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Gale Webb Extreme Sports And Air Shows
Gale Webb Extreme Sports and Air Shows is an extreme sports show hosted by Gale Webb at events in southern California. Commonly referred to as "Gale's Extreme Air Show" or "Gale's Extreme Sports Show", the show can be seen at some fairs and carnivals, and is also performed at schools. Overview Webb has been hosting her shows for over 30 years. Tony Hawk performed in her first show, and over the years it has gained popularity in California. It is a part of events like the Orange County Youth Expo and Boy Scouts of America's Scout-O-Rama. The show has several sponsors including Burnside Clothing, Hansen Natural, Sport Chalet, Freshpark, Kawasaki and Vans. The show Gale Webb Extreme Sports and Air Shows use two truck-mounted portable ten-foot quarter pipes, occasionally with a steel funbox in the middle. Performers usually include professional BMX bikers, rollerbladers, skateboarders and scooter riders. Before the show starts, the performers usually perform some of their most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extreme Sports
Action sports, adventure sports or extreme sports are activities perceived as involving a high degree of risk. These activities often involve speed, height, a high level of physical exertion and highly specialized gear. Extreme tourism overlaps with extreme sport. The two share the same main attraction, " adrenaline rush" caused by an element of risk, and differ mostly in the degree of engagement and professionalism. Definition The definition of extreme sports is not exact and the origin of the terms is unclear, but it gained popularity in the 1990s when it was picked up by marketing companies to promote the X Games and when the Extreme Sports Channel and Extreme International launched. More recently, the commonly used definition from research is "a competitive (comparison or self-evaluative) activity within which the participant is subjected to natural or unusual physical and mental challenges such as speed, height, depth or natural forces and where fast and accurate cogniti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Funbox
A funbox is a standard element of a skatepark. It generally consists of a box shape with a flat top and a ramp on two or more sides. A funbox may also include other elements that allow for more complicated skateboarding tricks.''Thrasher'' magazine/ref> The construction must resist dynamic structural load A structural load or structural action is a force, deformation, or acceleration applied to structural elements. A load causes stress, deformation, and displacement in a structure. Structural analysis, a discipline in engineering, analyzes the ef ... resulting from aerial tricks or jumps onto the funbox. References {{Skateboarding Skateboarding Skateboarding equipment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dakota Schuetz
Dakota Schuetz, (born 19 March 1996) also known as Kota, is an American professional freestyle scooter rider. He is the three time world champion in the ISA Scooter Competition (2012, 2013, 2014). In addition to winning several Competition, contests, he is one of just two people to have completed all 40 tricks in Tricknology, a website with a list of challenging tricks. Only one trick took him more than one try. He is also the second person to land a documented 1080 on a scooter. The first being Tyler Bonner in 2010 In 2016 Dakota Schuetz held the most wins for freestyle scooter ISA World Championship and was published in the Guinness World Records, Guinness Book of World Records. In addition to being world champion he also won the FISE World Series Chengdu in 2018. References Living people 1996 births Sportspeople from California Guinness World Records {{US-sport-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Fiola
Edward Lynn "Eddie" Fiola (born Sept 28,1964) is an American former professional freestyle BMX rider, and a film stuntman. In 1982 Bob Morales started up the ASPA (Amateur Skatepark Association which would later become the AFA or American Freestyle Association) and began the legendary king of the skateparks competitions in the USA. Eddie Fiola would go on to win it a total of 5 times along with 4 freestyle Nora (Number One Rider Award) cups including the first one ever to be awarded in 1985 and with having the idea for the potts modification or hollow stem bolt. This led to him becoming one of the most famous and highly paid freestyle BMX riders of his time reputedly earning around $100,000 dollars in a year and appearing on the cover of countless magazines. Later he became a stuntman in films such as ''The Dukes of Hazzard'', ''The Italian Job'' and ''Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull''. Career in BMX In 1982 Haro Bikes rider Bob Morales helped with a d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
