by Admin | Jul 7, 2022 | Coaching, Constraints, Ecological Dynamics, Skill Adaptation, Sport Movement
Everyone marvels at the most dexterous (Bernstein, 1996) display of movement in sports, and rightfully so! Have you ever asked yourself, “how do athletes coordinate and control their movements to seemingly find functional fits to the problems they face in...
by Admin | Jun 24, 2022 | Coaching, Constraints, Ecological Dynamics, Growth, Skill Adaptation, Sport Movement
If you’ve followed our work at Emergence over the last three years, you may have noticed a pretty apparent narrative being routinely delivered (or at least I hope that you have): we center our lens, perspective, and scope of analysis on the performer-environment...
by Admin | Jun 20, 2022 | Constraints, Ecological Dynamics, General, Growth, Skill Adaptation, Sport Movement
Over the last number of years, our team at Emergence has been grateful to be involved in locking arms with over two dozen individuals who have committed themselves to their Movement Form of Life through their participation in The Movement Academy (TMA). The increased...
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 | Mar 13, 2022 | Coaching, Ecological Dynamics, Skill Adaptation, Sport Movement
If you were to ask a coach where they start when they begin coaching their young athletes, I’m positive the word ‘fundamentals’ would pop up somewhere in their answer. As most of us understand, fundamentals are thought to be the foundation in skill development and are...
