Blog/vlog

Blog
My thoughts on some random issues related to performance in sports

–Practicing in Groups with Athletes with Different Individual Constraints & Action Capacities, 2/8/2023
–My Favourite Research Papers of 2020 (Video Reviews), 12/14/2020
–The Two Skill Acquisition Approaches: Key Differences, 10/29/2020
–Why Cristiano Ronaldo’s Ability to Play “in the Dark” is not Evidence for Predictive Control, 10/23/2020
–How to make CLA gains “sticky”, 7/1/2020
–New Constraints Led Approach to Coaching (CLA) & Differential Learning Resource Pages, 6/3/2020
–Task Decomposition vs Task Simplification and How they Align with Skill Acquisition Approaches, 5/20/2020
–How, Why and When We Use Variability in Practice: Prescriptive Instruction vs Self-Organization, 5/15/2020
–The Connection Ball & Pitching: A Direct Comparison of Self-Organization vs Prescriptive Approaches, 5/13/2020
–Thoughts on the Astros’ Sign Stealing Scandal: How Knowing What’s Coming Alters Batting Performance, 2/6/2020
–Why is it difficult to catch a poorly thrown or kicked football? A perceptual perspective, 8/23/2017
–Eye & Head Movements in Batting: Challenging the “Truths”, 8/16/2017
–“Soft Focus” or Visual Pivot Point: Which Should Baseball Batters Use?, 8/9/2017
–Visual Information about Horizontal Pitch Movement: Sensitivity, Release Points & Eye Separation, 8/2/2017
–The Psychology of Quick Pitching & Altering Deliveries, 7/28/2017
–A Baseball Batter’s Perception of Spin & How it Relates to Hitting Performance, 6/29/2017
–Pitch Tunneling & Perceptually Equivalent Pitches, 6/24/2017
–New VR Transfer of Training Paper, 5/14/2017
–Bayes Theorem & Fantasy Football, 8/25/2016
–Is There a Choking Hangover?, 5/23/2016
–Analysis of Entropy in MLB Pitching, 5/2/2016
–Analysis of Handedness X Batting Stance in MLB, 4/25/2016
–Does Monty Hall Have a Hot Hand?, 1/8/2016
–Some Brief Thoughts on the “Kicking Crisis” in the NFL, 10/26/2015
–Why Am I Doing This Podcast?, 10/6/2015
–The Evolution of My Batting Simulator, 9/29/2015
–My Head Training Journey, 9/20/2015
–Pro Move Mini Motion Tracking System Review, 9/2/2015

Video Article Reviews
2021

Contextualized Skill Acquisition Research - Dexterity development in Brazil soccer

Equipment scaling, variability & information for learning

Donor Sports, Dance & Coordinating Degrees of Freedom

How should we use augmented information to aid coordination? Is too much dangerous?

Towards Individualized Optimization of Movement Coordination?

Is the Role of Expectancy & Choice in Motor Learning Being Oversold?

Searching for an Optimal Solution & The Role of Inherent Variability

Why “Implicit Learning” is not an Ecological Approach

Affordance-based control in soccer goalkeeping

Acquiring a new skill with pain

Can Adaptive Constraints Aid Motor Learning?

An ecological account of interference when learning motor tasks

Augmenting information for learning by changing equipment

Attentional focus and adaptation to instructional constraints

Perception as Ecologically Well-Posed Problem

2020

Motor Learning in the Real World

How Do We Achieve Consistent Movement Outcomes?

“The Effect of Fatigue on Movement Coordination”

Revisiting Lee et al.’s Classic Long Jumping Study

How do task constraints shape the organization of degrees of freedom in movement?

How a simple verbal instruction can alter movement coordination

Do we control our actions using affordances or the “current future”?

What factors influence the emergence of the control law for basketball shooting?

Challenging a learner at the optimal level promotes neuroplasticity

Is Bernstein’s Freezing-Freeing DF Progression a Universal Solution?

vlog

A behind the scenes look at the podcast and the research going on in my lab

vlog #8 - Using Dual Tasks to Study & Train Sports Skills

vlog #7 - Acting to Perceive

vlog #6 -Intermittent Vision

vlog #5 - Using illusions to study Perception & Action

vlog #4 - Perceptual-motor adaptation

vlog #3 - P&A News Extra!

vlog #2 - Harper's Twister in the Sun, Studying Glare Susceptibility

Vlog #1: New Lab Toys