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Understanding Action and Adventure Sports Participation—An Ecological Dynamics Perspective
Sports Medicine - Open, Vol.3(1), 18
26/04/2017
PMCID: PMC5406377
PMID: 28447331
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Abstract
Previous research has considered action and adventure sports using a variety of associated terms and definitions which has led to confusing discourse and contradictory research findings. Traditional narratives have typically considered participation exclusively as the pastime of young people with abnormal characteristics or personalities having unhealthy and pathological tendencies to take risks because of the need for thrill, excitement or an adrenaline ‘rush’. Conversely, recent research has linked even the most extreme forms of action and adventure sports to positive physical and psychological health and well-being outcomes. Here, we argue that traditional frameworks have led to definitions, which, as currently used by researchers, ignore key elements constituting the essential merit of these sports. In this paper, we suggest that this lack of conceptual clarity in understanding cognitions, perception and action in action and adventure sports requires a comprehensive explanatory framework, ecological dynamics which considers person-environment interactions from a multidisciplinary perspective. Action and adventure sports can be fundamentally conceptualized as activities which flourish through creative exploration of novel movement experiences, continuously expanding and evolving beyond predetermined environmental, physical, psychological or sociocultural boundaries. The outcome is the emergence of a rich variety of participation styles and philosophical differences within and across activities. The purpose of this paper is twofold: (a) to point out some limitations of existing research on action and adventure sports; (b) based on key ideas from emerging research and an ecological dynamics approach, to propose a holistic multidisciplinary model for defining and understanding action and adventure sports that may better guide future research and practical implications.
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- Title
- Understanding Action and Adventure Sports Participation—An Ecological Dynamics Perspective
- Creators
- Tuomas Immonen (Author) - University of JyväskyläEric Brymer (Author) - Leeds Beckett UniversityDominic Orth (Author) - Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamKeith Davids (Author) - Sheffield Hallam UniversityFrancesco Feletti (Author) - Politecnico di MilanoJarmo Liukkonen (Author) - University of JyväskyläTimo Jaakkola (Author) - University of Jyväskylä
- Publication Details
- Sports Medicine - Open, Vol.3(1), 18
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Identifiers
- 991012951091802368
- Copyright
- © The Author(s). 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Health; Human Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article