feel for the game

is a feeling made manifest in executive and imaginative moves.

certain tacit knowledge, based on a 'feel for the game', a feeling manifest in executive and imaginative moves. [']

is a tactical intelligence which is not acquired through formal model making which render principles explicit, but is mastered in the practical state and which are acquired practically through mimeticism.

some educationalist (such as Rene Deleplace) who have endeavoured to rationalize the teaching of sporting or artistic activities by trying to favour conscious awareness of the mechanisms really at work in these practices, shows that, if it fails to be based on a formal model making explicit the principles which practical sense (or more precisely, the 'feel for the game' or tactical intelligence) masters in the practical state and which are acquired practically through mimeticism, the teaching of sport has to fall back on rules and even formulae, and focus its attention on typical phases ('moves').

is the near-perfect anticipation of the future inscribed in all the concrete configurations on the pitch or board.

A particular clear example of practical sense as a proleptic adjustment to the demands of a field is what is called, in the language of sport, a 'feel for the game'. This phrase (like 'investment sense', the art of 'anticipating' events, etc.) gives a fairly accurate idea of the almost miraculous encounter between the habitus and a field, between incorporated history and an objectified history, which makes possible the near-perfect anticipation of the future inscribed in all the concrete configurations on the pitch or board. (bourdieu 'logic of practice 66)

is the sense of the imminent future of the game, the sense of the direction (sens) of the history of the game that gives the game its sense.

The 'feel' (sens) for the game is the sense of the imminent future of the game, the sense of the direction (sens) of the history of the game that gives the game its sense. (bourdieu 'logic of practice 82)

feel for the game, n.Definitions

feel for the game