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 | 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...
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...
