Talk:Extreme sport/Archives/2014

List of Extreme Sports

I do not wish to list sports which I personally believe are not "extreme", but we need a working definition, or some sort of consensus on what is an "extreme sport". Mere personal participation in a sport does not make it "extreme" no matter how much we may want to appear cool or whatnot. If a definition or consensus not be reached, then this list should be deleted.(Athomeonarock 05:34, 11 July 2006 (UTC))

whoever decides, it's not you

What am I saying with this admittedly provocative heading? That it shouldn't be Wikipedia contributors who "decide" whether something is an extreme sport. Like anything on Wikipedia, there should be a citation demonstrating that something is considered an extreme sport by some authority other than the author. Is this a misguided notion, that nobody has mentioned it yet? --Stellmach 14:06, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

horseback riding

I removed the following statement because it appears to be POV: Please Note: Horse Riding, Cross Country Riding, Show Jumping, Hunting and any other form of riding a horse is not an extreme sport. And should never ever been considered an extreme sport.

I wasn't aware that anyone was ever trying to consider horseback riding or anything similar as an extreme sport. The statement just appears to be too much of a violation of NPOV (though there's still a little bit of POV here and there in this article). --Elkman 20:56, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Poor standard of literacy for such a major activity

I have taken some time to pull the socks up on this article; the editorial standards are not what they should be for such a major activity. I am ex-Oxford University Dangerous Sports Club btw.. and I was there a while back - before the phrase extreme sports was even thought of! And yeah; I should be literate as I studied as hard as I .. Grroin 14:25, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Clever self promotion or just fun - urban golf

Have put urban golf up for delete and maybe the link should go from here. By no stretch of the imagination should this be in extreme sport listGrroin 01:50, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Yatching and Unicycling

I really do not consider these two extreme sports. If someone does not give me a good reason to keep them then I will delete them. It is not something I would qualify as a risky activity. Unless you are yatching around antartica, or riding a unicycle over a cliff QzarBaron 02:53, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

This is a very ignorant statement, you should be ashamed of yourself. If you would put two seconds into researching unicycling, you would find a culture of unicycling that one would never think exists. There are professional mountain unicyclist and trial riders. Kris Holmes, for example, has his own line of unicycling seats just as a skateboarder would have a line of helmets. Just because unicycling is portrayed as a clown thing, it doesn’t mean that it is, there is a whole world out there of extreme unicycling. On the internet you can find clips of unicyclists riding on the edge of canyons and racing down rocky mountains, I myself unicycle and was extremely inspired by the DVD " UNiVERsE 2 : Implosion Factor" which shows some of the crazy stunts unicyclers have preformed that would wow the eyes of anyone and for sure should be seen as an extreme sport. Go to this link, [1] , and watch a clip from the DVD if you don’t believe me. I’m just saying there should be a whole section on just extreme unicycling on Wikipedia, because there is more than enough to write pages upon pages about it.

Same can be said about yatching, except you don't have to do research, just watch TV. The oceans are extreme enviroments par excellence, racing in them is extreme sport. 82.181.150.151 21:13, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

I think that unicycling should be in the list. i unicycle, and think that it should be recognized as a "extreme" sport.

Do the term test for unicycling: is it a sport? Definitely. Is it extreme (risk of bodily harm if not executed well)? I guess there is (you can make a really nasty fall).Tavernsenses (talk) 09:27, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

As good as derogatory content

i was extremely disappointed with the contents of the first page...

we need a much broader and deeper view on Extreme sports...

the current content is highly biased and does no justice to the title...

Ultimate Frisbee

Removed. It is a team game, no different from football, rugby or hockey. Indeed, the later two are considerably more extreme than Ultimate Frisbee. Damiancorrigan 15:49, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Airsoft removal

Certainly a POV, not dangerous, not "frindge". can not be considered extreme in any situation

Good job. — [Mac Davis] (talk) (Desk|Help me improve)

Jousting

Anyone consider adding jousting? Just a thought I had off the top of my head.

Why don't cha put gladiating in than? I think extreme sports have to be from this time or the future. — [Mac Davis] (talk) (Desk|Help me improve)

Barefoot Skiing Add

Added barefoot skiing as it is a very different discipline of Water skiing similar to how snow boading and wake boarding differ from skiing. It is also has its own competitions and 40+ miles per hour on your feet is definitely extreme.

Jousting

Good point. Although it does occur today, it isn't widely enough practiced to justify being listed.

Paintball and surfing

Surely these are not "extreme" sports...

Surfing is note an extreme sport? Are you crazy? Try surfing Teahupoo. Please, do your homework before writing nonsense. But, and now a big BUT, there should not be a List of Extreme sports here, because it's completely subjective. I propose to create a separate article with a list of Extreme Sports and see if this article meets wikipedia standards. If not, then the list will be deleted and the Extreme Sports article will remain clean of all this POV thing. Regards Loudenvier 20:29, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

List of extreme sports removal

Hi all. I've removed the list of extreme sports from this article. The reasoning is simple: This article about Extreme Sports is an important article given the prominence of Extreme Sports in the media, etc. It would be a waste to degrade the quality of this article and further disputes on it's talk page because of a list of so-called extreme sports. We had a similar problem with the Virtuoso article: people started a list of Virtuosi players, but, who is considered a virtuoso? It's POV to consider a guitar player virtuoso or not, unless a reliable source for that had stated so. For example, Jimi Hendrix is considered a virtuoso by the media and by lazy people. He however wasn't a guitar virtuoso. He lacked the discipline and technical skills of a true virtuoso. He made lots of performance mistakes live, which a virtuoso should never commit. If you see Steve Vai playing perfectly a lot of songs which are much more technical demanding than any Jimi Hendrix song you will start to understand what I'm saying. The fact is that, to consider Jimi Hendrix a virtuoso or not, is a holplessly POV statement. The same applies to an Extreme Sport. Someone here said Surfing is not an extreme sport. To me this one is crazy or narrow minded: Everyday surf in small waves is certainly not too extreme :-). But try surfing Teahupoo at a size: Isn't it an extreme sport? Of course it is, but in my humble opinion, or, in other words, POV. So I decided to eliminate the list and create it's own article. In the process I'm shielding the article about Extreme Sports, as a definition, from the discussion about the list of extreme sports. In the end, this list can be considered non-encyclopedic, and be deleted by administrator. In this case, no such list will be allowed on the article too, because it couldn't stand in wikipedia by itself, because its unencyclopedic. I think this is the way to help improving the Extreme articles and move unproductive discussions to it's proper place/page. Regards. Loudenvier 20:48, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

-OK your a moron if you think surfing is not an extreme sport! maybe you should try it some time and then youll decide differently. sorry but in regular sports you get scrapes and bruises in extreme sports like surfing or skateboarding you get broken bones. please try it before you run your mouth about something — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.51.171.121 (talk) 00:19, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

This article is great!

I had a feeling "Extreme Sports" was a BS term that really amounted to mostly marketing & hype! :-D --BillyTFried 23:05, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

I must disagree with the above. It is in no way a bullshit term!!! It clearly refers to a form of divertimento for the middle classes in developed countries (note: the upper classes do not indulge in so-called extreme sports—they can afford to do properly dangerous stuff). I do concur with the marketing & hype bit, though. :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.195.151.72 (talk) 00:17, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

Thoroughbred Horse Racing

With reference to the comment "I removed the following statement because it appears to be POV: Please Note: Horse Riding, Cross Country Riding, Show Jumping, Hunting and any other form of riding a horse is not an extreme sport. And should never ever been considered an extreme sport."

I would ask what your thoughts are on the task asked of the jockey in a Thoroughbred race? Every time they sit in the saddle of a 550kg animal at high speed with a number of other competitors in the race, they take their lives into their hands. Consider balancing on the balls of your feet and guiding a thoroughbred over a mile where one false step could be disastrous. I believe the following elements are attained:

"An extreme sport (also called action sport, adventure sport, and adventurous sport) is any sport featuring speed, height, danger, a high level of physical exertion, highly specialized gear, or spectacular stunts." Wikipedia —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.42.2.11 (talk) 15:44, 16 February 2007 (UTC).

Snowskating

This is definitely an extreme sport and should be written into the article! [2]

Hattabatta 00:19, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Muslim Xtremists

I removed the comment regarding the "Muslim Xtremists", as this sounds like a dubious attempt at humor. However, even should this be true, there was no background on it and it didn't really seem related to the rest of the paragraph. If it is true, making it a little less non sequitur so that it relates to the surrounding text better would be nice.

Twilight 14:03, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Good call. It sounded illegit, but true or not, it was inappropriate and needed removal. LunaticBeatnik 09:40, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

Danger of extreme sports

In my point of view, all extreme sports needs to be dangerous. If you are calling that extreme sports imply a high level of speed, strength, endurance, height, or risk of injury. You also are saying that running is an extreme sport. That is not true. I like the current definition which separate sports from the extreme sport. Carlosguitar 17:17, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

I expressly state that a sport needs to be fashionable among youth to be considered an extreme sport and running is definitely not (hobbyist runners tend to be older). Furthermore, many sports universally considered to "extreme sports" such as skateboarding, BMX, etc are not dangerous in a absolute sense or in comparison to similar "non extreme" sports such as road cycling. Furthermore, in many potentially dangerous sports, the very danger results in EXTREME safety precautions being used which in the end make it relatively safe (similar to how statistically airplanes are safer than cars). In the end, almost every sport has an element of risk and unless you have a statistical study of injury/death rates for various sports, its meaningless to talk about what you think is dangerous or not.24.12.189.115 21:53, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

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• Running an extr. sport by old def

No, running do not have a high level of danger, can be dangerous in some situation, but never high level of danger.

• that are fashionable among the under 30 demographic.

Not true, there is "old" skaters like Tony Hawk, Rodney Mullen, Bob Burnquist, Andy Macdonald, Chad Muska. A legend of BMX is also "old". And skateboarding and BMX are not fashionable, it is your point of view.

• many sports universally considered to "extreme sports" such as skateboarding, BMX

Considered by who? Why? I never said that skateboarding and BMX are extreme sports, you are saying it.

• In the end, almost every sport has an element of risk and unless you have a statistical study of injury/death rates for various sports

I never said that sports does not have danger. The question here is which are a highly dangerous activities, not which are few danger or safe.

Your definition is totally inaccurate. According to your definition horse racing is a extreme sport because involve high level of speed; running is because involve endurance; weight training and bodybuilding are because involve strength and endurance. Carlosguitar 09:39, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

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You have a extremely narrow definition of extreme sports if you do not consider BMX or skateboarding to be examples of such. You need to stop imposing your minority view on wikipedia. (your other points are not worth arguing since you are willfully misinterpreting my statements).24.12.189.115 19:44, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

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• You have a extremely narrow definition of extreme sports if you do not consider BMX or skateboarding

No, BMX and skateboarding are physical arts or sports. They are not extreme just because media call them.

• You need to stop imposing your minority view on wikipedia.

For your information, I am not alone read the definition of extreme by The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language.

• your other points are not worth arguing since you are willfully misinterpreting my statements

I pointed erroneous things with your definition, and you ignored them all. Carlosguitar 23:37, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

abc — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.57.16.146 (talk) 08:34, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

I would like to state that road cycling IS an extreme sport, at least if practiced in Manhattan. Whether or not it is extreme depends on where you are, and what the traffic is like, as well as the attitude of motorists to cyclists. There are plenty of injuries and deaths incurred. The speed of motorists around cyclists is key besides that of the actual participants.Anonnymos (talk) 01:13, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

As already noted, situational danger (running/biking in a high-traffic area, etc) doesn't make something an extreme sport. In this case we are talking about sports that are inherently extreme, not extreme by virtue of context or location. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 15:24, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

Reliable of X Games

Which the reliable of X Games event to define which sports are extreme sports? In my opinion they are not a reliable source. As said in the skateboarding article, it is an art that sometimes is practiced as sport in the tournaments. Carlosguitar 17:17, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

If extreme sports is a marketing term then the people doing the marketing, i.e. the organizing staff of the X-Games, have a significant say in what is an extreme sport.24.12.189.115 21:55, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

They have right use the term as marketing not to define which activities are extreme sport, that is a lot different. Carlosguitar 09:48, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

So the millions of people who watch the X-games say to themselves "oh, I love the X-games, but they aren't really extreme sports!" ? Give me a fucking break. Its called description vs. prescription. Since there is no authoritative governing body prescribing the definition of "extreme sports", the only thing you can go on is a description of what people consider to be extreme sports, which would be stuff like the X-games which draws millions of viewers to watch "extreme sports."

Oh yeah, and Carlos, just to clear things up: no, you are not an authoritative governing body even if you think wikipedia makes you one. Piss off.24.12.189.115 19:51, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Got argumentum ad populum? People say, people believe. Go ahead.

• say to themselves "oh, I love the X-games, but they aren't really extreme sports!" ?

Correct them saying that they are watching only sports which does not have anything of extreme. Because media created disfigured extreme sport term just to sell themselves.

• Oh yeah, and Carlos, just to clear things up: no, you are not an authoritative governing body even if you think wikipedia makes you one.

Where is the WP:POINT? Drop the stick and back slowly away from the horse carcass.

X Games are not reliable source because does not represent world-wide view, it use term as marketing propaganda, does not explain the means of "extreme". Carlosguitar 23:37, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Definition of Extreme Sport

Just a suggestion, the definition of extreme sport should be associated with the fact that the sport was invented for the adrenaline rush first and then competition second—as opposed to being invented for competition of skill and physical ability. I cannot think of any sport that this idea doesn't clearly define as either extreme or not so. —Preceding Signatures comment added by 24.36.192.193 (talk) 23:11, August 29, 2007 (UTC)

• ...which is why I've removed cave exploration from the list of extreme sports; for most participants there is no adrenaline, no speed, no competition. I question whether ice climbing qualifies as well... altho there may be a small subset that might be called extreme. Ian mckenzie (talk) 16:00, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Original Research

This article qualifies as a wikipedia Xtreme Xsport, as it contains almost nothing other than Original Research. If this term is used so much by the media, then there should be plenty of citations to build the article around. At the moment, the article based on citations (ie, the Wiki part) is about two sentences. Y'all need to work on getting citations in there, or the majority of the article might be deleted (for instance, by me). See WP:OR. Ratagonia (talk) 06:11, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes this article contains original research, but I do not agree with form which you removed all unreferenced statements only based on original research. Unverified content is not always original research, perhaps we can use these sources: [3] [4] [5]

Also this sentence:

At present date, there are no careful studies or statistics of deaths to separate activities with low or normal level of danger from those with high level of danger. Therefore is not even possible to categorize activities as extreme sports and the term is often used for the marketing by sport events such as X Games.

Does not need source, since I did not find a list of sports by risk factor, so it is not possible today to define what is extreme sport and what is not. The only study that I found was orthopaedic injuries to children (ages 6 to 17 made by Richard B. Chambers. Yet any of the six sports studied were never considered extreme sports. Carlosguitar ^{(Yes Executor?)} 23:23, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you Carlosguitar, for objecting. But, while the article contains many statements that we can perhaps agree are true or accurate, it is not a very encyclopedic nor wikipedic article. There are many things said that perhaps a journalist has said - and thus it could be included with a citation. Wikipedia articles are not built of statements that we editors agree are true - Wikipedia articles are built of statements that reliable sources have said, carefully editted by Wiki-acs to build an article that makes sense. So, ...

If "Extreme Sport" is prominent in the popular culture, there should be plenty of material to build a real Wikipedia article. Let's get at it! Ratagonia (talk) 01:10, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Just clarifying, I am not saying that we should build this article on statements that we agree nor I am agreeing with what have written on this article. But if you and me are not finding a careful study with a list of sports by risk factor or statistics of death, why not add this information to the article? For example this study is proving that Skateboarding is more dangerous than roller skating or in-line skating, but it is not possible to compare with study by Richard B. Chambers, since the methods used are different. Thus we do not know who is more dangerous, American Football or Skateboarding. So I think, we need at least a sentence saying how hard is measure the factual risk on sports. Carlosguitar ^{(Yes Executor?)} 08:20, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Problems

I see the "No Original Research" rule as a problem in this specific case, primarily due to a couple of factors--the relatively low number of years "Extreme Sports" have been labelled as such, and the seeming inability of fans and athletes to agree on a definition of what constitutes an extreme sport.

Contrary to the dictionary definitions cited in the article, Extreme Sports do not need to have a higher-than-normal level of danger. Equestrian riders, Kentucky Derby jockeys, and gymnasts all encounter dangers/heights/velocities which could be considered comparable to that of say, skateboard vert riders, bike vert riders, or street lugers. But you would never call equestrian, horse racing, or gymnastics "extreme sports". The conclusion I would draw is the label "Extreme" applies not only to the level of danger inherent in the sport, but also to the tendency of extreme sports to be considered 1)Unconventional 2)Flashy and 3)Counter-culture.

I would argue extreme sports have existed since long before the term did... Gladiators would surely be extreme athletes. The Polynesian long-board surfers too. The question is: Where do I find a published source that delves into this topic with enough depth that I could quote it as a source?

BTW, I'm entirely new to this Wiki thing and don't know if I should even be posting this here, but I have a lot of experience with "extreme sports" in the bike and skate arenas, so it caught my interest when I saw such a pitiful page on Extreme Sports. So maybe somebody can tell me what I can do to help clear this up?? Give me an assignment. Troydayton (talk) 00:23, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

• Yup. My opinion is that the term "extreme sport" has not yet jelled into anything other than a marketing hype term - thus a lack of published articles from which a useful wikipedia article can be paraphrased. If you want an assignment, find references to "extreme sport" in reasonable publications, assess what they are saying, paraphrase it and add it to the article, with a citation. Statements with citations can eventually replace the Original Research and Pediacal Speculation which comprises the bulk of this (rather un-useful) article. Good Luck! Ratagonia (talk) 03:00, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

The lack of published articles is really a problem, I have trying to find better sources, but I cannot find. Carlosguitar ^{(Yes Executor?)} 19:32, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

• No, dangers/heights/velocities or even hazard environment do not always make an activity more or less dangerous. What make these activity dangerours is rate of injuries or rate of deaths and this can only adressed by careful studies. There is also another problem, because you can find unconventional activities that are often (mis)categorized as extreme sport, but do not really have a high risk-factor. So I am thinking that the term extreme sport is often used as POV and OR. Carlosguitar ^{(Yes Executor?)} 19:32, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

There is another problem, I believe all sports that are competed in Olympic Games are traditional sports. But in 2008 Summer Olympics, BMX an sport often categorized as extreme sport was introduced. Would that make BMX a tradicional sport, but non-extreme? Carlosguitar ^{(Yes Executor?)} 12:11, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

A small suggestion

I'm not a regular editor, but I try to help whenever I can. Some sports are listed as extreme sports, but are not mentioned in the actual extreme sport page. For example, I actually came to the extreme page sports page from the "underwater ice hockey" page, which is categorized in its article as a kind of extreme sport. A recommendation is checking all the pages that link to the Extreme Sports page, and deciding whether such unmentioned sports need to be added to the extreme sports page, or the original page be edited to remove their extreme sports classification. Good luck!

(Darkanius (talk) 21:38, 1 November 2009 (UTC))

List of different sports

This book give a good list of extreme sports based on were they take place. Tomlinson, Joe (2004). Extreme Sports: In Search of the Ultimate Thrill. Hove: Firefly Books Ltd. ISBN 1-55297-992-X.

Access can be gained thought google books. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 04:21, 27 November 2009 (UTC)

importance of the Tomlinson book?

I added the slightly ;) ironic comments about the Tomlinson book. Either someone can explain why this book is so important, or we should better be honest that it isn't. It was portrayed as "the" classification although it seems to be just another subjective opinion. And "well, it's important because before we found it, the entire article was just POV" is not a very good reason... :o) [And talking of POV: snorkeling and any form of surfing, windsurfing, indoor climbing, etc.? Oh dear... Anyways, that kills the introductory definition about counter-culture sports, doesn't it? At least last time I checked windsurfers were considered very ordinary guys, with no more claims to a counter-culture than American football players in the US...]

And if the list should for some reason remain, maybe someone would be so awesome as to explain how "whitewater" qualifies as sport. I suppose Tomlinson was not talking about salmon fishing?... --Ibn Battuta (talk) 06:01, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Depends on how you fish them, I reckon? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.195.151.72 (talk) 00:26, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

Any other published classifications? It is one of the few books I could find on the topic. Whitewater was to refer to whitewater kayaking. Thanks and corrected.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 06:17, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your update to the article; I think that has helped already because it puts the list more into perspective! ... I still don't think it's a very meaningful classification though--does Tomlinson really call it a "classification"? Or does he simply differentiate between sports which...? (Sorry, don't have the time to look it up right now, and you probably know it anyways?) Though I'm not even sure we have to care what he says ;o) because the interesting thing to me is not at all the classification--the interesting thing is that there's a list of extreme sports. (I still don't think it's very objective at all, but at least it's a list.) So what do you think about calling it simply as that--a list/enumeration/whatever? We could still mention that Tomlinson differentiates between the three elements, but it seems a bit silly to me to make a big deal out of it. I mean, if you were to classify sports--would your main criterion be the element in or on which they're performed? And why should it be any different for extreme sports?

Finally, as for "whitewater"--does he say so? It seems odd, to say the least. Why should whitewater kayaking be more extreme than whitewater canoeing (US terminology) given that some kayakers and canoers (US terminology) use the same boats to go onto the same rivers? And is one or the other more extreme than whitewater rafting? (I'm afraid it leads back to my general criticism of any such list--namely that Tomlinson like most Wikipedia authors seems to try to decide if entire sports are "extreme". That's bound to fail because most or all of the "extreme sports" seem to be simply extreme forms of pretty un-extreme sports... Which is only my very own personal opinion, yes, I know. :o)) --Ibn Battuta (talk) 06:06, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

We should have a list of examples somewhere ( yes feel free to change it to list ). Whitewater refer to raft / canoeing / kayaking ( maybe we could just say paddling ). As long as it is WP:V feel free to add to the list. But it needs to be referenced.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 06:52, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Reproducing Tomlinson's creative lists is a copyright violation

I have removed the reproduction of Tomlinson's lists. These lists represent creative effort and are protected by copyright. Please see this essay for a broader and more informed view on the subject. WTucker (talk) 23:24, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

The recognition of Television

Being new to the game, but interested in Extreme Sports I thought where better to start. One part that I think could be touched upon in greater detail is the influence of what television and youtube have done for the sport. Whilst the term 'extreme sport' as discussed above in the page is still a problem, could it not be argued that the access that the community had through ESPN in America; the Extreme Sports Channel in Europe and the Middle East; as well as Youtube today, has significantly pushed the recognition and acceptance of Extreme Sports within society. And I am unsure in regards to sourcing, but could the rise in popularity of such channels be cited as evidence for this?

I will use for example, Tom Schaar landing the 1080 in skating, prior to the influence of TV and Viral videos, what 12 year old would be pushing the boundaries of such sports?

What do other users think?

JamesJoyce1882 (talk 10:37, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

You would need reliable, third party sources that supported your claim that the Extreme Sports Channel had a significant impact on the popularity of extreme sports. You have yet to do that. Your recently created account, along with at least four other IPs [6] [7] [8] [9] have been trying to push advertising material into this article in the last month, suggesting a possible conflict of interest. OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 16:40, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 27 April 2013

Alternative Sports Lifestyle sports

Rinehart, R.E. & Sydner, S. (Eds.) (2003). To the extreme: Alternative sports inside and out. New York: SUNY Press.

Wheaton, B. (Ed.). (2004). Understanding lifestyle sports. New York: Routledge.

I am doing research on extreme sports and would like to contribute to the page with some academic references further terms and history.This is my first request to edit so I am not sure if I am doing this correctly. Thanks

Wyrdfiona (talk) 18:04, 27 April 2013 (UTC)wyrdfiona

 Not done – Please make your request in the form of please add x, please remove y, or please change x to y. ^King Jakob _C2 22:32, 3 May 2013 (UTC)