The Expressiveness of the Body, Artifacts and Tacit Knowledge: A study of Tug of War

• Main Authors: Chieh-Hsin Hsu, 徐傑歆
• Other Authors: Wen-Hua Kuo
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/z8vzt3

碩士 === 國立陽明大學 === 科技與社會研究所 === 103 === This study uses the expressiveness of the body, artifacts and tacit knowledge as guiding concepts to know how coaches and athletes engage in the sport of tug of war via bodily training. This study has three major findings. First, tug of war is not a simple sport. Like other more complicated sports, bodily techniques are essential for tug of war and their subtlety is difficult to explore. In particular, the integration of power and acting as a team are the key to it. Second, the transfer of techniques in mastering tug of war is not a one-way process from the coach to the athlete. Instead, it is a long-time bodily engagement achieved by the two. By interacting with training artifacts, athletes' bodies are transformed and become fit for the game. Finally, tug of war as a game synthesizes the bodily performance of the coach and the athletes. Only by employing a holistic approach can one appreciate the collectivity of the body, the artifacts used for building up it, and tacit knowledge in manipulating power a in each game.