Concomitance of high-level sport

Abstract

The athletic gesture is primarily a spectacular product that induces aesthetic feelings to those who perform it and the spectators as well. Interconnection and interaction through communication are concomitantly achieved, generating an eminently psychosocial process as the prerogative of both those with reputation and the initiated audience. Concomitance appears as nonverbal motor ease resulting from professional and social skills, sport being a fertile ground for its manifestation. It is desired and appreciated by both athletes in the arena and the public that participates in formative or competitive events, regardless of the branch of sport. The factors with an impact on the range of concomitance are cognitive, affective and social in nature, representing indicative landmarks for managers in forming and leading sports teams. Performance is the criterion for team assessment. A particular form of concomitance arises between the partners playing in doubles teams or those constraint by regulations to play in other teams of up to eight people. The affinity between members is highlighted by the reflexively applied and perfectly coordinated choreography. Any high-value performance is achieved through concomitance, which involves suffering and pain that are endured with stoicism and joy (As a form of masochism?). It is the art of suffering, which reveals what is beautiful and good. The sublimity of the performance is concomitantly experienced with great intensity by both athletes and spectators.