Ed, Alan and Sam are skill acquisition specialists who work to bridge the research practice gap in applied settings. They work in individual and team sports across the performance pathway.
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#50 Ross Pinder
If you're a coach or high-performance thinker getting value from this podcast, join our Patreon community at patreon.com/TheConstraintsCollective Even $5/month helps keep it going — and you’ll unlock bonus podcasts, presentations, monthly meet ups and coaching insights.Ross is a skill acquisition specialist who has worked collaboratively to support sports in areas of sport science, coaching, innovation, and research. He has built an applied career substantively in Paralympic contexts, with a focus on driving change through creativity, empathy, complex thinking, negotiation, and an ability to communicate effectively. After 10 years with Paralympics Australia, Ross was recently seconded into the role of ‘Learning Design Lead’ at the AIS, where he oversees the development and implementation of a national skill acquisition and learning design strategy. Link to papers discussed in the podcast:https://www.aut.ac.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/380698/Representative-Learning-Design-and-Functionality-of-Research-and-Practice-in-Sport.pdfAskew Pinder Renshaw & Gorman (2023)[1].pdfhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/330596408_What_can_coaches_and_physical_education_teachers_learn_from_a_constraints-led_approach_in_para-sport
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#49 Alex Sarama
Alex Sarama is the founder of Transforming Basketball. He is widely regarded as an industry-leading practitioner within the field of contemporary skill acquisition and more specifically, the usage of the constraints-led approach. Sarama's bestselling Amazon book, Transforming Basketball, was released in April 2024. He has delivered clinics in over 40 countries around the world and worked as a coach developer for numerous organizations and international basketball federations. This includes work done in multiple sports outside of basketball.
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#48 Jonny Headrick
Dr Jonathon Headrick is a lecturer and researcher in the field of exercise and sports science. Jonny's expertise lies in skill-acquisition and learning design, where he continues to engage and collaborate with a range of sporting organisations and partners including the AIS, QAS, Paralympics Australia, Cricket Australia, Swimming Australia, Surfing Australia, and Basketball Queensland to support his impactful research.Bat-Weight Paper https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13414-012-0368-Proximity to Goal as Constraint Paper https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02640414.2011.640706Affective Learning Design Paper https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1469029214001137?via%3DihubPrincipled Approach to Skill- Acquisition in Surfing Paper https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17479541241279044Leveraging Biotensegrity for Sports Performance Paper https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10407413.2024.2448796Kurilpa Bridge - example of a tensegral structure https://www.coxarchitecture.com.au/project/kurilpa-pedestrian-bridge/
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#47 Affordances
In this episode Keith, Ian and Martyn discuss Gibson's theory of affordances. Level up your coaching game and join our Patreon community at patreon.com/TheConstraintsCollective
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