Nonverbal Gestures In Hockey

The gestures that we make in our day to day lives create a form of highly efficient nonverbal communication that allows for people to have full conversations without having saying a single word. It was quite interesting to take a small portion out of my day to just sit back and observe the movements and gestures of fellow human beings. I initially gravitated towards a junior hockey finals match at the Corner Brook Civic Center. The parents and the players, both of which were exhausted, were more than ready to head home from the ice and relax. All extrapolated factors made this the prime location to go and observe the non-verbal gestures of everyone involved. The subjects being unaware of my observing them allowed myself to get as accurate and an unbiased idea of their thoughts and feelings. All without verbal communication and the participants having no knowledge that they were being observed.

The blue team had roughly 18 players and 3 coaches while the white team had approximately 13 players and 2 coaches. There were two referees on the ice and there was one announcer who was also in charge of putting the score up on the board. In the stands there were roughly 100 people watching the game; I placed myself in the middle of a small collection of people in the section just as I walked through the main doors. This appeared to be the best vantage point to do my observing because I had a great angle of the fans sitting in the stands, as well as the people around me. This position also gave me the best place to be able to observe some of the players gestural movements, as well as giving me a full perspective of the entire arena; which allowed me to take my notes undetected on my phone without ever seeming like I was actually observing all of the people and their bodily