Extreme sports are nontraditional sports and activities that require
participants to combine athletic skill with pronounced risk.
An extreme sport is a popular term for certain activities which have
a high level of danger. These activities often involve speed, height, a
high level of physical training. We can call many kinds of sports
extreme ones. Extreme sports are rarely sanctioned by schools.
Usually athletes don’t have a coach or may hire him later. People in
extreme sports complete not only against each other, but also against
weather and difficulties and conditions of exact kind of extreme sport.
There are many extreme sports that take place in air, land, and
water. For example there are some of them: ski jumping, sky diving ,sky
surfing, sky flying, indoor climbing, BMX (bicycle motocross), mountain
biking, mountain boarding, skateboarding, snowboarding, powerboat
racing, surfing, whitewater kayaking, windsurfing. All these sports need
to have special equipment and glasses.
For surfing we need a surfboard and swimming kits. For snowboarding
we need a snowboard and special boots to fix them on the board and a
suit and also sunglasses that help to look at the snow and a helmet. For
BMX sport you need a special not high bike with small wheels. Sportsmen
can dress fashionably, usually in shorts and a T-shirt,trainers, if
they want they wear a cap.
We can be sure that many new extreme sports will appear soon. Every
year more and more people are interested in extreme sports and take
active part in them. I’m sure that soon extreme sports will be on a high
level.
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Speed, excitement, danger. You can find all these in the different
extreme sports that have become popular in last 10 years.
Take bungee jumping. You jump off a bridge and you fall and fall, and
then, just before you hit the ground or water, an elastic rope pulls you
back.
In skysurfing you jump out of aeroplane and use a board to "surf" the
air, doing gymnastics in mid-air!
Winter sports have always an element of danger. For example
snowboarding, which has all the excitement of surfing but on snow, is
more dangerous even than skiing.
Probably the most dangerous of all the new winter sports is
snowrafting. You sit in a rubber boat and sail down a mountain at great
speed – and you can't control the boat!
Of course, water sports have always been fun. Ice diving, for
those people who are absolutely crazy. You put on diving equipment and
dive under a frozen lake. And, if that's not enough, you try to walk
upside down on the ice! I feel cold just thinking about it.
A lot of people are not fit nowadays. It's a big problem today.
If you want to feel fit you’d better go in for one kind of sport or
another. I think that everyone must do all he can to be healthy. Good
health is better than the best medicine. All kinds of physical exercises
are very useful to make our bodies strong and to keep ourselves fit and
healthy.
To tell the truth I don’t do sports regularly and it is not an
essential part of my daily life. In the morning I do some exercises just
to awake. In summer I go swimming as there is a beautiful lake with
pure water where my Granny lives. In winter I swim in the swimming pool.
I shouldn’t call myself a sports fan. Of course, I like to watch
sports competitions on TV, like hockey or football. Also I admire skiing
championships, biathlon, swimming.
