Log Rolling: A New Aquatic Trend or Sport? From the 20th century, an activity originally started as a lumberjack tradition of rotating a log in the water while trying to trip up your opponent until they fall off is now emerging in local pools all across the country. All the way from children to adults, this new aquatic event is starting to spark peoples’ attention. In this exposition I am going to describe whether or not log rolling is categorized into each of the four different segments that makeup a sport. From notes taken in class these include rigorous physical activity, a competitive event, is officially governed with institutionalized rules, and includes bother internal or external rewards. Also being discussed is the positive and negatives
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Some internal rewards include pride, mastering a skill, and enjoyment. With external rewards consisting of recognition, endorsements, and trophies. A prime example of some external rewards that have arose from this event revolves around the legendary Lewiston sisters, who won 11 world championships starting in 1958. When a video producer was asked to describe these women’s success he said, “They had fame, they were on game shows, and they were in traveling sport shows. Sure, it was pre-ESPN, pre-big money, but these women certainly achieved levels of fame” (Schmidt, 2014). Though the external rewards are very important in terms of achieving success in the sport, the internal rewards are also an indispensable part. When viewing various peer-reviewed articles on roleos, a term attributed to log rolling being a lumberjack rodeo, some words used to describe these internal rewards are exciting, fun-filled, happily exhausting, and intense. At last the final benchmark passed all requirements through the reward system and should be titled a sport in this section …show more content…
A few of the most important reasons why log rolling would benefit from being a sport is the increased marketing and advertisement that would result in a larger recognition of this activity, increasing the fan-base and financial support. If there is an increase fan-base at log rolling events that have started to band-wagon this activity, the detrimental effect is a loss of cultural traditions. This could occur if these traditions were potentially pushed aside and replaced with more media influenced agendas, only perpetuated with increasing profits and consumer
Some internal rewards include pride, mastering a skill, and enjoyment. With external rewards consisting of recognition, endorsements, and trophies. A prime example of some external rewards that have arose from this event revolves around the legendary Lewiston sisters, who won 11 world championships starting in 1958. When a video producer was asked to describe these women’s success he said, “They had fame, they were on game shows, and they were in traveling sport shows. Sure, it was pre-ESPN, pre-big money, but these women certainly achieved levels of fame” (Schmidt, 2014). Though the external rewards are very important in terms of achieving success in the sport, the internal rewards are also an indispensable part. When viewing various peer-reviewed articles on roleos, a term attributed to log rolling being a lumberjack rodeo, some words used to describe these internal rewards are exciting, fun-filled, happily exhausting, and intense. At last the final benchmark passed all requirements through the reward system and should be titled a sport in this section …show more content…
A few of the most important reasons why log rolling would benefit from being a sport is the increased marketing and advertisement that would result in a larger recognition of this activity, increasing the fan-base and financial support. If there is an increase fan-base at log rolling events that have started to band-wagon this activity, the detrimental effect is a loss of cultural traditions. This could occur if these traditions were potentially pushed aside and replaced with more media influenced agendas, only perpetuated with increasing profits and consumer