by Admin | May 9, 2022 | Coaching, Constraints, Ecological Dynamics, Movement Meet-Up, Skill Adaptation, Sport Movement
Last week, I wrote a short blog post oriented around a real-life case study of the work that I did with an NFL player who partnered with me a number of years back. Of course, that piece was attempting to build upon a few of the practical examples which we included in...
by Admin | May 1, 2022 | Coaching, Constraints, Ecological Dynamics, Skill Adaptation, Sport Movement
In case you missed it, Tyler Yearby and I, were recently fortunate to lock arms with some wicked smart individuals in the movement skill community, Keith Davids, Will Roberts, and Carl Woods, on the writing of a first-of-its-kind paper entitled, Applying an ecological...
by Admin | Apr 17, 2022 | Constraints, Ecological Dynamics
There is nothing more magical than being a parent of a young, exploring mover. The evolving interaction with their environment and finding how their movements fit and grow with their changing world reminds me of the introduction from the Woods et al. (2020) paper,...
by Admin | Feb 28, 2022 | Coaching, Constraints, Ecological Dynamics, Skill Adaptation, Sport Movement
If you hear myself, or any of my colleagues at Emergence, speak about athletes solving movement problems in sport, it’s likely that at some point you will hear us discuss a dexterous athlete “finding a functional (or behavioral) fit to the movement problem.” For me,...
by Admin | Feb 14, 2022 | Coaching, Constraints, Ecological Dynamics, Skill Adaptation, Sport Movement
Over the beginning of 2022, it seems as though there have been a plethora of activities being shared across social media circles, which are purporting the use of an ecological approach through constraints, to enhance coordination, self-organization, and...
by Admin | Feb 7, 2022 | Coaching, Constraints, Ecological Dynamics, Skill Adaptation, Sport Movement
There is not a week that goes by where I don’t have someone, within the sport coaching or movement skill acquisition space, make the claim to me that not only does the breaking of a movement down to its component parts serve as a path towards “cleaning up irregular,...
