La deportificación del Tai Chi Chijuan

Abstract

The object of the present study is to analyze the pertinent features of the taichi chuan to observe the level of deportification reached. For that, it has been investigated both realities coexistent inside the taichi: on the one hand the daily taichi of the weekly meetings and for other one the competition of taichi. In the dissertation there has had in consideration the fieldworks realized in the meetings of the group Bushï You Shoreï of Legazpi (Guipuzcoa) during October of 2005-2007 and the World Cup of taichi chuan celebrated in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Alava) between 12 and 14 of October, 2007. For the analysis, the information obtained by means of the observation participant realized in both contexts has been qualified bearing in mind factors of internal and external logic and attending to four domains of motor action that represent the social reality; the relation with the space, the relations between the participants, the construction of the time and the use of the objects. The investigation helps us to illustrate the level of institutionalization and internationalization of this meditative practice, and to present the process of deportificación to that it is exposed.