Books in X-treme Sports series

Climbing is one of the fastest growing extreme sports. From the climbing wall in your local gym to the forbidding slopes of Mount Everest, it offers exciting challenges to adventurers of every age and skill level. Accomplished climber and competitor Pete Takeda shows kids exactly how the sport is done, presenting an enticing, close-up look at bouldering, sport climbing, wall climbing, trad climbing, ice climbing, alpine climbing, and more.

In 64 packed pages, kids will learn an enormous amount about roller skating. The book focuses primarily on in-line skating but includes a bit on quad, which is making something of a comeback. Chapter 1 covers the fundamentals of the sport. Chapter 2 introduces kids to aggressive skating, the in-line sport at the X Games Chapter 3 covers roller hockey, with its specialized equipment, terminology, techniques, and tactics. Chapter 4 is about speed skating. In-line racers use a skate with five wheels instead of four and lightweight boots. Chapter 5 includes an array of other skating opportunities, from artistic (sort of like figure skating) to night skating (there are night skating clubs who take over the streets regularly in some cities), to slalom (where you skate around cones). Chapter 6 tells you how to stay safe while skating, how to maintain your equipment, and how to stay fit for the sport.