Fighting As Real As It Gets: A Micro-Sociological Encounter [Hardcover]

Michael Staacks multi-year ethnography is the first and only comprehensive social-scientific analysis of the combat sport Mixed Martial Arts. Based on systematic training observations, the author meticulously analyses how Mixed Martial Arts practitioners conjointly create and immerse themselves into their own world of ultimate bodily combat. Introduction: MMA as Fighting As Real As It Gets.- Literature on MMA.- Methodical approach, execution of study, structure of the book.- Producing combative causality in technique demonstrations: The setting.- Producing combative causality in technique demonstrations: (Inter-)Actions.- Dyadic emulations of the demonstrated techniques.- Sparring: Setting it up and getting into it.- Sparring: Combative passion and combative actions.- Conclusion.- Prospect: Future lines of research.Michael Staack is a Research Associate at the Institute for Sports Sciences, Department Social Science of Sports at the Goethe-University Frankfurt a.M.Michael Staacks ethnography is the first and only comprehensive social-scientific analysis of the combat sport mixed martial arts. Based on systematic training observations, the author meticulously analyses how mixed martial arts practitioners conjointly create and immerse themselves in their own world of ultimate hand-to-hand combat.