title: [Crossing borders. The motivation of extreme sportsmen].
abstract: In his article "Crossing borders -- the motivation of extreme sportsmen" the author gets systematically to the bottom of the question of why extreme sportsmen voluntarily take risks and endanger themselves. Within the scope of a representative sampling 217 extreme sportsmen -- from the fields of mountain biking, trekking and free climbing, canoyning, river rafting and deep sea diving, paragliding, parachuting, bungee jumping and survival training -- give information about their personal motives. What fascinates them? The attraction of risk? The search for sensation? Or the drop out of everyday life? And what comes afterwards? Does in the end the whole life become an extreme sport? Fact is: they live extremely, because they want to move beyond well-trodden paths. To escape the boredom of everyday life they are searching for the kick, the thrill, the no-limit experience. It's about calculated risk between altitude flight and deep sea adventure.
authors.affiliation: Universität Hamburg, Hamburg.
authors.forename: H W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Opaschowski
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D005858:Germany; D009042:Motivation; D010807:Physical Endurance; D012307:Risk Factors; D012309:Risk-Taking; D013177:Sports / Q000523:psychology* / Q000639:trends*