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    Psychology and the Extreme Sport Experience

    The term ‘extreme sports’ has become synonymous with a variety of nontraditional adventure experiences. Terminologies such as ‘whiz sports’, ‘free sports’, ‘adventure sports’, ‘lifestyle sports’, ‘action sport...

    Eric Brymer, Susan Houge Mackenzie in Extreme Sports Medicine (2017)

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    An Ecological Dynamics Framework for the Acquisition of Perceptual–Motor Skills in Climbing

    Uncertainty in extreme sports performance environments, like rock and ice climbing, provides considerable psycho-emotional and physiological demands which challenge the acquisition of perceptual–motor skills. ...

    Ludovic Seifert, Dominic Orth, Chris Button, Eric Brymer in Extreme Sports Medicine (2017)

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    Phenomenology and Extreme Sports in Natural Landscapes

    In the early 1900s, Husserl (1970) reminded us of the imperative to return to the Lebensweldt, or life-world. He was preoccupied with the crisis of Western science which alienated the experiencing-self from the w...

    Eric Brymer, Robert D. Schweitzer in Landscapes of Leisure (2015)