ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a phenomenological understanding of the extreme sport experience. It articulates the principles and application of the phenomenological method. The chapter demonstrates the phenomenological approach through its application to the extreme sport experience. It suggests that an appropriate structure for scaffolding the phenomenological understanding of lived experiences comprises: lived space, lived time, lived other and lived body based on the philosophical and methodological aspects of phenomenology. Lived space may be experienced as more expansive than measured space or may be more confining than measured space. The notion of lived time (temporality) is located phenomenologically in past, present and future. However, in extreme sports the relationship to time changes. The notion of 'the other' has a complex history within phenomenological thought. The lived body of extreme sportspeople is primordially expressive and meaning-giving, lives in relation to the objects of consciousness.
