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Are all extreme sports real?

You may close your eyes. Watching people rolling and jumping off viaducts; watching people crawling on steep cliffs like geckos swimming on walls; watching people gliding barefoot on the water and jumping into the air... you may close your eyes, It may be hard to believe how brave and brave these people are, this is extreme sports.

When we see some young people wearing helmets on their heads and protective gear on their bodies, either with bare arms, or wearing large and strange clothes, or falling from high altitude; or on steep rocks Walking on the wall like a gecko; fighting against wind and waves with bare feet; or using skateboards and roller skates that children often play to cross various obstacles like walking on the ground, etc. This series of novel sports and breathtaking thrilling actions, It reminds us of a new term - extreme sports.

Extreme sports are an emerging thrilling sports event in the world in recent years. They start from challenging the endurance, perseverance and quality of the human body, develop people's potential energy, and challenge the gravity of the earth's center on people. Thrilling sports are not necessarily extreme sports that challenge the human body. Let’s not discuss the connotation and extension of extreme sports. Let’s first take a look at how Americans, the most widely developed and fastest growing extreme sports, define extreme sports and Of extreme sports.

The annual World Extreme Games has been held regularly in Rhode Island in the United States for two times since 1995, which shows that extreme sports have a considerable foundation and a certain level. Americans believe that extreme sports are traditional non-Olympic games that challenge the limits of human physical ability, will and perseverance, and position them in nine sports.

Skateboarding turns resistance into assistance. Skateboarding is more or less familiar to most young people in China. It's a competition, jumping from the skateboard over obstacles to see who can jump the highest. What's even more amazing is that the skateboard still follows the feet after landing. Any rough terrain is no problem for skateboarders, they will turn resistance into assistance and overcome every problem beautifully. Inline skating with four wheels in a row, faster speed and more tricks. Inline skating has four wheels arranged vertically, so the speed will be faster and there will be more tricks. Single row wheel exercise is divided into three parts. The first is half-pipe exercise, which is often called in China. "U"-shaped pool" sport. Jump from the "U-shaped pool" to a maximum height of about 15 meters, and perform various difficult actions after jumping. The second content is street racing. That is, on the prescribed road surface For speed skating competitions, only four small wheels with a diameter of about 5 centimeters can achieve speeds of up to 80 kilometers per hour. The third is the so-called street walking. It looks like walking on the street, but in fact it is definitely not on the right path. Instead, it is going up the handrails and down the stairs, treating the bumps as a smooth road.

It is an absolutely breathtaking stunt bicycle. Stunt bicycle is a human activity. The purpose of cycling is to integrate bicycles into one. This sport includes two aspects. One is the "U-shaped pool" sport. You can take off lightly in the "U-shaped pool" and perform various actions that are impossible to complete on flat ground. The second is the so-called bad ground jump. On a bad ground, the bicycle becomes a dangerous tool, and the rider performs various difficult actions. It is amazing how enjoyable the driving performance can be.

Aerial surfing is a sport that uses the wind as waves, turns with the wind, and turns against the wind. Athletes in the aerial surfing sport jump from an airplane at an altitude of more than 4,000 meters, step on a special surfboard, and perform various performances to the rhythm of rock music. From the action until landing on the ground, the entire process was recorded by the photographer who jumped off together. The two of them cooperated with each other. Without a little tacit understanding, all the efforts would have been lost.

The barefoot immortal on the water. Water sports in extreme sports defined by Americans actually refer to barefoot water skiing and wakeboarding in Weishui sports. Barefoot water skiing is when athletes rush onto a worker-built structure with bare feet under the traction of a motorboat at a speed of 65 kilometers per hour. The slope platform allows you to soar to an altitude of 30 meters and then stand firmly on the water after landing. However, the wake of Weishui is different. Most people are particularly afraid of the wake waves caused by speedboats passing by. Not as good as that, but extreme athletes have to plunge into the waves and use the arc created by the waves to perform twisting and somersaulting movements.