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Describes the ten most popular extreme sports for thrill seekers, including street luge, bull riding, wave surfing, and BASE jumping.

Provides brief profiles of top athletes in the extreme sports of stakeboarding, BMX riding, motocross, and snowboarding.

This book is a collection of five stories with each story describing a contest or a place where extreme sports enthusiasts test their skills to the limit.

Students and extreme sport enthusiasts will not only learn about the sports themselves, but also about the techniques, innovations, engineering, and physics beh