An adrenaline junkie is a person that appears to be addicted to the affects of adrenaline. Many people that participate in extreme sports are often considered to be adrenaline junkies or to have mild cases of seeking adrenaline rushes. Adrenaline is a hormone that comes from the amino acids and plays a role in the [...]

Bossaball is fast becoming one of the world’s most popular new sports. It falls under the extreme sports moniker and is played with great athletic skill. The sport is a mix of beach volleyball, gymnastics, Capoeira, and football. It is played on a court that is a combination of various inflatables, trampolines, and a net [...]

BASE jumping, simply put, is the fine art of using a parachute to jump from fixed objects. It is by far one of the most dangerous of the extreme sports and is becoming popular at an alarming rate among young daredevils and others with a wish to descend with a parachute from tall buildings. In [...]

The X Games is an annual event that features a variety of extreme sports. It airs on a few different television stations and is enjoying increasing popularity among viewers, creating a boom for advertisers that want to zero in on the youth demographic. The games are broken up into seasons that focus on the different [...]

The youthful demographic that extreme sports are marketed towards as a lifestyle often with to push themselves in terms of physical activity or be near those that do. The distinction between what makes an extreme sport “extreme” as opposed to a normal avenue of that sport is generally associated with how the sport is marketed. [...]

Extreme tourism is catching on as tourists become more and more adventurous when they go on vacation. Many adventurous people even take vacations to known areas at which extreme sports opportunities are present and at which the extreme lifestyle is known as a part of life. Extreme tourism is really taking off as people take [...]

Sports featuring danger, speed, heights, high levels of physical exertion, specialized gear or equipment, or spectacular stunts can all fall under the umbrella of an extreme sport. These sports are gaining popularity, especially among the youth of North American culture, and often lead to dangerous emulations of the events within the sport. These emulations are [...]