Phenomenology and the Extreme Sport Experience

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Eric Brymer Robert Schweitzer (Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Australia)

Phenomenology and the Extreme Sport Experience

Eric Brymer, Robert Schweitzer (Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Australia)

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Routledge
16 March 2017

Phenomenology & Existentialism; Extreme sports

Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

"Understanding the motivations behind those who partake in extreme sports can be difficult for some. If the popular conception holds that the incentive behind extreme sports participation is entirely to do with risking one’s life, then this confusion will continue to exist. However, an in-depth examination of the phenomenology of the extreme sport experience yields a much more complex picture.

This book revisits the definition of extreme sports as those activities where a mismanaged mistake or accident would most likely result in death. Extreme sports are not necessarily synonymous with risk and participation may not be about risk-taking. Participants report deep inner transformations that influence world views and meaningfulness, feelings of coming home and authentic integration as well as a freedom beyond the everyday. Phenomenologically, these experiences have been interpreted as transcendent of time, other, space and body. Extreme sport participation therefore points to a more potent, life-enhancing endeavour worthy of further investigation. This book adopts a broad hermeneutic phenomenological approach to critique the assumed relationship to risk-taking, the death wish and the concept of ""No Fear"" in extreme sports, and repositions the experience in a previously unexplored manner.

This is valuable reading for students and academics interested in Sports Psychology, Social Psychology, Health Psychology, Tourism, Leisure Studies and the practical applications of phenomenology."

By: Eric Brymer, Robert Schweitzer (Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Australia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9781138957619
ISBN 10: 1138957615
Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Pages: 180
Publication Date: 16 March 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Extreme Sports 2. Principals of Phenomenology 3. Translating Principles into Practice 4. Phenomenology and Extreme Sports: An Hermeneutic Phenomenological Methodology 5. The Risk Hypothesis 6. The Death-Wish Hypothesis 7. The ‘No Fear’ Hypothesis 8. Experience of Transformation 9. Becoming Who You Are 10. Experience of Freedom 11. Evoking the Ineffable 12. Returning to the Life-World of Extreme Sport

Eric Brymer is a Reader in the Institute of Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure at Leeds Beckett University, Leeds UK. Robert Schweitzer is Professor of Psychology at the School of Psychology and Counselling at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.

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Eric Brymer, Robert Schweitzer (Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Australia)

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