Essays on Adventure Sports

Mid-July 2018 when this chapter was way past its many deadlines, an exchange around Indian sport on social media became, to use mobile app language, a notification for our times. “Our” here is Indian sport – that baffling, exhilarating, frustrating, impossibly optimistic entity – and...

Avoid Drinking Before Kayaking Kayaking demands your total body efforts for its proper functioning. In normal conditions, if you are not moving your body symmetrically for paddling. You would be easily exhausted. For instance, when you are taking your forward strokethen don’t just move your...

Trekking around Bangalore is on the rise among the millennials and travel enthusiasts. Since this city is known for its stressful and hectic urban lifestyle, individuals living there are looking forward to more places that are far away from the hustle and bustle of city-life....

Ownership of franchises in sports leagues in India has proven to be quite popular, at least optically, with the private sector. Most leagues have a standard format of a central league structure owned by promoters, who then seek corporate owners and partner them with celebrities...

Mia Doi Todd said, walking the tightrope, now no consequences. Walking the tightrope, numb and defenseless. According to Dictionary. com, tightroping is defined as, “a rope or wire stretched taut for acrobats to perform on. Courtney Dean describes tightroping as an “extremely challenging sport taking...

Something fundamental is changing when it comes to sports in India. After decades of lamenting about the abysmal performance of the country on any international level, we can spot the signs of change, as sport is slowly shaking off its torpid lethargy and awakening to...

“Can”. Three-letter word. Has no great personality. Slang for toilet. Painted by Andy Warhol. Worth five points in Scrabble. Then you look again. “Can” has muscle. It means to have the ability, the skill, the belief. It’s knowing ‘how to’. It’s having the ‘power to’....

Since I could remember, sports have been a part of my life. The first time I watched a football game at my house I saw how excited my dad and my uncles were. They taught me the rules and how the games were played. As...

Introduction Tourism is an action of worldwide imperativeness and importance as it is a major force in the economy (Cooper et al. 2008). Tourism has undeniably developed as one of the most significant economic and social phenomena of the last century (Mihelj 2010). Tourism is...

The Indian sports production industry is poised to explode, given that equipment is getting cheaper and easier to use, and there are far more leagues to cover. But, there are two basic issues which will need to be tackled if that growth curve has to...

Exercise is a method often implemented by health professionals within western civilisation, who aim to combat the increasing number of people suffering from conditions such as heart disease and obesity. I have developed an awareness of the role exercise plays in maintaining the health of...

The field of Computer Science involves a variety of specialized skills which enables students of the study to find jobs as developers of computer software, as programmers of algorithms and applications to be used internally and externally by their company, and as designers of computer...

The league culture in India has been evolving this past decade. As with most things to do with leagues, the initiative will have to be taken by the IPL and, to a lesser extent, the PKL and ISL for it to percolate down to the...

The ripple effect of the IPL’s success cascaded into virtually every other sport, led by promoters teaming up with national federations. Of these, two have been relatively successful despite it being early days in the life cycles of leagues in India. The Indian Super League...