Extreme sports in Malaysia Types of extreme sport in Malaysia

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Title General Purpose Specific Purpose Central Purpose 1.4.1 Introduction

: Extreme sports in Malaysia types of extreme sports in Malaysia : To inform : To inform my audience about extreme sports : To inform my audience extreme sports in Malaysia

Extreme sports has become one of the many choices that people has to make as their favourite pastime. Many sports facilities centre and recreational area has provided ways to make it easier for the public to enjoy extreme sports. They create packages that enable people to experience this activity without having to go to all the trouble of finding a private jet on their own just to go skydiving or things as such.

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Types of extreme sports 1.4.2.1 Sky Diving Also known as parachuting. It is an act of the sport of jumping from an airplane at a moderate or high altitude and freefalling and using one's body to control direction or movements before opening one's parachute. Hiking - to walk or march a great distance, especially through rural areas, for pleasure, exercise, military training, or the like. Skate boarding - the act of riding a skate board. It can be carried out at a certain skate boarding alley or just at the streets.

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How did it starts to be commercialized globally 1.4.3.1 The term is first used by Ernest Hemingway. The phrase is There is only 3 sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. When he used the word sport, he means an activity which people has a risk of being killed by doing it. Other usual sports are called games The term is then widely used by X Games which is held a few decades back. It is a multi-sport event created and developed by ESPN (Entertainment and Sports Programming Network ).

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X Games allows participants from all around the world to take part in their event. In order to gain support from many countries, they have done many promotion like TV commercials, going to different countries to commercialize extreme sports and many more. ESPN also creates a channel, ESPN Star Sports to show live telecast from where the X Games is happening. The venture has its base in Singapore and operates 17 ESPN and STAR Sports branded networks throughout Asia, transmitting in 5 languages (English, Cantonese, Hindi, Korean and Mandarin).

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1.4.4 References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN_Star_Sports http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_sports http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sky+diving