ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the phenomenology of sports from a sociological perspective. It focuses on whether athletes scream reflexively or subconsciously with increasing frequency, coupled with phenomenological approaches are sociological perspectives on the senses which tackle sport sensations and perception less as a neurological and psychological affair, and more as thoroughly social and cultural phenomena. The senses, in other words, are both producers and interpreters of the world in its social and material dimensions. The sensuality of sporting experiences and practices is a diverse and complex field that forces us to abandon taken-for-granted assumptions and preconceptions about sporting bodies. The adjective 'primal' refers to an essential and fundamental nature which pre-dates emotional and symbolic development. Primal in this sense stands for something fundamentally pre-developmental in its rawness and impulsiveness. Something primal is something instinctual, but in this case also something that cannot take place without the development of habit and the cultivation of intense embodiment through skill training.
