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Physical Education: Extreme Sports

•  Warm-up

Look at these pictures. Are they ordinary or extreme sports? Can you give the definition of ‘extreme sports’?

• An extreme sport is one that is done in a way that has much more risk and so is more dangerous than an ordinary form of the sport.

                 (Longman Exams Dictionary)

• An extreme sport is a very dangerous sport or activity which some people do for fun.

(Oxford Wordpower Dictionary)

•  Matching activity

BASE jumping                      rollerblading down a mountain

bungee jumping                     jumping out of a plane with a surfboard

                                               attached to your feet

free-climbing                         a jump from a bridge or building.

                                               A jumper is attached to the  

                                               bridge/building by an elastic band

off-piste in-lining                   a parachute jumping from a building

sky-surfing                             climbing a mountain without ropes

•                      Listening

Some days ago I received this letter from Australia. My very good friend lives and works there. Listen to an extract from her letter.

 …My sons are very brave boys. They spend a lot of their free time on the beach. I worry about them. They are good swimmers but their new hobby is terrible. Can you imagine? They do extreme sports! They enjoy surfing. I’m in despair. Could you advise me anything?

Natasha enclosed some photos. Look at them, please. Aren’t the boys happy?

Why is my friend worried? What would you advise her?

•  Interesting Facts about Surfing

•        The first official surf contest took place at Corona Del Mar, California in 1928.
•        George Freeth is the person who brought surfing to California.
•        Surfing was originated by the oceanic culture island of Polynesia and was first discovered by Captain Cook in 1778.
•        There are two types of surfing; short boarding and long boarding.
•        Short boarding is considered harder than long boarding because it requires more effort.
•        Kelly Slater is the highest paid surfer. He brought in three million dollars as the ninth time world champion surfer in 2009.
•        The first university to offer a degree in surfing is the University of Plymouth.
•        When the waves get over the surfer, it’s called “getting barrelled” because you can’t go neither left nor right; just straight.
•        The biggest wave recorded was 530 meters in Lituya bay, southern coast of Alaska.
•        The longest ride ever done on a wave was 37 minutes in Pororoca.

•  Watching video  

Watch the video “Best of Extreme Sport” and complete the Mind-Map with the kinds of extreme sports from the film.