We’ve not started ours yet but I’d like to try a two guest format… No doubt we’ll discover why people don’t do it more often in due course 😂

Finally, I argue that it may be less the case that we can't 'put our understanding into words' as Bourdieu puts it, but more that some moral practices are supposed to be unspoken.

Synchronicity in training was seen as key to success. 'If the cobweb strings unite they can bind a lion' our coach said. But it was seen as requiring a lot of hard work to maintain in practice.

Being able to seamlessly follow in the footsteps of another, or to take over from them if they are faltering, is cultivated as an automatic response to be reproduced without conscious thought. As the sub-agent of our group put it, ‘If there is trust there is no need for words.’

Bourdieu wrote about skills being passed on 'through silent and practical communication from body to body'. I argue that affective dispositions like trust can also be passed on / cultivated in this way, and that synchronous drills are part of achieving this.

Training together in close proximity was understood to require a level of trust that was difficult to sustain. Therefore, training practices are deliberate 'trust work' designed to allow people to embody trust without thinking.