ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to unpack the notion that there exists any form of "evidence that matters" by arguing for a consolidated return to the "body that matters". Whilst the presence of the body has reinvigorated the field of sport sociology and physical cultural studies theoretically and conceptually, the chapter makes the argument for a centring of the tacit, sensuous body, its fleshy sinews, its movement and its (in)activity as a locus within more creative methodologies. Through exploring the girls' discernment of particular body knowledges, the analysis that follows is reflective of the multiple ways the girls engaged with the game, their multiple movements and relations of self. The aim of the research is to examine rigorously aspects of physical culture, activity and health that implicate (women's) bodies and to do this in a way that centralizes research strategies that adopt the moving body as an embedded aspect of everyday experience.
