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Moving Bodies in Interaction – Interacting Bodies in Motion: Intercorporeality, interkinesthesia, and enaction in sports
Edited by Christian Meyer and Ulrich v. Wedelstaedt
[Advances in Interaction Studies 8] 2017
► pp. 245–265

Chapter 10
Teaching bodies

Visual and haptic communication in martial arts

The article is concerned with teaching and learning embodied knowledge in a martial arts class. It argues that in pair exercises of motion sequences practitioners do not only enact something together in a shared corporeality. Rather, these exercises are also communicative means. We can therefore speak of haptic communication once physical contact between bodies is made in the expectation that the other participant will understand the contact as a sign and react to it in a certain way. In martial arts classes different forms of contact between bodies are accomplished in order to create embodied experience about the movement order the students wish to learn.

Keywords: embodied knowledge, communication, learning, martial arts, ethnography
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • Learning martial arts as an ethnographer
  • Teaching by doing – visual communication in martial arts classes
  • Embodied learning
  • Haptic communication
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 14 August 2017
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