The sports experience of disabled bodies: towards a phenomenology of the wheelchair

Disability interrogates the relation between the embodied subject and the world. By forbidding quantity of experiences, the immobility seems to break the link which unites the subject with its body. Is the body affected in its motility always a real-life body, or as we sometimes hear him, a body burden, a body which it is necessary to escape? We are going to notice, from texts testifying of the physical real-life experience of disabled people, that disembodiment is a strategy often adopted in order to protect identity. Then, the analysis of interviews realized with powerchair soccer players is going to reveal that the sports movements of the body, by means of the power wheelchair, is going to restore the narrow link which united the person with his "world". So, we will show that the sports experience of the disabled body is a special way of construction and rehabilitation of the embodied subject.