Risk passion and outdoor activities
| Autor: | David Le Breton, Jorge Ricardo Saraví, Mónica Sierra |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese |
| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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| Zdroj: | Educación Física y Ciencia, Vol 11, Iss 0, Pp 13-31 (2009) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1514-0105 2314-2561 |
| Popis: | Many amateur sportsmen in the West, have today started undertaking long and intensive ordeals where their personal capacity to withstand increasing suffering is the prime objective. Running, jogging, triathlon and trekking, etc., are the sorts of ordeal where people without any particular ability are not pitting themselves against others, but are committed to testing their own capacity to withstand increasing pain. Constantly called upon to prove themselves in a society where reference points are both countless and contradictory and where values are in crisis, people are now seeking a one-to-one relationship by radical means, testing their strength of character, their courage and their personal resources. Going right on to the end of a self-imposed ordeal gives a legitimacy to life and provides a symbolic plank that supports them. Performance itself is of secondary significance; it is has a value only to the individual. There is no struggle against a third party, only a method for reinforcing personal will-power and overcoming suffering by going right to the limit of a personally-imposed demand. The physical limit has come to replace the moral limit that present-day society is failing to provide. Overcoming suffering tempers the individual, providing a renewed significance and value to his life |
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