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Check out our latest feature from ITV’s The Cycle Show with Ricky Crompton teaching presenter Anna Glowinski how to backflip a bike.
Children as young as two are hopping on BMX bikes, climbing rock walls and attempting skateboard manoeuvres in a quest for more adrenalin-pumping pastimes than kicking the footy or going for a swim.
Once the domain of pre-teens and adolescents, extreme sports report an influx of younger participants as the sports become safer and more widely available.
”Extreme sport is seen by kids as cool and by parents as safe,” Monash University sports lecturer Tom Heenan said. ”It’s lost its fear factor.” … More