U of U Study being done on Extreme sports participants. PLEASE TAKE THIS SURVEY

[Doomedty]

Hey guys Im doing research on extreme sports partisipants please take this quick survey. This is not an add scheme it is endorsed by the University of Utah. I am a student. Thank you :)

https://humutah.co1.qualtrics.com/SE...uGDTaNNPnvtKJL

[Doomedty]

Especially those who have had accidents in canyons, while climbing or skying or during any extreme sport.

[Doomedty]

I'm a U of U student doing research on Extreme sports participants (like myself) and need you to take this survey please. https://humutah.co1.qualtrics.com/SE...uGDTaNNPnvtKJL

Thats everyone who climbs, canyoneers, skydives or base jumps, extreme down hill snowboarding or skiing, ya know the stuff that can kill you. :) thank you.

[ratagonia]

what does this have to do with canyoneering?????

[Scott Card]

Canyoneering is just hiking with ropes, isn't it?

[rockgremlin]

Canyoneering isn't an extreme sport....just ask Iceaxe.

[Scott Card]

I'm with Tom. As I posted in the General section, isn't canyoneering just hiking with ropes? I've never had an accident nor would I consider canyoneering "extreme". Heck, I'm an old dude and I do it. Seems like we have way too many gray beards in this sport to be extreme.

[rockgremlin]

Canyoneering is just hiking with ropes, isn't it?

LOL, or Scott Card apparently.

I think if you polled most of the folks on this board, MOST would consider canyoneering not extreme....

[Iceaxe]

Canyoneering isn't an extreme sport....just ask Iceaxe.

If you consider canyoneering an extreme sport you are doing it wrong.

Tap'n on my Galaxy G3

[Byron]

Sure it's extreme...extremely fun!

[Iceaxe]

I have had a lot of friends and acquaintances get killed racing cars and motorcycles, but none canyoneering, it's funny how some sports get tagged as extreme.

Compared to some of the sports I've been involved with canyoneering is nothing more then wading in the kiddie pool.


Tap'n on my Galaxy G3

[hank moon]

Extreme Sport?

Canyoneering is neither

Why take a survey with an "extremely" biased premise embedded in the title?

Commuting - now that's proper death sport!

[deagol]

Especially those who have had accidents in canyons, while climbing or skying or during any extreme sport.

you mean skiing ?

IMHO, extreme sports (just for example):
base jumping
wingsuiting
expedition kayaking
certain types of skiing/snowboarding
gator wrestling
etc...

Extreme sports focus on adrenaline, Canyoneering shouldn't have too much of that. unless something goes wrong.

[hank moon]

....

[hank moon]

Back in the days of Amundsen,
Scott and Shackleton,



scientific exploration of Antarctica began,



and this opening of the unknown continent
is their great achievement.



But one thing about the early explorers
does not feel right.



The obsession to be the first one
to set his foot on the South Pole.



It was for personal fame
and the glory of the British Empire.



This is Shackleton's original hut,
preserved unchanged for 100 years.



But, in a way, from the South Pole onwards



there was no further expansion possible,



and the Empire started to fade
into the abyss of history.



It all looks now like an extinct supermarket.



On a cultural level,
it meant the end of adventure.



Exposing the last unknown spots
of this Earth was irreversible,



but it feels sad
that the South Pole or Mount Everest



were not left in peace in their dignity.



It may be a futile wish
to keep a few white spots on our maps,



but human adventure, in its original sense,
lost its meaning,



became an issue for the
Guinness Book of World Records.



Scott and Amundsen
were clearly early protagonists,



and from there on
it degenerated into absurd quests.



A Frenchman crossed the Sahara Desert
in his car set in reverse gear,



and I am waiting for the first barefoot runner
on the summit of Everest



or the first one hopping into the South Pole
on a pogo stick.


- From Warner Herzog's film, "Encounters at the End of the World"

[Iceaxe]

This one freaked me out a little bit....


I spent part of the morning talking with Barry Bryant while he was getting ready to make a world land speed record attempt in 2009. Just before he climbed into his race car I snapped this picture of him.




15 minutes later he was dead....

[deagol]

Anything can be made "extreme" - ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gds759lNSRY

[2065toyota]

Just because you / I / we don't find it extreme, to the general public it is considered extreme.

Tom, how many active canyoneers did you tell me you estimated there were, 3500?

Now that makes a pretty small percentage of the general population.

Take the survey or not I figure, but no need to criticize.

[hank moon]

Kody, my concern is that a survey of this type can serve to perpetuate the public perception of which you speak, which is not good for the health of the activity, IMO.

BTW canyoning, climbing, etc. are considered normal (i.e. non-extreme), family-oriented activities in many areas of the world, most notably Europe.

[Iceaxe]

FYI: I merged the two threads together so we can keep the discussion all in one place.