 you think you're immortal. When you're 50 and live in Chamonix and go to the funerals for very good skiers, it makes you think about it. Now, when I?m on the mountain and it's steep and hard and icy and I know if I fall I will probably die, now, I get scared. And when I get scared, I ski like ****.
There's more. Read it at
http://www.sportsgearguide.com/photographer.htm
keep that in mind when you talk about extreme sports. It's become a catchphrase, a word to hang on a game or sport that you don't exactally know what to call it. More dangerous, it's a buzz word to make people get excited over something that may not be everything it's cracked up to be.
It also connotates that not everyone can do it. I know that I can't do a 5-0 grind over a half-pipe. I do know that I can snowboard, and that I can probably beat most people down a mountain if given half the will to do it. Then again, I don't go 'extreme boarding'. At least not 'till I can afford hardboots and a pure carving ride.
One more thing while I'm thinkig of it. Besides the thought of 'extreme Rugby", Darkwerks makes an intresting point. :
I think the point is that paintball isn't a "normal" sport. Anything that isn't easily pigeon-holed seems to get classified as an extreme sport. It seems that p'ballers are into much of the same sports, culture and music assoiciated with extreme sports. Lots of regulars on the boards here have mentioned mountain biking, snow boarding and surfing, plus every "what music are y'all into" thread ends up like the soundtrack to a snowboard movie.
This may be, but it stands to question then. If paintball was a more 'normal' sport, would we gain recogntiion as a legitimate industry faster? I know a lot of players who snowboard (It's Wisconsin and Minnesota, you gotta do SOMEHTING for those 6 months of winter!), or mountain bike, or whatever. So what? By association paintball could also be chess!
I'd rather pintball be known as it's own unique sport than as an 'extreme' one. Besides, what you kids call 'baggy' I call "pretty good fitting pants" I just can't be hip, yo. werd.
-Tyger
) I played Rugby for 9 years and fractured my hip, clavicle and neck add to that 15 seperate dislocations of fingers one on each ancle and one knee. And yet Rugby is not considered "extreme" Rugby also has regular deaths each year from when the scrum colapses or from high tackles with few if any calls for a ban.
