`The fragile science of bruising` - Observations on intercorporeal connections between coaches and boxers before and during a fight
(Die fragile Wissenschaft des Blutergusses" - Beobachtungen zu den wechselseitigen Beziehungen zwischen Trainern und Boxern vor und während eines Kampfes)
Though boxing is usually perceived as an individual sport, the merging of boxer and coach into a joint corporeality is essential for prevailing the fight. Using several video recordings (respective transcripts and drawings of video stills) taken during professional boxer`s training sessions, fight preparation, and actual fighting, I show how this connection is established over long-term training, renewed immediately before a fight, maintained during fighting, and (at times) lost. Deploying an ethnomethodological approach, I illustrate the coaches` methods of engaging in an intercorporeal relation with their boxers. When connected properly, they fight together with the boxers` performance enhanced by the coaches` perception and skilful experience. However, coaches and boxers permanently oscillate between an intercorporeal connection and a laboriously established substitution of such. Thus, their endeavour remains delicate and the connection`s fragility is exposed, especially during fighting itself when it is - literally - hammered on by the opponent.
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Schlagworte: | Boxen Coaching Trainer Video Analyse Wettkampf Training Einstellung |
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Notationen: | Kampfsportarten |
Tagging: | Trainer-Sportler-Beziehung |
DOI: | 10.1080/21640629.2023.2254130 |
Veröffentlicht in: | Sports Coaching Review |
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2023
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Jahrgang: | 13 |
Heft: | 1 |
Seiten: | 13-36 |
Dokumentenarten: | Artikel |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Level: | hoch |