Being Extreme: Thrills and Dangers in the World of High-Risk Sports By Bill Gutman

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Bill Gutman is the author of than two hundred books for both children and adults in a writing career that has spanned some five decades His first book was an adult level biography of former basketball star Pistol Pete Maravich and since then he has written childrens and young adult biographies and profiles of many prominent sports stars such as Michael Jordan Tiger Woods Shaquille ONeal Ken Griffey Jr. Book Being extreme ownership Bo Jackson Brett Favre and many others Some of his adult books include a biography of former football coach Bill Parcells Parcells A Biograpy When the Cheering Stops interviews with some 25 former baseball players from the 1940s through the 1960s on life after baseball Won For All The Inside Story of the New England Patr Bill Gutman is the author of than two hundred books for both children and adults in a writing career that has spanned some five decades His first book was an adult level biography of former basketball star Pistol Pete Maravich and since then he has written children s and young adult biographies and profiles of many prominent sports stars such as Michael Jordan Tiger Woods Shaquille O Neal Ken Griffey Jr. Book Being extreme violence Bo Jackson Brett Favre and many others Some of his adult books include a biography of former football coach Bill Parcells Parcells A Biograpy When the Cheering Stops interviews with some 25 former baseball players from the 1940s through the 1960s on life after baseball Won For All The Inside Story of the New England Patriots Improbable Run to the Super Bowl written with former linebacker and then Patriots assistant coach Pepper Johnson Twice Around the Bases written with former big league manager Kevin Kennedy The Giants Win the Pennant The Giants Win the Pennant which was the story of the 1951 pennant race between the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers written with home run hero Bobby Thomson Miracle Year Amazing Mets Super Jets the story of both New York teams winning championship in 1969 Being Extreme interviews with 22 of the most daring high risk athletes in the world of mountain climbing BASE jumping ski diving big wave surfing rock climbing extreme skiing and snowboarding Of recent vintage is What if the Babe Had Kept His Red Sox And Other Fascinating Alternate Histories from the World of Sports a book of What Ifs His most recent sports book is a young adult biography of Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge called All Rise The Aaron Judge Story. Being Extreme kindle store Bill s current passion is The Mike Fargo Mysteries a series of novels and novellas about a tough detective working in the New York City of the 1920 The novel Murder on Murderer s Row is available as both an ebook and in paperback on an ebook on other venues The novellas Death of a Flapper Murder on Broadway Seven Days to Murder and The Grab A Cab Murder are currently available as ebooks A sixth book Roaring Twenties Cop Mike Fargo s Own Story is told in Fargo s words and serves to bring the lead character of the series to life as he talks about his childhood on Staten Island the reason he became a cop the New York City of the 1920s and some of his cases The book serves as an introduction to the series and is available for free on the Barnes and Noble iBooks Kobo and Smashwords websites And hopefully there is much to come site_link In the tradition of Into Thin Air a breathtaking look at the athletes such as X Games Gold Medalist Mike Metzger and radical skier Kristen Ulmer who live to defy death In the past ten years the world of extreme sports has exploded onto the scene pushing the edge of safety and sanity farther than we ever thought possible But what is it that motivates people to participate in sports where the most common injury is death In this fascinating in depth riskumentary authors Bill Gutman and Shawn Frederick take readers inside the fast growing world of extreme sports the athletes the challenges the fear the rush the almost spiritual connection to nature the camaraderie and the often awesome athleticism that make living on the edge so compelling From mountain climbing freestyle motocross and sky diving to big wave surfing BASE jumping extreme skiing snowboarding waterfall jumping and Being Extreme explores the motivations and societal impulses behind these lifestyles and the Big T personality types who live them through interviews with top full time athletes recreational hobbyists who live on the edge and psychiatrists who want to know why For some it s about challenging themselves to find freedom from fear for others it s about being the biggest bad ass out there For all of them it s the inescapable pull of the next risky rush a sense of satisfaction they find nowhere else Complete with than forty photographs of treacherous terrain and heart pounding dangers Being Extreme is a thrilling and shocking look at the fear greed spirituality stupidity and athleticism that fuel this cultural phenomenon Not since James Fixx s Running has a bookso accurately captured America s fascination with the sports world Being Extreme Thrills and Dangers in the World of High Risk SportsBeing ExtremeBill Gutman279 pagesInformationalSky diving snow boarding skiing or surfing Those are all extreme This book tells you about things that are extreme It also talks about people that do extreme things I liked this book because it was interesting learning about things that are extreme I wish that I could do some of things that the guys in this book do Bill Gutman