Georgia Askew is a skill acquisition specialist with Para Table Tennis, Australia. She is also a Ph.D. candidate at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, studying the integration of skill acquisition with paralympic coaches and athletes. Georgia is also a Melbourne Storm fan!Links to Georgia's academic publicationshttps://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sports-and-active-living/articles/10.3389/fspor.2022.848735/fullhttps://journals.humankinetics.com/view/journals/iscj/11/1/article-p154...
Jim McKay is an Australian professional rugby union football coach. He has held head coaching positions across the world including Brisbane City (Australia), Cornish Pirates (UK) and Kobelco Steelers (Japan), and assistant coaching positions with the Queensland Reds (winning premierships in 2011 and 2021), and the Australian Wallabies Rugby Union Football team. Jim uses theory and data to inform his coaching practice and is a lifelong learner.Links to Jim's papers are here:Practicing Unstruct...
Dr Alex Lascu is a skill acquisition amateur (lover of) and researcher at the University of Canberra and Victoria University. Their love of learning and development is currently being explored with WA Cricket, in the hopes of helping every coach start, and continue, their own learning journeys to help young people love sport for a lifetime.Dr Alex also runs the https://skillacqlascu.com/ website. Enjoy!Check out the The Constraints Collective Patreon site at patreon.com/TheConstraintsCol...
In this episode we introduce our Patreon site. The site will be updated on the 1st of every month with access to a range of education materials. In addition to education materials we will also be hosting a monthly get together on Zoom.Check out the site at patreon.com/TheConstraintsCollective
Ana Ramos, Ph.D., is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Sport, University of Porto, and a member of the Centre of Research, Education, Innovation, and Intervention in Sport. Ana is also a European level volleyball coach and coach educator. Within the area of Sports Sciences, her research interests are related to the topics of sports training, sports pedagogy, practice design, didactics, action research, long-term athlete development, and performance analysis.Enjoy the show!
In this episode with discuss the challenge of changing the tackle height in rugby league. Does this challenge need a shift in focus away from solving problems for players to providing environments that set problems and challenges for players to solve?To help us make sense of this issue we are joined by Anthony Sullivan and Cameron Owen. Anthony Sullivan is a Welsh former professional dual code international rugby league and union footballer who played in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. He pl...
Carl has over 20 years of experience in teaching and coaching rugby. He is currently the Coach Education Manager and Performance Lead at the National Rugby League (NRL), where he collaborates with the National Education Program Development team to design, develop, and deliver a sustainable long-term Performance Coach Program in Rugby League. He is also a PhD candidate at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), researching the factors that influence creative decision-making in rugb...
Jack is a PhD student at La Trobe University. He is interested in the Ecological Dynamics Framework and its application to shooting, where he is uniquely positioned to combine his sports science background with extensive experience as an ISSF rifle shooter. Jack has shot for Great Britain at European Championships, World Cups, and the World Championships. He is actively applying his shooting knowledge by coaching ISSF rifle athletes in Australia, from athletes just starting out to those ...
In this episode we are joined by Jamie Hamilton. Jamie is a UEFA A-licenced coach, an academy coach with Ayr United FC, and is football writer (check out his Medium page for some excellent articles, link below). We discuss football tactics and theory, and how these ideas might be applied in practice. Enjoy! X: @stirling_j Medium: https://medium.com/@stirlingj1982
Matt is a coach, coach developer and lecturer in sport coaching with fifteen years’ experience across grass roots, elite and paralympic environments covering team and individual sports. Theoretically underpinned by an Ecological Dynamics rationale of learning, Matt’s research explores how coach learning can be guided in context by a coach developer. As a coach, Matt has been a British Athletics team member (speed and hurdles) on seven international age group teams. His first selection being a...
Matt is a coach, coach developer and lecturer in sport coaching with fifteen years’ experience across grass roots, elite and paralympic environments covering team and individual sports. Theoretically underpinned by an Ecological Dynamics rationale of learning, Matt’s research explores how coach learning can be guided in context by a coach developer. As a coach, Matt has been a British Athletics team member (speed and hurdles) on seven international age group teams. His first selection being a...
Part 2 of the episode with Duarte Araújo, where we discuss the role of cognition in sport performance. Duarte is the director of Expertise in Sport at the Faculty of Human Kinetics at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Duarte is also the head of the Interdisciplinary Centre for the study of Human Performance (CIPER) a national research unit funded by the Portuguese Government. His research influences applied practice all over the world, which includes sport expertise, decision-making, c...
This week we are joined by Duarte Araújo to discuss the role of cognition in sport performance. Duarte is the director of Expertise in Sport at the Faculty of Human Kinetics at the University of Lisbon, Portugal.Duarte is also the head of the Interdisciplinary Centre for the study of Human Performance (CIPER) a national research unit funded by the Portuguese Government. His research influences applied practice all over the world, which includes sport expertise, decision-making, cognition and ...
This week we are joined by Paul Garner live from the Manchester Festival of Coaching. Paul is an Assistant Professor in Sport Coaching and Player Development at the University of Birmingham. Paul has represented Great Britain as a member of the British Alpine Skiing Demonstration Team, and has worked extensively in snow sports as a performer, coach, coach developer and assessor. Paul continues to work closely with a number of governing bodies to drive excellence in coach education, developmen...
This week we are joined by Craig Morris, who has been a British Canoe Slalom performance coach for the past 20 years. Craig started his career as a pathway development lead in the Olympic sport of Canoe Slalom, he found a home in coaching at the age of 23. The process of co-creation in the pursuit of growth and performance enthralled and drove him to work tirelessly to learn more of himself, others and the concept of learning itself. Many years later as personal coach to multiple O...
This week we are joined by Marianne Davies from UK Coaching to discuss how an ecological perspective is influencing the design and development of coach education and development in the UK.Marianne’s coaching experience includes more than 25 years of working in adventure sports, academic and corporate environments. She is a coach developer, coach educator, and national trainer. Marianne is currently working as a Senior Coach Developer for UK Coaching. This role includes shaping learning and de...
In this episode we are joined by Véronique Richard from the University of Queensland. Véronique specialises in performance psychology and creativity, working across research and applied environments. She is currently conducting applied research combining creativity and movement sciences to optimize performance, health and wellbeing. In her prior roles as a mental performance consultant for Canadian national sport organisations and Cirque du Soleil, Véronique observed the challenges of ba...
In this episode we explore applying the CLA in golf coaching with Pete Arnott. Pete is performance coach consultant and host of the Practice Thinkers podcast. He shares a wealth of experiences and discusses the nuances of working within a CLA framework.Enjoy! Links to golf focused resources www.practicethinkers.com https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tiger-Practice-Guide-Training-Champion-ebook/dp/B0CKLZKZN9https://www.routledge.com/A-Constraints-Led-Approach-to-Golf-Coaching/Renshaw-Arnott-Mc...
In this episode we start where we left off in episode 2, and continue the discussions about Newell's 1986 book chapter entitled "Constraints on the Development of Coordination". We also discuss a 1994 paper that started to introduce the ideas of ecological dynamics entitled "The natural physical alternative to cognitive theories of motor behaviour: An invitation for interdisciplinary research in sports science?"Links to both papers are below.Newell 1986 https://grants.hhp.uh.edu/clayne/H...
In this episode we are re-joined by a previous guest, Noah LaRoche. In true co-design fashion Noah sets the agenda and asks a range of questions about applying the CLA in practice. We explore the challenge of representative learning design and ask the question "how representative does practice have to be for transfer to occur?". Enjoy!Website: www.theconstraintscollective.comEmail: info@theconstraintscollective.com