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Experience and risk sensation in skitouring
Hlava, Daniel ; Kalkusová, Lucie (advisor) ; Baláš, Jiří (referee)
Title: Experience and risk sensation in ski touring Objectives: Main goal of this thesis is the analysis of experience and risk sensation of people practicing ski touring. To discover how athletes perceive these conditions and fears during the given activity, how does it influence their behavior and what are they doing to minimize the risks. Methods: All the data presented in the empirical part of this thesis were collected through semi-structured interview and a questionnaire with closed questions. There were 44 participants in the study between the age of 20 and 51. The data obtained through an online questionnaire were evaluated using Microsoft Office Excel 2010. The outcome values were entered into a clear table and further used for a more detailed analysis. The interviews were recorded using a tape recorder. The audio recordings were transcribed into a text version. After that the document was evaluated and rephrased into a more comprehensible form and divided into categories using coding method, which helped simplify the text manipulation. Results: The results of our work show that ski touring is a very emotional activity. Ski tourists experience many emotional, aesthetic and socially cultural experiences. Furthermore, the respondents also experience the state of optimum flow, which becomes...
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Motivation for risk sports
Hlava, Daniel ; Vomáčko, Ladislav (advisor) ; Kalkusová, Lucie (referee)
Title: Motivation for risk sports Objectives: The aim of our thesis is to find out primary and secondary motives of athletes for the operation of high-risk sports and coming back to it. We also want to find out what is the starter for doing risk sports. Other questions are why athletes keep doing it and how perceive the potential risk. Methods: In our study, we chose qualitative investigation method and semistructured interview with eight respondents. For the interview, we drew up a list of questions that need to discuss during the interview. Interviews are done individually with each respondent and the responses were recorded using audio recording. Then we rewrote records into text and evaluated. Results: We found out that motivation for risk sports more to do with intrinsic motivation and motives are very diverse. The most prominent motives are the experiences, self-realization, feelings of freedom and escape from normal life. People repeated participation in hazardous sports reasons indescribable feeling that he experienced and want to repeat it. They are addicted to this feeling and are attracted to them. Keywords: Motivation, windsurfing, freeride skiing, paragliding, downhill
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