"The quality of tension" - A videographic study on visual communication of embodied knowledge in trampoline jumping

Singh A. "Die Qualität der Spannung". Soziale Welt. Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung und Praxis. 2013;64(1-2):97-+.Using video-recordings of coach-athlete interactions, this paper discusses the importance of the body producing social situations, in which physical and visual activities are transformed into knowledge. From a sociology of knowledge perspective possible connections between Visual Sociology and Sociology of the Body are explored, providing theoretical and empirical perspectives, for analyzing body-centered interactions in sports. The example of a training situation in the sport of trampoline will show how actors orient to each other in the interactional process, produce new forms of knowledge and update socially shared stocks of knowledge by using visual and tactile resources. The result of the sequential video-based analysis leads to the intersubjective production of a "body tension" as a special knowledge, which is relevant for the performance of trampolining