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Practicing in Groups with Athletes with Different Individual Constraints & Action Capacities

This is an issue I have been asked a lot about lately. As I have emphasized in both of my books, individualized coaching is one of the central tenets of the ecological approach to skill. We need to consider an individual athlete’s organismic constraints and intrinsic dynamics. We need to create affordances in the practice…

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Happy Halloween

Digging up a couple old scary episodes! 13A – Halloween Special: Superstitious Rituals in SportsHow prevalent are superstitious rituals in sports e.g., always wearing the same socks, eating the same meal or listening to the same music on game day? Do they serve actually serve a purpose? 39A – Halloween Special II: Effects of Fear…

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NEW Video: A Different Way of Thinking About Soccer Practice & Coaching

Ecological Optics & the Ambient Array: Gibson’s new conception of vision

NEW Paper: “Enskilment: an Ecological-Anthropological Worldview of Skill, Learning and Education in Sport”

Was very excited to be one of the co-authors on this new paper with Carl Woods, Keith Davids & James Rudd Open Access copy available here: https://sportsmedicine-open.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40798-021-00326-6

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Implementing a Constraints Led Approach (CLA) to Coaching in VR

My talk from the ESAN 2021 Pre-conference workshop: Developing perceptual cognitive expertise: Considerations for the role for virtual immersive technology

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Video: The Use of Contextual Info in Sports Re-Conceptualized as Calibration & Education of Intention

My presentation from ESAN 2021

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Article Review: Attentional focus and adaptation to instructional constraints

Skilled swimmers maintain performance stability under changing attentional focus constraints

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Article Review: Augmenting information for learning by changing equipment

Hitting weighted baseball enhances the experience of bat–ball contacts

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Article Review: An ecological account of interference when learning motor tasks

Interference of balance tasks revisited: Consolidation of a novel balance task is impaired by subsequent learning of a similar postural task

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