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Extreme sports is a sub-category of sports that are described as any kind of sport "of a character or kind farthest removed from the ordinary or average". [27] These kinds of sports often carry out the potential risk of serious and permanent physical injury and even death. [ 28 ]
Extreme pogo is a young extreme sport and is currently emerging into popular culture as evidenced by the growing number of athletes around the globe, growing sales from extreme pogo companies, [6] the popularity of Xpogo athlete exhibition teams, [7] positive feedback and continued interest in Xpogo content. [8]
The Extreme Sports Channel is a pay television channel that was launched from Amsterdam on 1 May 1999. [2] The channel broadcasts in over 60 countries and 12 languages, and covers extreme sport and adventure sports which include surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, wakeboarding, motocross, BMX, mountain biking, FMX, music, gaming and fashion.
The following is a list of sports and games, divided by category. According to the World Sports Encyclopaedia (2003), there are 8,000 known indigenous sports and sporting games . [ 1 ]
Extreme pogo is a relatively new extreme sport and is currently emerging into popular culture as evidenced by the growing number of Xpogo athletes around the globe, growing sales from extreme pogo companies, [12] the popularity of Xpogo athlete exhibition teams, [13] positive feedback and continued interest in Xpogo content on sites such as ...
The others are namely the World Games, established to host sports not within the Olympic scope; the World Mind Sports Games, which hosts competitions in mind sports which are not found in either of the two abovementioned events; the X Games and the Winter X Games, organised for extreme action sports; the World Combat Games, for martial arts and ...
An extreme pogo exhibition in 2017. From 2000 to 2004, groups of extreme pogo athletes began emerging around the United States and other countries such as the Netherlands, inspired by Xpogo.com. [7] During this time there were no 'extreme' sticks, only traditional steel spring sticks that could be purchased at established retailers.
Rafting on certain sections of rivers is considered an extreme sport and can be fatal, while other sections are not so extreme or difficult. Rafting is also a competitive sport practiced around the world which culminates in a world rafting championship event between the participating nations.