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==Mortality, health, and thrill== {{see also|micromort}} Extreme sports may be perceived as extremely dangerous, conducive to fatalities, near-fatalities and other serious injuries. The perceived risk in an extreme sport has been considered a somewhat necessary part of its appeal,<ref>{{cite web|last=Smallwood|first=John|title=In extreme sports, the X-factor is death|url=https://www.inquirer.com/philly/columnists/john_smallwood/20130203_John_Smallwood__In_extreme_sports__the_X-factor_is_death.html?outputType=amp|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304060808/http://articles.philly.com/2013-02-03/sports/36723401_1_extreme-sports-snowmobile-backflip|archive-date=2016-03-04|access-date=11 May 2013}}</ref> which is partially a result of pressure for athletes to make more money and provide maximum entertainment.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://money.msn.com/now/post.aspx?post=1ef3fc34-dc7b-4421-974f-d3b7b37e8006 |title = Recent deaths draw attention to extreme sports |last = Kennedy |first = Bruce |access-date = 11 May 2013 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>[[File:windsurf-wipeout.jpg|thumb|400px|While attempting a forward loop in overpowered storm conditions off the coast of [[Cantabria]], Spain, a [[windsurfer]] jumping waves gets catapulted into a high double flip.]] Extreme sports is a sub-category of sports that are described as any kind of sport "of a character or kind farthest removed from the ordinary or average".<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Willig|first=Carla|date=2008|title=A Phenomenological Investigation of the Experience of Taking Part in 'Extreme Sports'|url=http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/14931/|journal=Journal of Health Psychology|volume=13|issue=5|pages=690β702|doi=10.1177/1359105307082459|pmid=18519442|s2cid=1533848}}</ref> These kinds of sports often carry out the potential risk of serious and permanent physical injury and even death.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|author1=Brymer, E.|author2=Schweitzer, R.|name-list-style=amp|date=2013|title=Extreme sports are good for your health: A phenomenological understanding of fear and anxiety in extreme sport.|url=http://eprints.qut.edu.au/55275/|journal=Journal of Health Psychology|volume=18|issue=4|pages=477β487|doi=10.1177/1359105312446770|pmid=22689592|orig-year=2012|s2cid=45943617|access-date=2017-08-30|archive-date=2017-08-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830195021/http://eprints.qut.edu.au/55275/|url-status=dead}}</ref> However, these sports also have the potential to produce drastic benefits on mental and physical health and provide opportunity for individuals to engage fully with life.<ref name=":1" /> Extreme sports trigger the release of the hormone [[adrenaline]], which can facilitate performance of stunts.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Globus|first=S|date=1997|title=X-games: Are you equipped for the extreme? (high-risk sports).|journal=Current Health 2}}</ref> It is believed that the implementation of extreme sports on mental health patients improves their perspective and recognition of aspects of life.<ref name=":0" /> In outdoor adventure sports, participants get to experience the emotion of intense thrill, usually associated with the extreme sports.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Buckley|first=Ralf C.|date=29 June 2018|title=To Analyze Thrill, Define Extreme Sports|journal=Frontiers in Psychology|volume=9|pages=1216|doi=10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01216|pmc=6066573|pmid=30087633|doi-access=free}}</ref> Even though some extreme sports present a higher level of risk, people still choose to embark in the experience of extreme sports for the sake of the adrenaline. According to [[Sigmund Freud]], we have an instinctual 'death wish', which is a subconscious inbuilt desire to destroy ourselves, proving that in the seek for the thrill, danger is considered pleasurable.<ref>{{Cite web|date=30 January 2019|title=Most dangerous extreme sports: Risk your life for a thrill?|url=https://awe365.com/most-dangerous-extreme-sports-risk-your-life-for-a-thrill/|website=AWE365}}</ref>
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