To the extreme
Subtitle: alternative sports, inside and out
By: Robert E. Rinehart and Synthia Sydnor, editors
Contributors: Rinehart, Robert E., 1951-; Sydnor, Synthia
Series: SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
Subjects: Extreme sports -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Proem / Robert E. Rinehart and Synthia Sydnor; title: Psychotic rant / Arlo Eisenberg; title: Dropping into sight commodification and co-optation of in-line skating / Robert E. Rinehart; title: Journey to La Gringa / Bob Galvan; title: Windsurfing: a subculture of commitment / Belinda Wheaton; title: Free dimensional skydiving / Tamara Koyn; title: Soaring / Synthia Sydnor; title: Small bikes, big men / Brett Downs; title: BMX, extreme sports, and the white male backlash / Kyle Kusz; title: Out of the gene pool and into the food chain / Lee Bridgers; title: Mountain biking madness / Simon Eassom; title: Eco (ego?) Challenge British Columbia, 1996/ Jim Cotter; title: Another kind of life adventure racing and epic expeditions / Martha Bell; title: The wrong side of the thin edge / Ron Watters; title: Whitewater sports from extreme to standardization / Jean-Pierre Mounet and Pierre Chifflet; title: Xtreem / David Dornian; title: The great divide sport climbing vs. adventure climbing / Peter Donnelly; title: Vintage days in the big waves of life / Greg Page; title: Expression sessions surfing, style, and prestige / Douglas Booth; title: Authenticity in the skateboarding world / Becky Beal and Lisa Weidman; title: Drawing lines a report from the extreme world (sic) / Jeff Howe; title: May 27, 1998 / MayKirsten Kremer; title: Oh say can you ski? Imperialistic construction of freedom in Warren Miller's Freeriders / Joanne Kay and Suzanne Laberge; title: Snowboarding the essence is fun / Jake Burton; title: Selling out snowboarding: the alternative response to commercial co-optation / Duncan Humphreys