My dear students,This week we are discussing extreme sports which are so attractive to most teenagers. There are a lot of arguments for and against extreme sports. Please, in your comments answer the questions below. Don't forget to comment on other students' posts.
What are the argument for extreme sports?
What are the arguments against extreme sports?
Do you think extreme sports should be banned because of being too dangerous?
Good luck!
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Why people are enjoy so dangerous sports? I think it's scary.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely agree with you, Mary. I don't understand people who are ready to risk their lives in order to have a few moments of pleasure.
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I don't agree with you, Mary and T.Y., because I think that if you don't try something new in your life you will never know what is best. people don't live for a long time. life quickly ends. so I think that in your life you should to try all possible things, otherwise(иначе) your life will be boring and monotonous.
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I think that sports in the second and the third video are very dangerous. I believe that it is not necessary to risk your life for the sake of pleasure.
I am not against extreme sports but I don't approve them, if you should to risk your life just for fun.
I agree with you, Ulyana. You have only one life to try everything but it's very hard to judge if extreme sports good or not. There are a lot of kinds of extreme sports, some of them are interesting but some of them are so dangerous that it terrifies me. In my opinion, extreme sports for people who aren't afraid to risk, for people who like this feelings which appears when they do extreme sports. If you you are afraid don't do it.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, nothing ventured, nothing gained.
As daily life can be boring, people are seeking for fresh feelings .Extreme sport helps them to get free of their bad emotions. Consequently, spreading extreme sport can protect society from different acts of offending. Also it can be helpful for teens, who are looking for the thrills .Secondly, if you really enjoy such sport you can unite with people, who are close spirit .In that case you can get new experience and new relationships.
ReplyDeleteI need to add that teens try to affirm themselves using whatever they want. For some teenagers traditional sport can be enough. Others need something special .And if parents don’t want them to use alcohol, drugs or go buildering, extreme sport clubs are great solution.
Some people think that media can push children to start doing something in a wrong way. So, teenagers could risk their lives .On the other hand ,they can challenge themselves and keep fit.
To sum up, I am definitely against banning extreme sports as it is choice of each person. I have to say that there is another important question about media role in spreading such sports.
Anyway, people, who are really adrenaline junkie, need to know how far they can go and to feel freedom. So I think,thrill seekers ,like the girl from the first vidio,will be fine,if they have a good pair of trainers.
DeleteI agree that people have only one life and they want to try everything.... but they are hanging at death's door. It is dangerous game with life.
ReplyDeleteLife is a game. No one knows what will happen tomorrow. One can spend life sitting at the home and than meteorite could crash into him.
DeleteGuys, I totally agree with you, we have one life and you should carry out worthy, because i wont to have something that i have tell to my grandchildren.
ReplyDeleteExactly, Polina, we have ONLY ONE life. So why take risks?
DeleteI agree with many and in my opinion an extreme sport to help people calm down and realize that they have not tried anything in this world. This causes a person to be happy and have fun. Still, let's talk about the disadvantages. Well, that's like such a fun sport like parkour. Yes to view it safe, but in actual fact, for any fine not correct movement you break your leg, arm, or more importantly - head. Well, let's summarize
ReplyDeleteFirst, extreme sports are very dangerous injury
Second, you can damage a body like the heart, because the adrenaline peculiar effect on the heart.
third great chance of death.
But I'm not going to deny it to do. Indeed, I believe that life is one and that either did not try a big mistake. Because people sometimes have nothing to do, and they take drugs smoke. That is expressed in our bright young people. I think that extreme sports is the salvation of people!
Hi! Are you Maxim?
DeleteI fully agree with the you!!
DeleteToday I saw the third video and I can say that I would never do this.
ReplyDeleteIt was very touching when the man said that you want to come back, you can die BUT you musn't die in front of your family. Oh, his mother wondering if she'd ever seen her son again.
I think I am not so brave to try this sport. Only watching the video the adrinaline bubbling in my body.
" Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you are. "
I think extreme sports are really cool! Actually, I understand people, who afraid or do not see the point in it. But I also understand people, who enjoy extreme sports. People need these sports which give out the accumulated adrenaline. As already said Kate, parents feel extreme sports the best alternative to alcohol, drugs and things like that. But some parents fell woory and fear for their child. (like Felix Baumgartner's mom, when he performed record-breaking skydive. He is sooo brave!)
ReplyDeleteAs for me, extreme sports shouldn't be banned in no case. Of course, it is dangerous to health and, in some cases, even for life, but almost everyone wants to risk, to make something that not everyone can, and I think this is right.
To a certain extent you are right that most people want to risk. But common sense stops them from taking reckless actions. I can accept the fact that people risk their lives in order to save other people's lives, but to risk just for the sake of risk ...
ReplyDeleteSpeed, excitement, danger. You can find all these in the different extreme sports that and then, just before you hit the ground or water, an elastic rope pulls you back. In skysurfing you jump out of aeroplane and use a board to “surf” the air, doing gymnastics in mid-air! And extreme sports on land can be just as dangerous.
ReplyDeleteWinter sports have always an element of danger. For example snowboarding, which has all the excitement of surfing but on snow, is more dangerous even than skiing. Probably the most dangerous of all the new winter sports is snowrafting. You sit in a rubber boat and sail down a mountain at great speed – and you can't control the boat!
Of course, water sports have always been fun. Ice diving, for those people who are absolutely crasy. You put on diving equipment and dive under a frosen lake. And, if that's not enough, you try to walk upside down on the ice! I feel cold just thinking about it.
A lot of people are not fit nowadays. It's a big problem today. If you want to feel fit you'd better go in for one kind of sport or another. I think that everyone must do all he can to be healthy. Good health is better than the best medicine. All kinds of physical exercises are very useful to make our bodies strong and to keep ourselves fit and healthy. To tell the truth I don't do sports regularly and it is not an essential part of my daily life. In the morning I do some exercises just to awake. In summer I go swimming as there is a beautiful lake with pure water where my Granny lives. In winter I swim in the swimming pool. I like to ride the bike. I shouldn't call myself a sports fan. Of course , I like to watch sports competitions on TV, like hockey or football. But most of all I admire extreme kinds of sport. Also I admire skiing championships, biathlon, swimming.
I think they are really cool.
What extreme linds of sport would you like to try and why?