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Open AccessInjuries and illnesses related to dinghy-sailing on hydrofoiling boats
Hydrofoil technology has changed sailing, significantly increasing its speed and resulting in spectacularity and mass media interest. Although high speed can expose participants to a risk of high-energy trauma...
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Open AccessUnderstanding Action and Adventure Sports Participation—An Ecological Dynamics Perspective
Previous research has considered action and adventure sports using a variety of associated terms and definitions which has led to confusing discourse and contradictory research findings. Traditional narratives...
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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...
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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. ...
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Adventurous Physical Activity Environments: A Mainstream Intervention for Mental Health
Adventurous physical activity has traditionally been considered the pastime of a small minority of people with deviant personalities or characteristics that compel them to voluntarily take great risks purely f...
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Designing Environments to Enhance Physical and Psychological Benefits of Physical Activity: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
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Designing Affordances for Health-Enhancing Physical Activity and Exercise in Sedentary Individuals
Ideas in ecological dynamics have profound implications for designing environments that offer opportunities for physical activity (PA), exercise and play in sedentary individuals. They imply how exercise scien...
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Physical, Psychological and Emotional Benefits of Green Physical Activity: An Ecological Dynamics Perspective
Increasing evidence supports the multiple benefits to physical, psychological and emotional wellbeing of green physical activity, a topic of increasing interest in the past decade. Research has revealed a syne...
