Extreme sports
It's amazing, but by the end of the twentieth century that was packed with various technical frills, modern sports turned to more simplicity than ever. A usual wooden board, a primitive thing in many ways, has become the one thing defining the form and the content of all new sports. If you add a sail to it and surf on the water on it – you'll get windsurfing. If you have a parachute behind your back and jump out of a helicopter having a board on your feet that you can do sliding and stunning tricks with – you'll get sky-surfing. If you attach wheels to it, and roll on it on the streets – you'll get such popular street culture as skateboarding which is now split into many different sub-disciplines. And the idea of using boards in as many different applications as possible does not stand still even today - recently a new sport emerged called wakeboarding - the same as water skis but instead of skis you have a board under your feet. And, of course, this modern trend of using boards everywhere was also applied for winter sports. The snowboard, one of the most thrilling and amazing inventions of modern sports, really went big with the young generation. Roughly speaking, you can add the word "board" to almost every word and you'll get a new sport - that's how it looks like today. The sports that use boards are numerous: surfing, windsurfing, sky surfing, kiting, wakeboarding, snowboarding, skateboarding and many others. The word "extreme" used to describe these and many other sports suppose that they have a high degree of danger, although there are other more classic sports that can be a lot more dangerous.