ABSTRACT

This article explores the Cuban sensorium as revealed through children’s baseball practice. The development of physical skills in any sport are painstakingly learned through repetitive practice. The enskillment of such movements are tasted by coaches, athletes and others through a combination of sensory information. In Cuba, the sensing of movement is understood and evaluated through the flavor of movement. How these children develop the requisite “techniques of the body” are only part of the enskillment process; coaches emphasize and evaluate the flavor of children’s movements rather than correctness of their techniques as indicators of enskillment. Thus, the article focuses on the sensorial frame by which learning to move is encouraged, critiqued, and evaluated. Drawing attention to these sensorial frames thereby highlights cultural specificity for sensing oneself and one’s world and the nature of the development of such sensoria.

摘要

本文探讨了通过儿童棒球练习揭示的古巴感官。任何一项运动的身体技能的发展都是通过反复练习而煞费苦心地学习的。教练员、运动员和其他人通过感官信息的组合来体验这些动作的技巧。在古巴，运动的感觉是通过运动的味道来理解和评估的。这些孩子如何发展必要的“身体技巧”只是启蒙过程的一部分；教练强调和评估儿童动作的风味，而不是将他们技术的正确性作为技能提高的指标。因此，本文着重于鼓励、批评和评估学习移动的感官框架。