In the world of tomorrow, the world we call home today, sports have become a science. Athletes are treated like expensive machines; constantly tested, trained and finely tuned with diets, and work-out regiments. What about the fine tuned machines of motorized sports? In this instant age, where information travels at a streaming swiftness, motorized sports have evolved from a specific man’s sport to a popular platform recognized all over the world.
Powersports might appear as ambiguous to many not familiar with the term. At a glance, Powersports is simply a category to define a sub-genre of motorsports that focus on the use of an engine in a husk of heavy metal machine. The sub-genre is littered with recreational vehicles, supped up and speed fed in their designs to make them more akin to overtake their competition. All-terrain vehicles (ATVs), snowmobile, personal water crafts (PWCs) and off-road motorcycles (motocross) are the defining machines in this subcategory of motorsports. Each have their own professional circuits and standings, each have their own physics and scientific mechanics to understand. This is true with every sport, though, so what makes these sports powerful?
The easy answer is their engines, but this writer believes the true power lies with their intentions. Most of these sports revolve around an understanding and ultimately a disregard for the rider’s safety. There are no seat-belts in an ATV race. The same can be said about the rest of the list. Each individual powersport has their rules and regulations, but when it comes down to it, the risk of being bucked off your snowmobile or ATV is much higher than falling out of a race car. That is not to say these are the most dangerous of motorized sports, that we leave to preference, but respect should be given to the dangers entangled in the powersport game.
The fame of each of these motorsports has grown substantially in the last few decades. With the advances in both engine mechanics and international technology, it is no wonder why these sports have found a fan-base. Their brisk, thrilling competitions in the adolescence of their inception. Remember hockey without helmets? There is an unknown entity involved with these sports that hasn’t been regulated to death like most mainstream athletics of today. The engines have been modified, the tires tread to shred dirt and rocks, and a disregard for the way sports standards used to be is in place. Most of the powersports have races and time trials, but also offer trick and freestyle events as an alternative to the tired formula of who can outrun who.
There is a finesse instilled in the heart of these sports, making the pros more pure and elite. Anyone can swing a bat or throw a ball (granted doing it on a professional level is infinitely harder), but hitting a ramp at 88 mph and doing a double back-flip with a supercross bike is something that can’t be performed by everyone. This is the true power in powersports. As the recognition of these sports grows, their appeal will only continue to develop alongside. Truly, powersports are a statement of the advent of our future.
Tyler Baker; OSM Writer
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