Uhhh... an "extreme sport" should be defined as a sport so dangerous that there are very few known participants. Stuff like speed solo climbing (Dan Osman) and the like. Calling paintball or unicycling "extreme sports" is just fucking stupid to the *extreme*.

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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))[reply]

Why do you think extreme sports came to be?

Marketing. Extreme sports is just a name that sounds "cool" in advertisements and TV-programming lists. Tp 11:17, 12 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

There is a lot more to extreme sports than "just a name that sounds 'cool' in advertisements and TV-programming lists." Extreme sports are a whole different genre of sports and sometimes aren’t given the respect that they deserve. If the current trend continues, extreme sports will become more and more popular games. Look at snowboarding for example, it used to be just another extreme sport but in 2002 it was introduced in the Winer Olympics. 21:46, 23 May 2005

I think there is an issue here with formally constituted 'extreme' activities' groups and what the general public might regard as being an 'extreme' pastime/event/activity. Just like the term 'sport' itself; we can't limit discussion/pages to simply what has official bodies. I guess some time ago bungee-jumping was outside regulation..? ;o) Grroin 17:26, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

An Extreme Sport is any sport. All sports, if played to the best of your ability, are your extreme sport, I don't care if it is checkers. I personally surf, downhill skateboard, scuba, paintball (guns turned all the way up), run, lift weights, practice martial arts, drink beer, am going to take up skydiving (as soon as I can afford the $2,500 for the certification and 25 jumps), play pool (not very well, and not very often) swim, snorkle, fish, fuck, fight, and fear God, all of which are extreme, because I do them well.

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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.

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...

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)[reply]

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

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

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)