While extreme sports share some common ground with traditional sports, that of physical movement, they are different in many ways. An overarching theme we labeled ‘leave your ego at the door,’ emerged based on four sub-themes: (1) know thy self, (2) know thy skills, (3) know the environment now, and (4) tame the ‘inner animal.’ These themes are presented and discussed in relation to performance and discovery narratives identified within elite sport, thereby shedding light on how participants’ experiences of the extreme sport of proximity wingsuit flying differ from dominant stories within traditional sports.Įxtreme sports are described as sporting activities where a mismanaged mistake or accident would most likely result in death ( Brymer and Schweitzer, 2017). This study employed a narrative approach to investigate experiences of effective performance in the extreme sport of proximity wingsuit flying. However, extreme sports are not the same as adventure sports or traditional sports. Those few studies that have attempted to explore this issue have tested models designed for traditional sport on adventure sports. For the most part research has focused on understanding motivations for participation in extreme sports and very little research has attempted to investigate the psychological structure of effective performance. In recent years there has been a rapid growth in interest in extreme sports. 3Institute of Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure, Carnegie School of Sport, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, United Kingdom.2Department of Sports and Physical Education, Faculty of Public Health, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Elverum, Norway.1Department of Physical Education & Sports Science, University of Thessaly, Trikala, Greece.Cedric Arijs 1 Stiliani Chroni 2 Eric Brymer 3* David Carless 3
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