Several months ago, there was this short-lived thread making fun of the whole “extreme sport” concept.
I’m not particularly up on the whole “extreme sport” concept (I have enough going on in my life without trying to keep track of new ways other people have come up with to amuse themselves) but I think Gary Kumquat is on the right track. What makes a sport “extreme” is taking it beyond the usual to make it particularly dangerous or complex. Lightning chess, where you are required to make your moves within a very short period (10-30 second IIRC), could be considered “extreme chess”.
Of course, in today’s culture, this would also require the players to wear goofy outfits and come up with names for particularly effective moves.
DoooDz! The Ohhh Peeee is like Sooo Whaaay wrong!
Jus last weekend me and my buds got waay into the totally extreeeeem new sport of HIGH ALTITUDE BUNGEE BOWLING!!!
(WoooF WooooF Wooof) YEAH! It was WAAAY Wrad!
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By the way, anyone who would like to participate in a “new” extreme
Sport need only visit ** Lore Sjöberg’s ** Exterme sports generator. First, generate the sport, then invent the equipment, rules and what not then let the big money roll in.
BTW, would we consider Evil Canevel to be an extreme sports kind of guy or just a crazy fool?
Sounds kind of redundant to me… isn’t the whole point of extreme sports that you have to be a little crazy or foolish to do it?
So if I taunt a cat that I know will bite and claw me, is that an extreme sport? Do I have to make up rules and wear flashy clothes, or just protective gear?
Whoah! Check the sarc on that! Hanging 10 fingers on the profain rack! Double power on the insult bogey retort!
Then a clipped threat rounding off a 360 fizzy final word!
Awesome!
It’ll have to be a Summer Olympics sport. All events in the Winter Olympics must be played on snow or ice. (From memory, no cite, but Google the International Olympic Committee.)
No, stop laughing. I’m serious; there really is a version of croquet called Extreme Croquet. Lots of people have made joke games called Extreme Croquet, but there’s actually an official recognized sport by that name.
Heh. I’m doing X-Treem file transfers right now. It’s just like normal file copying, except that every so often the connection to the remote directory dies in the middle of a file. Will I get my database backups over to the new server intact? You can feel the tension in the stadium … the spectators watch with bated breath …
*:: looks around, notices total absence of any spectators, shuts up :: *
Extreme sports are ones in which if you make a mistake, you will probably die. Not just get banged or broken, but die.
Some outdoor adventure activities: rock climbing, wild water kayaking, telemark skiing.
Some extreme activities: free solo rock climbing, class VI wild water kayaking; telemark skiing on 60 degree slopes over exposure.
Very few outdoor adventure participants ever reach the extreme level in their activities, let alone adolescents, but since adolescents idolize extreme sports participants, clothing and equipment is marketed toward the adolescents in such a manner as to encourage the adolescents to associate themselves with the extreme activities and the extreme activity participants.
