ENS 438 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Motocross
Document Summary
Alternative sports were formerly considered underground, risky, dangerous, and inaccessible, but are are now going increasingly mainstream. These extreme sports such as, snowboarding, surfing, skating, and motocross have been emerging and gaining support due to the documentation and publication of the risk. This documentation creates a surge of drama and allows the observers to live the risk with them. This high risk creates relevance and has become the only way to gain professional success, creating a perception that risk is the new norm as the new narrative in alternative sports. This concept is far different than that for traditional sports. Traditional sports were centrally focused on a team foundation rather than an individual one like in current extreme sports. These traditional sports existed before the time of digital technology and the main goal was to gain professional success through skill.