According
as the leisure time increases, there increases
an interest in the utilization of the leisure
time.
Therefore, these days, the interest is concentrated
on life sports such as the inline skating or badminton,
etc.
Related to this trend, there is MTB, a new extreme
sports. MTB is a sports that runs the natural
bumpy off road by mountain bike.
The events of MTB include the 20 ~ 100 km cross
country that traverses the mountain ridge, the
hill climbing, the down hill(descending the hill),
the dual slalom corresponding to the great turning
of the ski, and the trial contest corresponding
to the jumping of the ski, etc. The Europe and
the U.S., and Japan host various open contests
including the MTB World Cup, and as for Korea,
the national MTB Association and the Korean MTB-BTX
Federation attract various nation-wide and international
contests.
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