To the Extreme

<p><b>Insider and outsider narratives on the essence of modern extreme sports.</b></p><p>An international array of authors including some prominent extreme athletes like Jake Burton and Arlo Eisenberg look at a variety of issues and concerns within the new action extreme sports that are gaining popularity throughout the world. For each sport an interpretation is presented through two essays: one written by a scholar active in some aspect of research for the given activity and another by a practitioner/athlete who writes from the inside out. The juxtaposed essays confront questions about the essence of sport such as What is sport?; How does it originate?; and What is its use value and function? This book offers a fascinating look at how twentieth- and twenty-first-century sport forms emerge proliferate and take hold in a sport-crazy world.</p>