Abstract:
The sport habit advocated by modern sports are confined by the conditioned reflex movement of behaviorism. From the body philosophy, through Merleau·Ponty's body phenomenology, we know that habit is not a simple mechanical stimulus-response action, instead, habit is a body expansion of space and perception, as well as a process of knowing the world, governed by the body schema. Although Merleau·Ponty's conception of body self-sufficient made athletes achieve the unity between the behaviors and playing area, he neglected the reflection on the wrong habits. The pragmatist Richard·Shusterman criticized Merleau·Ponty's view of non-reflection habits. By combining body phenomenology with pragmatism, Shusterman advocated reflective body consciousness to examine body habits, which could help the athletes identify and correct the wrong body behaviors in training and competitions.