People Enjoying Great Outdoors.The appeal of the great outdoors has never been stronger, says the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association The Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association (SGMA) is a trade association that represents sporting goods manufacturers, retailers, and marketers. Founded in 1906, as of 2007 it had more than 1,000 members representing over 3,000 business locations and employing more than 375,000 . According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. their updated study, Outdoor Recreation in America, more and more people are enjoying outdoor activities. This is good news for camps as well, especially if you are interested in expanding your program to include more adult programs, family camp programs, or winter programming. Listed below are some of the noteworthy trends: * When asked to respond to the question, "Which is my favorite My Favorite is an independent synthpop band from Long Island, New York. They released two CDs: Love at Absolute Zero and Happiest Days of Our Lives. My Favorite broke up on September 14, 2005, when singer Andrea Vaughn left the band. sport or activity?," five out of the top twelve responses were for outdoor pursuits. Those five activities were hunting, RV camping, snowboarding, horseback riding, and downhill skiing. * More than 22 million Americans participated on a "frequent" basis (15+ days a year) in outdoor activities associated with camps, trails, and mountains, and another 16.2 million were "frequent" fishermen (freshwater or saltwater). * Since 1987, there has been a 15.9 percent increase in the number of tent campers -- from 35.2 million in 1987 to 40.8 million in 1999. * While hiking (day and overnight) has a broad appeal to all age groups, overnight hikers tend to be younger. * Nearly 50 percent of all day hikers have been involved in the activity for at least a decade. * The profile on mountain biking mountain biking Sports medicine A sport in which participants use specialized bicycles to navigate rough, steep trails covered with unforgiving rocks Injury risk Concussions, fractures, death. See Extreme sport, Novelty seeking behavior. is skewed skewed curve of a usually unimodal distribution with one tail drawn out more than the other and the median will lie above or below the mean. skewed Epidemiology adjective Referring to an asymmetrical distribution of a population or of data toward males under the age of thirty-four. * Target shooting participation (either rifle or pistol) ranks number one in shooting sports with 18.3 million participants. * While downhill skiing ranks number one in snow sports (13.9 million participants), snowboarding is the only snow sport to have exhibited any growth since 1990. * The top five water sports water sports Urophilia, see there are canoeing (12.8 million), snorkeling (10.7 million), jet skiing (1 million), water skiing (10 million), and sailing (5.3 million). * Of the 12.8 million canoers, about 60 percent participated three days or less in 1999. Nearly 50 percent of all "frequent" canoers are younger than seventeen, implying summer camp experiences or vacations. * Among water sports, surfing and wakeboarding Wakeboarding is a surface water sport which involves riding a wakeboard over the surface of a body of water behind a boat. It was developed from a combination of water skiing, snow boarding and surfing techniques. rank one and two with the largest number of "average days of participation," with seventeen and twelve respectively. Source: Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association |
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