Points of Entry

• Listen
  • The Legacy of Nikolai Bernstein I: Problems in Movement Coordination
  • The Legacy of Nikolai Bernstein II: Skill Acquisition through Free(z)ing Degrees of Freedom
• Read
  • Dexterity & Its Development
  • Skill as Search
• Watch
  • Nikolai Bernstein’s Lab
  • From Freezing to Freeing to Coordinative Structures: Solving the DF Problem in Skilled Movement

Paths to Explore

• Listen
  • Freezing Degrees of Freedom as an Early Movement Solution
  •  Coordinative Structures in Skilled Performance
• Read
  • The Bernstein Perspective: I. The Problems of Degrees of Freedom and Context-Conditioned Variability
  • Changes in coordination, control and outcome as a result of extended practice on a novel motor skill
• Watch
  • Is Bernstein’s Freezing-Freeing DF Progression a Universal Solution?

Points of Entry

• Listen
  • The Why, What, How & When of Movement Variability
  • P&A Court II: Low vs High Variability in Motor Control & Learning
• Read
  • https://perceptionaction.com/vp/
  • Does noise provide a basis for the unification of motor learning theories?
• Watch
  • Practice Variability in Training of Motor Skills

Paths to Explore

• Listen
  • Variability of Practice Revisited
  • Interview with Damian Farrow, Victoria University/AIS, Practice Design
• Read
  • Exploring the applicability of the contextual interference effect in sports practice
• Watch
  • Article Review: How Do We Achieve Consistent Movement Outcomes?

Points of Entry

• Listen
  • Prescriptive Instruction vs Self Organization: Comparative Research & Playing Both Sides
  • Reflections on the FBR Summit: Putting Self Organization into Practice
• Read
  • Self organisation and constraints in sports performance
  • What Exactly is Acquired During Skill Acquisition?
• Watch
  • The Two Skill Acquisition Approaches: Key Differences
  • Self-Organization Overview

Paths to Explore

• Listen
  • Self Organization & Self-Regulation in Skill Acquisition: Clarifying Some Confusions
• Read
  • The Connection Ball & Pitching: A Direct Comparison of Self-Organization vs Prescriptive Approaches
  • Task Decomposition vs Task Simplification and How they Align with Skill Acquisition Approaches
• Watch
  • Ecological Dynamics
  • Ecological Skill Acquisition Terminology: Why is it so damn complicated?

Points of Entry

• Listen
  • Embodied Perception in Sport
  • The Legacy of James J Gibson II: The Theory of Affordances & Its Application to Sports,
  • Journal Club #13: Affordances
• Read
  • Embodied perception in sport
  • Information, affordances, and the control of action in sport
• Watch
  • Affordances

Paths to Explore

• Listen
  • How Do Action Capabilities Constrain Affordance Perception & Decision Making
  • Affordance Based Control
• Read
  • How the Body Knows Its Mind: The Surprising Power of the Physical Environment to Influence How You Think and Feel
• Watch
  • The Embodied an Embedded Theory of the Mind

Points of Entry

• Listen
  • The Constraints-Led Approach to Coaching I: What are Constraints?
  • The Constraints-Led Approach to Coaching II: Dynamics & Representative Design
• Read
  • The Dynamics of Skill Acquisition: An Ecological Approach
  • https://perceptionaction.com/cla/
• Watch
  • “Roots not Branches”: Why the Ecological Approach is not Just a Set of Alternative Training Methods

Paths to Explore

• Listen
  • The Constraints-Led Approach to Coaching III: Evaluating its Effectiveness
  • The Constraints-Led Approach to Coaching IV: Why do we “Constrain”?
• Read
  • When and How to Provide Feedback and Instructions to Athletes?—How Sport Psychology and Pedagogy Insights Can Improve Coaching Interventions to Enhance Self-Regulation in Training
• Watch
  • Article Review: Contextualized Skill Acquisition Research – Dexterity development in Brazilian soccer

Points of Entry

• Listen
  • Differential Learning
  • Differential Learning II: Contextual Interference vs Stochastic Resonance
  • Interview with Wolfgang Schollhorn, Mainz, Differential Learning
• Read
  • https://perceptionaction.com/dl/
  • Does noise provide a basis for the unification of motor learning theories?
  • An Exploratory Meta-Analytic Review on the Empirical Evidence of Differential Learning as an Enhanced Motor Learning Method
• Watch
  • Intro: Differential Learning System

Paths to Explore

• Listen
  • Adding Variability, Execution Redundancy & “Essential Noise” to Practice with Equipment Modifications
  • Differential Learning III: Clarifying Methodology, Acute Training Effects & Brain Activity
• Read
  • The Nonlinear Nature of Learning – A Differential Learning Approach
  • Comparing the constraints led approach, differential learning and prescriptive instruction for training opposite-field hitting in baseball
• Watch
  • Does the structure and amount of variability in practice matter?

Points of Entry

• Listen
  • Donor Sports & the Value of Non Sport Specific Practice
  • Improving “impoverished practice environments”
• Read
  • Nonlinear Pedagogy and the Athletic Skills Model
  • Physical Literacy – A Journey of Individual Enrichment: An Ecological Dynamics Rationale for Enhancing Performance and Physical Activity in All
• Watch
  • Journal Club #30: An Ecological Approach to Youth Sports Coaching & Physical Education
  • Nonlinear Pedagogy

Paths to Explore

• Listen
  • Exploring representative practice design
  • Interview with Mark O’Sullivan, AIK, Affordances, Practice Design & Talent Development
• Read
  • Nonlinear Pedagogy and the Athletic Skills Model: The Importance of Play in Supporting Physical Literacy
  • Scaling junior sport competition: A body-scaling approach?
  • Beyond a one-size-fits-all approach to coaching
• Watch
  • Power of Play

Points of Entry

• Listen
  • Constraining Vision to Educate Attention & Promote Skill Acquisition
  • Are there General Perceptual-Motor Abilities? Should we be Testing & Training Them?
  • Virtual Environments for Training & Understanding Sports Skills I: Why, How and When?
• Read
  • Virtual environments and their role in developing and understanding perceptual-cognitive skills
• Watch
  • Implementing a Constraints Led Approach (CLA) to Coaching in VR
  • Article Review: Towards Individualized Optimization of Movement Coordination?

Paths to Explore

• Listen
  • “I’m not anti-technology…I’m just pro human”
  • New Research on Generalized Perceptual-Cognitive Training
  • An Ecological Dynamics Assessment of Perceptual-Cognitive & VR Training in Sport
• Read
  • Evaluating Weaknesses of “Perceptual-Cognitive Training” and “Brain Training” Methods in Sport: An Ecological Dynamics Critique
  • Effectiveness and efficiency of virtual reality designs to enhance athlete development: an ecological dynamics perspective
• Watch
  • Perception & Action Journal Club #10: VR Training for Sport

Points of Entry

• Listen
  • An Ecological Approach to Sports Injury Prevention & Adaptation (Not Recovery),
• Read
  • https://perceptionaction.com/injury/
  • Reviewing the Variability-Overuse Injury Hypothesis: Does Movement Variability Relate to Landing Injuries?
• Watch
  • Perception & Action Journal Club #7: Focus of Attention Instructions & Cueing in Injury Rehab
  • Perception & Action Journal Club #17 – Using Biomechanics Analysis to Reduce Injury & Improve Performance

Paths to Explore

• Listen
  • Interview with Anne Benjaminse, Groningen, Attentional Focus in Injury Prevention & Recovery
• Read
  • Principles of Motor Learning to Support Neuroplasticity After ACL Injury: Implications for Optimizing Performance and Reducing Risk of Second ACL Injury
  • Increased Risk of Musculoskeletal Injury Following Sport‑Related Concussion: A Perception–Action Coupling Approach
• Watch
  •  Journal Club #16: What are “normal movements” in atypical populations?,