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Extreme sports in Malaysia

Types of extreme sport in Malaysia

1.1 Title : Extreme sports in Malaysia types of extreme sports in Malaysia

1.2 General Purpose : To inform

1.3 Specific Purpose : To inform my audience about extreme sports

1.4 Central Purpose : To inform my audience extreme sports in Malaysia

1.4.1 Introduction

Extreme sports has become one of the many choices that people has to make as

their favourite pastime. Many sports facilities centre and recreational area hasprovided ways to make it easier for the public to enjoy extreme sports. They create

packages that enable people to experience this activity without having to go to all

the trouble of finding a private jet on their own just to go skydiving or things as such.

1.4.2 Types of extreme sports

1.4.2.1 Sky Diving Also known as parachuting. It is an act of the sport of

jumping from an airplane at a moderate or high altitude and free-

falling and using one's body to control direction or movements

before opening one's parachute.

1.4.2.2 Hiking - to walk or march a great distance, especially through rural

areas, for pleasure, exercise, military training, or the like.

1.4.2.3 Skate boarding - the act of riding a skate board. It can be carried out

at a certain skate boarding alley or just at the streets.

1.4.3 How did it starts to be commercialized globally

1.4.3.1 The term is first used by Ernest Hemingway. The phrase is There is

only 3 sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the

rest are merely games. When he used the word sport, he means

an activity which people has a risk of being killed by doing it. Other

usual sports are called games

1.4.3.2 The term is then widely used by X Games which is held a few

decades back. It is a multi-sport event created and developed by

ESPN (Entertainment and Sports Programming Network ).

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1.4.3.3 X Games allows participants from all around the world to take part

in their event. In order to gain support from many countries, they

have done many promotion like TV commercials, going to different

countries to commercialize extreme sports and many more.

1.4.3.4 ESPN also creates a channel, ESPN Star Sports to show live telecast

from where the X Games is happening. The venture has its base in

Singapore and operates 17 ESPN and STAR Sports branded networks

throughout Asia, transmitting in 5 languages (English, Cantonese,

Hindi, Korean and Mandarin).

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References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN_Star_Sports

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_sports

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sky+diving

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