There are therapies that are based around extreme sports even for children. In the article “Camp for Kids With Autism…” it describes how they use extreme sports on kids to face their challenges in life. They talk about how much kids have fun, learn, and come back each year to the camp. The kids also feel as if it’s helping them in their struggle with autism. The counselors for the camp feel that if they face all these dangerous sports they can have the courage to take life head on.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe once said,”Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.” This quote means to take life head on and make choices based on what you want in your life because it can always be an experienced worth living for. Geoffrey Robson did just what the quote said, by doing wingsuit flying and being great at it while living a life with a great education. He lived his life the way he wanted to live and he didn’t let anyone tell him otherwise. Making choices that matter to you are more important than anyone telling you you shouldn’t do something. The quote does say that any choice you make can have a great or bad consequence, but no matter what ir can change the way you view …show more content…
Others think that extreme sports are terrible, dangerous, and that they should be banned. In the article “A Solemn Warning to Wingsuit Flyers” Jones, the author, talks about about statistic list of casualties from extreme sports. The list has all the fatalities over the past five years per 1,000 participants in almost all of the extreme sports. Jones exclaims that these sports especially wingsuit flying have all these deaths and casualties, which should stop people from doing them. According to Jones,¨It is an inherently dangerous sport, but a sport participated in by people with huge skydiving experience and a deep love of adventure of setting themselves new challenges and taking on the ultimate challenge..¨ I can also see why people dislike these sports because they think with all these risks and deaths involved with them they shouldn't be worth doing. I do agree that they have all these dangerous risks and considerable amount of deaths, but just because it's dangerous doesn't mean they'll everyone every time and its can sometimes be an interesting