Extreme Sports Perceived by Students of Faculties of the Physical Education, Tourisms and Recreation (P252)

Abstract

The aim of the research was to check two issues: (1) what elements, according to the students, are decisive with regarding one aspect of physical activity as extreme? (2) which sports in the surroundings are regarded as extreme? A number of 193 students (120 men students, 73 women students) of the physical education and the tourism and recreation were provided with the questionnaire surveys from the Rzeszow University (Poland). The students have associated the extreme physical activity with the one which is conceived as a danger for health and life most commonly (73%). To identify this issue they were describing it as: „danger” (21%), „ threat of health” (20%), „risk” (20%), „ threat of life” (10%). Males more often (15%) than females (5%) have associated the extreme forms of physical activity with „risk” (15%) and with „threat of health” (6%). A rock climbing is an extreme sport connected with „land” most frequently listed (28%), „diving” connected with „water” is listed by 30%, and parachuting connected with „air” — 60%.