Abstract Fun is deeply ingrained in the ways we talk about and understand sport: Having fun is what makes sport positive and healthy. Drawing on a Foucauldian perspective, we problematize how fun, a psychological construct, informs coaches’ practices. Interviews with 10 varsity coaches from a Canadian university indicated that the coaches used fun to overcome the ‘grind’ of physical skill training. In addition, fun was used to develop and naturalize a need for athletes’ positive psychological traits and skills. In their training contexts, thus, the coaches clearly employed fun to reinforce their use of a number of dominant disciplinary training practices. As a result, instead of operating as a positive force for athlete engagement, the incorporation of fun further legitimized and perpetuated coaches’ ‘normal’ training practices.

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“好运动员有乐趣”：大学教练对乐趣的运用的读读

摘要在我们谈论和理解运动的方式中，乐趣深深地根深蒂固：获得乐趣是使运动积极健康的基础。借鉴福柯主义的观点，我们质疑一种乐趣，一种心理建构，如何指导教练的实践。来自加拿大一所大学的10名大学教练的访谈表明，这些教练利用乐趣来克服身体技能训练的“磨练”。另外，乐趣被用来发展和自然化对运动员积极的心理特征和技能的需求。因此，在他们的培训环境中，教练显然利用乐趣来加强他们对许多主要学科训练方法的使用。结果，乐趣的结合并没有成为运动员参与的积极力量，而是进一步使教练的“正常”训练做法合法化并永存。