‘Your Wave, Bro!’: virtue ethics and surfing

Olivier, Steve

doi:10.1080/17430431003780229

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“…A buoyant community founded on strong social connections was crucial to ensuring a site or intervention would have longevity. In line with previous studies of lifestyle sports, specifically surfing (Beaumont & Brown, 2016;Olive, 2016;Olivier, 2010), mountain bikers develop a sport-space bond and value the opportunity to develop ownership through informal communities of 'locals' (King & Church, 2013). With roles as both users and managers, the respondents in this study recognised the importance of being connected and involved with this this community as part of sports delivery.…”

Section: Delivering Mountain Biking: Users Communities and Spacessupporting

confidence: 70%

Lifestyle sports delivery and sustainability: clubs, communities and user-managers

King

Church

2017

International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

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Lifestyle and informal sports have been recognised by policy makers as offering opportunities to increase participation in physical activity, particularly amongst hard to reach groups. Lifestyle sports are, however, double edged in their potential to achieve these goals. Their playful and non-traditional features may attract new participants less interested in traditional sports but the very liquidity of these activities may mean that the engagement of participants is fragmented and not sustained beyond a particular period in their lives. This paper presents the perspective of mountain biking user-managers; those involved in the delivery, clubs and communities of mountain bikers across the UK. Findings suggest that whilst lifestyle sport communities are dependent on the work of formalised clubs to gain access to the funding and resources they need to sustain their activities, core participants will not always want to have to liaise or become involved formally within a club structure. In addition clubs will not succeed in delivering sustained activities in line with sport policy to increase and maintain participation by relying on individual grants and without the support of an active informal user community. Accounts highlight the 2 importance of engaging informal user communities with a sense of ownership such as locals to ensure new participants are integrated and the community is able to replenish.

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Section: Delivering Mountain Biking: Users Communities and Spacessupporting

confidence: 70%

Lifestyle sports delivery and sustainability: clubs, communities and user-managers

King

Church

2017

International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

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“…The category of local surfer, while often alluded to in research studies and the media, is seldom developed beyond the notion of geographical proximity to a specified surfing location. Moreover, literature focusing on local surfer behavior mostly does so to explore (often insightfully) specific themes such as localism (Olivier, 2010;Usher & Kerstetter, 2014), or the construction of masculinity (Waitt & Warren, 2008;Evers, 2009). Following Andrews and Ritzer (2007) the local surfer, can also be seen as a "glocalized" surfer due to the simultaneously localized and deterritorialized meanings and practices all of which have been interpenetrated by global cultural flows.…”

Section: The Local Surfer As An Ideal Typical Socio-spatial Identity mentioning

confidence: 98%

‘Once a Local Surfer, Always a Local Surfer’: Local Surfing Careers in a Southwest English Village

Beaumont

Brown

2014

Leisure Sciences

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This article reports on findings from an ethnographic study (2008-09) conducted in a village with a significant population of local surfers in Cornwall (Southwest England). Stimulated by Goffman's (1961) interpretation of the concept of career and elaborated by the work of Stebbins (1970) on "subjective career," Stebbins's (1982) framework of "serious leisure" and "serious leisure career" (Stebbins, 2005), we identify moments from local surfer careers lived in this community setting. We suggest that similar to findings from other subcultural studies on sports careers the local surfing career in this context contains shared experiential stages: the nurtured stage, the possible competitive stage, the serious leisure traveller stage, the responsible stage, and the legends stage. We conclude that the shared experiences and pathways of a local surfing career can play a positive cultural role, not just for individuals but also for the construction and maintenance of local community life.

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“…"Localism is one of the defining concepts of modern surfing" (Scott, 2003: web site) and is seen by some as "the dark side of surfing" (Olivier, 2010(Olivier, , p. 1224. Despite localism becoming a frequent topic of commercially popular mediums such as News media, surfing books (Fitzjones et al, 1998;and Wade, 2007), magazines and online forums, it remains a relatively under-explored topic in academic research (notable exceptions include Lanagan, 2003;Bennett, 2004;Booth, 2004;Sweeney, 2005;Waitt, 2008, & Olivier, 2010. Therefore, further academic study of localism is timely in order to explore the phenomenon in greater detail.…”

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‘It’s not something I’m proud of but it’s … just how I feel’: local surfer perspectives of localism

Beaumont¹,

Brown

2014

Leisure Studies

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This article focuses on a defining concept of modern surfing; localism. Using a qualitative ethnographic approach, the data for this study were collected using participant observation, field notes and interviews between 2008 and 2009 with a significant population of local surfers in a village location in Cornwall, South West of England, UK. Developing Bennett's (2004) definition of localism, data suggested a benign form of localism and in conveying this we make a number of associated observations. Our analysis considers how a process of Othering led to the construction of Established insiders based primarily on location, rather than gender. These Established insiders saw the need to protect their community and its way of life from Outsiders. The focal point for protection was the liminal space/phase that opened up on 'their' local waves as it was through temporal space that communitas was generated and thus community sustained. We illustrate how benign localism was exacerbated by overcrowding and how local surfers' experiences of localism made them aware of their becoming Outsiders in other surfing localities, modifying their behaviour accordingly. The paper also suggests that debates about localism need to view the concept as a continuum of attitudes and behaviours ranging from the benign to the heavy, and that attention needs paying to how localism varies between contexts and the ways in which localism may share social antecedents. Lastly, we highlight the utility of viewing the beach and wave as liminal spaces that give rise to communitas for those who surf it together regularly.

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‘Your Wave, Bro!’: virtue ethics and surfing

Cited by 23 publications

References 8 publications

Lifestyle sports delivery and sustainability: clubs, communities and user-managers

Lifestyle sports delivery and sustainability: clubs, communities and user-managers

‘Once a Local Surfer, Always a Local Surfer’: Local Surfing Careers in a Southwest English Village

‘It’s not something I’m proud of but it’s … just how I feel’: local surfer perspectives of localism

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