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19.04.2025 07:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Panther Flow (Panther Flow)
The death of “Correct” biomechanics?
This is a fabulous video from @intrinzen that draws on a new paper by @MadhurMangalam that rips apart the notion of correct movement technique.
Must Watch!!
youtu.be/PIBZDv_EvDU?...
19.04.2025 07:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"But when you make different assumptions about the way that the brain works... instead of it being a linear, processing machine, you instead think of it as a dynamic system...So our consciousness is an emergent property..."
11.04.2025 12:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
How to avoid becoming a 'puppeteer coach'.
From my conversation with Jeffrey Wagman and Julia Blau (authors of 'An introduction to ecological psychology')
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4Y6kNO9...
Apple Podcasts:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Youtube:
www.youtube.com/@thetalenteq...
08.04.2025 14:22 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
My recent podcast with Steve Whelan where we explore his journey away from traditional tennis coaching and the challenges of working ecologically in a sport full of culturally resilient beliefs youtube.com/watch?v=RH69...
01.03.2025 09:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ep 168 - Alex Lascu - Learning Designer & Re-searcher
Talking Performance · Episode
In this episode we explore so many spaces, thinking out loud with #coaching topics like talent development, nonlinear pedagogy and fun.
open.spotify.com/episode/5afL...
02.02.2025 23:43 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Yes, Cognitive Psychology advocates HAVE systematically kicked the can down the road - it's a "science" based on faith that someday, someone else will bridge the gaps identified by everyone from Bergson and James to Deleuze and Guattari - see cognitioninaction.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/7.-g...
30.01.2025 19:57 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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29.01.2025 15:25 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Coach Danny
Why sports drills are a waste of time?
@dannyhatcher.bsky.social debunks a recent academic paper that tried to make criticisms of the ecological approach to learning and skill development…
youtu.be/R_wCHF_vfQQ?...
27.01.2025 11:25 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Podcast by @stu-arm.bsky.social with Shawn Myszka and Tyler Yearby, two authors particularly targeted in this paper
13.01.2025 17:47 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
So in my mind - I would rather be committed and wrong than uncommitted.
13.01.2025 17:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
More importantly…
Coaches will do a load of boring, isolated, technique drills (because that’s what they’ve always done)
And then they will switch to a game and stand back and say and do nothing (because they are being ecological)
That’s actually the worst of both worlds (I’ve seen it! A LOT!)
13.01.2025 17:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The irony of this is that he devalues the whole scientific enterprise in the process.
13.01.2025 17:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I can only assume that he’s doing this because coaching is getting interested in (what he sees as) the ‘wrong’ scientific ideas.
Ideas that don’t correlate with his particular brand of research…(or consultancy)
So he tells coaches that they can pick and choose…
13.01.2025 17:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Collins et al have campaigned for years that coaching should be more evidence led or evidence informed - but at a point when coaching is now getting interested in scientific ideas…he says that no one needs to worry, it’s complicated, ‘it depends’…just use your Professional Judgment…
13.01.2025 17:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I do worry about pluralism - but more from a real world perspective.
Coaching and ‘science’ are two words that did not go together until fairly recently
Even now, 90% of coaches will never even think to look at anything remotely scientific
Coaching is driven by ‘folk pedagogy’
13.01.2025 17:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I would argue that this empirical data stone can be thrown right back at Collins and his acolytes
Most of the studies that they would refer to as supporting their claims are either from other domains like formal education or from decontextualised lab studies.
Not to mention the replication crisis!
13.01.2025 16:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Couldn’t agree more about how egregious this is…it smacks of desperation…
‘That looks ‘iffy’ - let’s attack it because we haven’t got much else to go on’!
I have a Podcast coming out from those two Authors giving them an opportunity to respond to this abhorrent attack.
13.01.2025 16:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Ecological Dynamicists only go after straw men because there are so many of them everywhere!
If you see so many of these men everywhere you go they become less straw and more steel!
13.01.2025 15:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If anything it’s ’new wine in old bottles’
13.01.2025 15:37 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Conditioned games under a behaviourist or cognitive framing would be used as a way to make the athletes do what you want…i.e. play two touch to get everyone’s heads up and force them to pass.
A CLA in EcoD uses conditions to make aspects of the environment more or less attractive.
13.01.2025 15:37 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
What they get wrong is that they assume that the constraints led approach is the same as something like ‘conditioned games’. This conflation allows them to make the ‘old wine in new bottles’ claim but it really just shows the lack of knowledge of the approach.
13.01.2025 15:37 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Context Designer. Skill acquisition geek. Helping humans and horses do hard things.
(Created the Head First book series)
We are an education and employment charity that uses sport and apprenticeships to help young people facing barriers, discrimination and lack of opportunity make long-term positive change in their lives.
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social psychology ▪︎ metascience ▪︎ philosophy of science ▪︎ higher education
Professor at Durham University, UK. He/him.
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Cognitive psychologist interested in perception, illusions, sensorimotor control, and virtual reality.
I also blog for early-career academics: https://gavinbuckingham.wordpress.com/
An account for experimental philosophy - an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of philosophy and psychology https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_philosophy#:~:text=Experimental%20philosophy%20is%20an%20emerging,inform%20research%20on%20phi
Philosopher of perception and mind at the University of Dortmund. Interested in all things perceptual.
Webpage: https://gmphilosophy.wixsite.com/giuliamartina
Neuroscientific philosopher; Philosophical neuroscientist. Rotman Institute of Philosophy. CRC at University of Western Ontario. http://www.emrglab.org
PhD student studying multiscale dynamics of flow states and anticipation in co-adaptive contexts.
Ecological psychologist just trying to make psychology better at explaining us. I study the perceptual control of action and get cranky about politics and AI technologies. He/him
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