Article Review: Can Adaptive Constraints Aid Motor Learning?
Can Physical Tools that Adapt their Shape based on a Learner’s Performance Help in Motor Skill Training?
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345 – Journal Club #30: An Ecological Approach to Youth Sports Coaching & Physical Education
345 I was joined by Mark O’Sullivan, James Rudd, Rich White and Michael Zweifel for a really interesting discussion about applying ecological dynamics to youth sports coaching and physical literacy.Download link Articles:Conceptualizing physical literacy within an ecological dynamics framework More information:Subscribe in iOS/AppleSubscribe in Android/GoogleMy Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)My ASU Web pagePodcast…
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Article Review: Acquiring a new skill with pain
Assessment of motor skill accuracy and coordination variability after application of local and remote experimental pain
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344 – Co-Adaptation: How Can Pitchers Exploit the Perceptual-Motor Strategies used by Hitters?
344 A discussion with Randy Sullivan from Florida Baseball Ranch and several professional baseball pitching coaches. Our topic was co-adaptation in baseball, looking at how a pitcher might exploit the perceptual-motor strategies that hitters are using against them.Download link More information:Subscribe in iOS/AppleSubscribe in Android/GoogleMy Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)My ASU Web pagePodcast…
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Article Review: Affordance-based control in soccer goalkeeping
Goalkeeping in the soccer penalty kick: The dive is coordinated to the kicker’s non-kicking leg placement, irrespective of time constraints
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343 – Journal Club #29: Exploring the Ecological Approach to Skill Acquisition
343 What are some of the misconceptions about it and how might we improve its understanding and application?Download link More information:Subscribe in iOS/AppleSubscribe in Android/GoogleMy Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)My ASU Web pagePodcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)Email: robgray@asu.edu Support the podcast and receive bonus content
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Article Review: Why “Implicit Learning” is not an Ecological Approach
The effect of explicit, implicit and analogy instruction on decision making skill for novices, under stress
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342 – A Constraints-Based, Grand Unifying Theory of Sports Performance
342 Can we use Newell’s constraints framework to unify the typically siloed subdisciplines (for example, skill acquisition, S&C and biomechanics) within sports science? A look at Paul Glazier’s Grand Unifying Theory of sports performance?Download link Articles:Towards a Grand Unified Theory of Sports Performance More information:Subscribe in iOS/AppleSubscribe in Android/GoogleMy Research Gate Page (pdfs of my…
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