Bangkok 2005
Extreme Sports
Extreme Sports
Extreme Sports is otherwise known as action sport or adventure sport. Is a name given to variations of sports is which have a high level of danger.
These activities often involve speed, height, high level of physical exertion and spectacular stunts.
These sports differ from traditional sports due to the higher number of uncontrollable conditions.
Athletes in these activities compete not only against other athletes, but also against environmental obstacles and challenges.
An example of an extreme sport would be white water rafting or bmx stunts on ramps.
Extreme sports are a relatively modern form of sports and were incorporated into the Asian Indoor Games in 2005.
List of disciplines
- BMX Freestyle
- Inline Stunt
- Skateboard
- Sports Climbing
Bmx Freestyle is ussing bicycles originally designed for bicycle motorcross racing, to perform highly creative tricks.
The freestyle Bikes uses a 20 inches wheels,frame size but the top tube is 20-22 inches long.
The competitors try to perform dificult tricks in various catigories and and points are awarded acording to the level of deficulty and execution of the trick.
The bikes used for defrent site are defrent in parts, some have heavy grip tyers and some have wheelbase tyers.
The bikes sometimes comes without breakes as the rider might requier for a trick he would love to execute.
List of events
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men
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STUNT PARK
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BEST TRICK
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BIG AIR
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FLATLAND
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mixed
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BIG AIR
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FLATLAND
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PARK
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VERT
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PARK BEST TECHNICAL
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Inline sports are sports that use roller skates or similar.Roller skating is where the athlete travels on smooth terrain with roller skates as fast as possible when racing. Skates come in two basic varieties quad inline skates which have 4 wheels inline down the middle of the sole of the boot.
This means there are different events for the different skates such as speed skating, Other sports can also be played on skates for example roller hockey. This category of sports can also cover other events such as skateboarding as it involves wheels.
Inline Sports were incorporated into the Asian Games in 2010
List of events
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men
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STUNT PARK
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BEST TRICK
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BIG AIR
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mixed
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BIG AIR
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PARK
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PARK BEST TECHNICAL
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VERT
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Skateboarding is the act of riding and performing tricks using a skateboard.
The skateboard is a flat wood with four wheels and it could also be shaped in deferent sizes acording to the skateborder.
The skateboard started in the mid 19 centuries where it was used as a suplement for surfing when the waves are flat which later became a popular sport amongs the youth.
Points are calculated by a panel of jurges. it is awarded acording to the level of dificulty of the tricks performed and acuracy of the routing.
List of events
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men
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PARK
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PARK BEST TECHNICAL
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GAME OF SKATE
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STREET
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women
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PARK
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STREET
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Sport climbing is a style of rock climbing which requires permanent anchors fixed to the rock for protection, like bolts.
Sport climbing requires lots of strength, endurance gymnastic ability, risk and self-sufficiency.
External equipments are used to provide safety but not to aid the athlete to go higher. The sport is considered to be a form of free climbing.
The equipments used in sport climbing includes a helmet, dynamic rope, quickdraws, belay device, climbing harnesses, runners, climbing shoes, chalk bag.
A rope is tied to the person who is to lead the sport and the loose end of the rope by a belayer.
As each of the bolt is reached along the route, the climber attaches a quickdraw to the bolt, and then clips the rope through the hanging end of the quickdraw this will now protect the climber in the event of fall. There is a two bolt anchor that can be used to return the climber to the ground.
The rocks that produce good sport climb include limestone, quartzite and granite.
List of events
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men
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LEAD CLIMBING
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SPEED CLIMBING
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SPEED RELAY
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BOULDER, LEAD & SPEED COMBINED
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SPEED WORLD RECORD INDIVIDUAL
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SPEED WORLD RECORD TEAM RELAY
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BOULDERING
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women
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SPEED CLIMBING
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SPEED RELAY
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BOULDER, LEAD & SPEED COMBINED
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SPEED WORLD RECORD INDIVIDUAL
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SPEED WORLD RECORD TEAM RELAY
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BOULDERING
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LEAD CLIMBING
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Related links
Sports Committee
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Sports and Environment Committee
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Sports for All Committee
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Sports Federations
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Asian Federation
Asian Extreme Sports Federation