Extreme SportsHardcore Activities Extreme enthusiasts go in for

Extreme Sports/Hardcore Activities

Extreme enthusiasts go in for such kinds of sports which make them experience an adrenaline rush. The most common prerequisite for it is danger.

Adrenaline is a hormone released in a “fight or flight” conflict. Adrenaline is naturally produced by the body to increase strength as well as reduce pain. Due to these helpful benefits scientists have synthesized adrenaline for the purpose of treating heart attacks.

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What attracts people to extreme sports 1. He has done a lot of dangerous sports because he likes to go to extremes. доходить до грани возможного 2. To take risks for no purpose is not a рисковать clever thing 3. Ann’sжелание desire to travel around the world becomes stronger and stronger. 4. He was addicted to пристраститься к heroin.

What attracts people to extreme sports 5. хорошо подумать Think twice before you do something very dangerous. 6. I just had to satisfy my curiosity, so I удовлетворять любопытство opened the box 7. Being an actor can be rather dangerous, sometimes they have to do different risky рисковать things. 8. I do sky diving for the thrill and волнение, возбуждение excitement of this sport.

What attracts people to extreme sports 9. Personally I am not a risk taker, so white рискованный человек rafting or scuba diving is not for me. 10. I think moderation in everything is the key and I never take things to the edge. дойти до грани возможного

Express your ideas why people take up doing x-treme sports. • • • to go to extreme to take things to the edge to take risks/to do risky things a risk taker a thrill seeker a daredavil to satisfy one’s curiosity to acquire self-confidence to combat inferiority complex to overcome difficulties to protest against something to demonstrate how fearless they are

Pros • make life worth living • Life on the edge produces maximum excitement • It’s much healthier to be engaged into extreme sports to avoid obesity and emotional problems that plague inactive people. • combat depression caused by eternal boredom Cons • injuries leading to disability • fatality (death) rate is increasing • people dealing with hardcore activities don’t tend to be flexible in real life • don’t calculate the risks of their actions and make other people pay for their mistakes through emotional pain or medical bills

X-treme sports are nontraditional sports characterized by high speed, high risk, danger, excitement. Think twice before you do something very dangerous.

Choose any x-treme sport and make a project using a plan. 1. History 2. Equipment 3. Rules 4. How risky it is 5. Tips for practitioners: special skills, qualities, protection from injury