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The two driving questions are: What may be fruitful ways to modify existing research mores and theoreticalassumptions in cognitive studies? How do we integrate the cognitive sciences with the normative? These resultrespectively in an overture to expand the cognitive canon, and uniquely derive the normative weight to excel from workin the mind sciences and skillful coping connected to standards inherent to and resulting from the active pursuits centralto this examination: sports, performing and martial arts, and crafts. Animate bodies best show the connection betweenthe normative and the cognitive, and how these correlate with bodies, their kinetic capabilities, and the context of acommunity. This leads to a reconsideration of how cognitive studies—to include neuroscience, cognitive science, andphilosophy—go about their business. The “cognitive canon” is thus extended and modified on a number of frontsregarding methodology, subject matter, and focus. Specifically, I suggest the need to go beyond conventional researchfoci embraced by both mainstream cognitivist and alternative embodied cognition approaches: the argument is to gobeyond vision, normality and the pathological to explicitly incorporate the kinetic-tactile and the exceptional under aframework that re-conceptualizes matters across the board.