Our bodies seem to intuitively know that variability will also keep us safe. Rather than stressing the same things over and over, variability creates a robustness, thus helping expose the body to whatever it may encounter in the performance environment.

The constraints led approach isn’t about leading the athlete to the movement you want. It helps shape the information the athlete is connecting to, creating powerful information-movement couplings that channel the movement behavior that emerges. When you use constraints to try

It’s almost like our youth have prepared in environments where they are mostly unopposed. 🤔 researchgate.net/publication/38…

Environmental constraint 😂

A little over a week ago I had the privilege of being a part of the initial group to test to become a Certified Skill Acquisition Specialist. I’m pleased to announce that I passed! It was unquestionably the hardest thing I’ve prepared for. Kudos to the team at Emergence for

Back on 6/28, Kyle Dupic successfully completed his in-person portions of the Certified Skill Acquisition Specialist testing & did so with flying colors! I was thoroughly impressed with how he was able to flex his muscle across various skill acquisition related contexts.

The next time you are thinking about pitching mechanics, make sure the scale of analysis is the performer-ENVIRONMENT relationship. #widenyourgaze

"Our degrees of freedom are able to adjust contribution thereby allowing for the same output in different (variable) ways." This was a note I made in one of my old notebooks while reading an article. It was commenting on the idea of physiological constraints (in this example,

“And it again reminds me why chasing a certain biomechanical "solution" probably isn't the best use of our athletes time. At the very least, it disregards the problem the athlete is embedded in, which will shape and form the coordination patterns emerging. In addition, it

“It also re-invigorates me this morning on why we need adaptability instead of repeatability.” Yet most practices and drills are the polar opposite. Coaches at youth/hs lack basic knowledge of adaptability. This is regarding all sports.

Love this. As an S&C coach for several years, I didn’t respect why movement emerged in the performer-environment relationship. I honestly think I was scared to admit that maybe my athletes FreeLap times didn’t actually mean all that much when an athlete got into the real game.

⁦What a great day for ⁦Ed-Co Baseball⁩ to improve our craft. Thank you to ⁦Wartburg Baseball⁩ for sending Kyle Dupic⁩ ⁦and Hunter Destival⁩ to work with our ⁦3-6th graders this morning and 7-12 this afternoon. It was a great day of learning with takeaways for all!

I’m not sure enough people ask the question “when is it enough?” in relation to climbing the ladder, getting a promotion, accepting a position at a more “prestigious” organization. What is it you’re really chasing and will that position actually fulfill what you’re longing for?

More advanced performers are more perceptually attuned. So when you see that pro athlete add some bat speed or pitch velocity, it isn't accurate to say that is what made them better. It likely opened a door for them to connect in more ways to the rich landscape of affordances.

Perfect timing. I raised a similar question at our staff recruiting meeting a few weeks back when we were talking about scouting bat-to-ball skills for hitters, which doesn’t fit nicely into our showcase metrics. I’ve been researching myself, working with our staff, and enlisting

Is the movement solution meeting the problem at hand? Don't get so focused on the movements themselves that you forget to ask what context it is currently being performed in. What is the problem they need to solve? Does this movement solution solve said problem?

Technique isn't something to be perfected, but something to help become adaptable. "Practice does not consist in repeating the means of a solution of a motor problem time after time, but in the process of solving this problem again and again by techniques which we changed and

Many of our systems preparing athletes for the performance context create stability, but at the expense of flexibility. From an ecological framework, we are interested in metastability - the ability to hold that tension between stability and flexibility of movement solutions.