X-sportsRick Stevenson, 16 years old, spends every minute he can on the mountain.His friends and he go snowboarding every weekend.“It’s incredible,” he says,“The winds are so strong; the boards go 50 miles an hour.”His friend Laura Fields agrees, “No one goes skiing anymore.That’s for the old people.”Rick and Laura are part of a new trend in sports called extreme sports or X-sports.It has its own language, words such as “rage” and “energy”.It also has its own clothing, such as skin-tight bicycle suits in rainbow colors.And it’s not for the old or the easily frightened.Its philosophy is to get as close to the edge as possible.
