Publication
Leiden, South Holland : Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Universiteit Leiden, 2014.
Summary
Three different sport coaches deal with issues that revolve around ability, disability and the power between mental and physcial training during their daily coaching routines. Alexander is our 'prototype' coach, a physically strong man coming from the former Soviet Union, who coaches gymnasts. Then Jules, who has been in a wheelchair almost his entire life, coaching a wheelchair basketball team. Finally, there is Maurice, only recently in a wheelchair himself, who is coaching athletes without disabilities on a mental level. Three different coaches, three different stories, who appear to have more in common than what meets the eye.