The melting between the rational and bodily sensitivities: Phenomenological exploration of tennis players' classification.

The classifications of tennis players have been an ongoing and interesting topic. To understand the types of players and then develop appropriate sports measurements for them has long been a research topic for sports lovers. Inspired by the phenomenological method of Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), this study attempts to analyze the essence of match players and practice players by taking the phenomenological path forged by scholars, such as Prof. I-Min Liu and Prof. Wei-Lun Lee, as the research method. Through a phenomenological description, the study shows different types of tennis players and reveals the essence of the two types of players by phenomenological suspension (epoché) and reduction. The participants in this research are domestic top-notch tennis players and coaches from New Taipei City, National Taiwan Normal University, and Chinese Taipei Tennis Association. The study attempts to take the context formed by the player's holistic experiences and horizon melting in their lives as the analysis and the materials, and then restores the subject to clear its original style of experience. The researchers found that the practice player was deeply disturbed by the three dimensions of technique, thinking, and system, and has the characteristics of mixture and uncertainty. In contrast, the match player has the basic characteristics of order, spontaneity, and subject, especially continuity and integrity. Finally, through the second reduction, the paper discovers, by the suspension of player classifications in the sports world, that players construct their own being in the sports world through the interactions between themselves and the outside world. They take winning or losing as the judgment and logic systems in the sports world. Meanwhile, through the conflict between the body and the inner world, the particular sense of space and time and body sense are formed. Also, a variety of sports experiences are formed in the dependence of vision and touch. Finally, athletes activate their feelings from the flow between themselves and their bodies, make their meanings in the back and forth between the inner and outer worlds, and form their richer and deeper sports worlds through their continuous interactions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]