Genereaux, Bruce. Beyond the comfort zone; confessions of an extreme sports junkie.Class Five Press (6 Ledyard Lane, Hanover, NH 03755; www.classfivepress.com). 216p. illus. maps. index. c2002.0-9725173-2-4. $1795. SA "Extreme sports extreme sports Sports events characterized by high speed or high risk. Such sports include aggressive inline skating, wakeboarding, street luge, skateboarding, and freestyle bicycle events (wherein tricks such as back flips are performed on a bicycle). " is a phrase heard in today's society, where speed and movement are the main ingredients for success. Media outlets such as television and movies now feature extreme sports on a regular basis; shows like Fear Factor, which features ordinary people participating in unusual sporting events, are popular. Viewers often ask the question, "What motivates people to push the limits?" In Beyond the Comfort Zone, Bruce Genereaux presents his own psychological profile and rationale for challenging nature, analyzing key characteristics of his own personality, which he identifies on the front cover as "confessions of an extreme sports junkie junkie Popular health A popular term for a person, usually an IV narcotic abusing addict, whose life is disorganized vis-á-vis family and societal structure, whose existence revolves around obtaining–often through theft, prostitution or other illicit ." He highlights his sports activities and near-death experiences while climbing Yosemite's El Capitan El Cap·i·tan A peak, 2,308.5 m (7,569 ft) high, in the Sierra Nevada of central California. Its dramatic exposed monolith rises some 1,098 m (3,600 ft) above the floor of the Yosemite Valley. in California and the Big Rock Candy rock candy n. A hard confection that is made by cooling a concentrated sugar syrup into large clear crystals around a piece of string or a stick. Noun 1. Mountain in Colorado. His mountain climbing adventures are matched by equally harrowing kayak rides down the Clavey River and Dry Meadow Creek, also in California, which are classified as Level 5 kayaking locales. Genereaux doesn't stop there: he adds extreme skiing and adventure racing (biking) to the mix. His descriptions of the coast of New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. and the Patagonia Region of Chile are vivid and powerful. Tom Adamich, INFOhio Specialist, Cuyahoga Falls, OH |
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