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 2, 2022 | Ecological Dynamics, Free, General, Growth
Three years ago, Shawn and I got together for a ‘short’ three-and-a-half-hour chat where we discussed all things movement. In our conversation, we discussed learning, practice design, and everything that we wished we would have known and had access to as younger...
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 21, 2022 | Ecological Dynamics, Growth
A number of days ago, my buddy, and a good friend of Emergence, Stuart McMillan, of ALTIS (website HERE) tagged myself, along with a number of other ecological approach advocates in a Twitter thread, asking a question which I feel is very important. Though there are...
