Cancelling the events seems entirely opposed to the nature of extreme sports and their participants.
FORBES: X Games To Cancel Snowmobile Freestyle Event Following Caleb Moore's Death
Stephan traces his entrepreneurial roots to his love of extreme sports growing up in Strasbourg, France.
The company produces bullet-resistant quarter-inch thick Kevlar padding tough enough to withstand the most extreme sports blows.
FORBES: Meet The Bullet-Resistant Sports Clothes Breaking Your Fall
But being on ESPN has given extreme sports a new audience and exposure beyond the MTV generation.
One ready-made market, suggests chief technology officer Per Slycke, would be new skateboarders and other extreme sports enthusiasts.
Cahyo Alkantana, 46, has been in the documentary filmmaking business for 15 years, specializing in adventure, nature and extreme sports.
FORBES: Cahyo Alkantana's Indonesian Playground Beneath the Earth
For now, extreme sports are hot, with million-dollar sponsors and big-budget TV shots lagging behind what the athletes themselves earn.
For those who keep track of these sorts of things, take note: ESPN no longer has a monopoly on extreme sports.
In extreme sports, you have to be cognizant of everything you do because, simply, you could die if you slip up.
There was no joy, no extreme sports, no blue water spilling over wings and no rocking soundtrack oh no no no.
Married with three children, he also a reputation for enjoying extreme sports.
But the truth is that extreme sports earn the title for a reason, and the danger involved is what makes them so appealing to fans.
FORBES: Snowmobiler Caleb Moore Dies Following X Games Crash
Ralph Lauren, shaken by falling earnings, is diversifying into extreme sports-wear.
Rob Wells represents some of the top athletes in extreme sports.
GoPro cameras have become the go-to item for filming extreme sports.
FORBES: Foxconn Buys Stake In Camera Maker GoPro, Turning Founder Into A Billionaire
And he plans to launch a quarterly magazine in Europe filled with stories and pictures evoking the Red Bull world: music, extreme sports, night life, social trends.
The ancient myth has been updated that is, pulped and misshapen and the result is driven less by the call of destiny than by an incurable addiction to extreme sports.
The second autumn trend to be noticed is extreme sports hang-gliding, surfing, martial arts, kickboxing, for example which appeal to the sought-after audience of men aged between 18 and 34.
The international energy drink maker owns a NASCAR team, a Major League Soccer (MLS) team and sponsors a slew of extreme sports and other professional athletes around the globe.
FORBES: Red Bull Treats Pro Gamers Like Dave "Walshy" Walsh Like Real Athletes
The country's first commercial drop zone was established in 1990 in Queenstown and the activity has grown quickly ever since, partly thanks to New Zealand's reputation for extreme sports.
GoPro cameras are a favorite with extreme sports enthusiasts.
FORBES: Foxconn Buys Stake In Camera Maker GoPro, Turning Founder Into A Billionaire
Over the past few years the energy drink maker, which has become a mainstay of extreme sports athletes, has treated its pro gamers just like its soccer players, skateboarders, surfers and NFL players.
Since then RipeTV has signed up such content partners as Destroy Entertainment, which produces extreme sports and CKY ("can't kill yourself")stunt videos, and Chum, which owns a spate of popular cable channels in Canada.
Red Bull messengers are usually extreme sports professionals.
Mr. Ybarra is the Journal's extreme sports correspondent.
WSJ: Banff Mountain Festival | A Nature for the Great Outdoors | By Michael J. Ybarra
No, your existing fitness tracker probably isn't good enough -- not if you frequently participate in "extreme sports" and wish to log every possible measurement as you cycle, snowboard, surf or just go about your day.
So unlike a sport like football or hockey that can turn to rule changes to improve player safety, extreme sports are only going to become more dangerous as participants push the limits of what humans can do.
FORBES: Snowmobiler Caleb Moore Dies Following X Games Crash
This month a mob of 250 youngsters, many of them sporting baggy clothes, multicolored hairdos and multiple piercings, will invade the refined Aspen Mountain resort to appear at the Winter X Games, part of ESPN's twice-yearly "extreme sports" lollapalooza.
The shark-diving business was the dream of her late partner Jimmy Hall, an extreme-sports enthusiast.
应用推荐