1st Edition
Phenomenology and the Extreme Sport Experience
196 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
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Understanding the motivations behind those who partake in extreme sports can be difficult for some. If the popular conception holds that the incentive behind extreme sports participation is entirely to do with risking one’s life, then this confusion will continue to exist. However, an in-depth examination of the phenomenology of the extreme sport experience yields a much more complex picture.... Read more
1. Extreme Sports
2. Principals of Phenomenology
3. Translating Principles into Practice
4. Phenomenology and Extreme Sports: An Hermeneutic Phenomenological Methodology
5. The Risk Hypothesis
6. The Death-Wish Hypothesis
7. The ‘No Fear’ Hypothesis
8. Experience of Transformation
9. Becoming Who You Are
10. Experience of Freedom
11. Evoking the Ineffable
12. Returning to the Life-World of Extreme Sport
Biography
Eric Brymer is a Reader in the Institute of Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure at Leeds Beckett University, Leeds UK.
Robert Schweitzer is Professor of Psychology at the School of Psychology and Counselling at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
