Send us a text On this episode, I'm joined by my guy Tyler Yearby and we answer your skill acquisition questions! We asked you on social media to post any burning questions you had heading into the new year and you delivered! Today, we answer those questions. Some of the topics we covered include: How Important is it for a coach to have experience playing the sport that they want to coach? What are the best games to use for youth athletes? How does skill acquisition fit into a training session? ...
Mar 20, 2024•45 min•Ep. 75
Send us a text My guest today is Nick Smallridge! Nick is a teacher and soccer coach in Bentonville, Arkansas, USA. He is he coach at Sporting AR 2007G Coach and the assistant varsity coach at Bentonville High School for the girls team. Nick has over 18 years of coaching experience including Socorro High School Boys Asst, Grassroots in Socorro, various levels, New Mexico Tech girls(college club) Qiziltepa Mahalla boys(UZ). He played soccer at FC Haka B1/B2 Finland and Drury University in Missour...
Mar 06, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 74
Send us a text My guest today is Dr. Andrew Wilson! Dr. Wilson an Ecological Psychologist and a researcher at Leeds Beckett University in the UK He is an internationally recognised expert in perception, action and embodied cognition. He gained his PhD in Psychology and Cognitive Science from Indiana University, Bloomington in 2005. His research interests are broadly in the area of perception and action, with a particular interest in learning and theories of embodied cognition. On this episode, w...
Feb 21, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 73
Send us a text My guest today is Rafe Kelley! Rafe is the founder of Evolve Move Play and is one of the foremost movement practitioners on the world. He's studied and practiced everything from parkour, gymnastics, various martial arts disciplines, and much more. Rafe absolutely crushes on this podcast and we discuss some very deep and interesting topics. If you want to learn more about Rafe and the EMP content, then I highly suggest visiting his website! We are launching a new program called the...
Feb 07, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 72
Send us a text My guest today is Chris McCosker!!..Chris is lecturer in the physical education, skill acquisition and motor control spaces at the Australian Catholic University with experience as a sport scientist for International, National and junior level athletes across sports including track and field, rowing, water polo, cricket, football (soccer) and baseball. The impetus for this episode was Chris' recent article that he wrote for Sportsmith titled " Vertical Jump Tests Come Up Short Aga...
Jan 17, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 71
Send us a text Welcome to today's show! On this episode, I'm joined by my guy Shawn Myzka and we answer YOUR 2024 coaching questions! We asked you on social media to post any burning questions you had heading into the new year and you delivered! Today, we answer those questions. Some of the topics we covered include: Game day warmups: Rote repetition vs a more variable approach to prepare athletes for competition What's a better term than skill acquisition? High representativeness vs injury prev...
Jan 03, 2024•52 min•Ep. 70
Send us a text My Guest today is Yuji Suzuki! Yuji works as a chiropractor and a remote coach to help people of all backgrounds overcome obstacles related to their health and fitness. Over the years, his education has shifted his views on how he can be most helpful to someone dealing with pain and injuries, particularly being informed by the updated models of pain and the ecological dynamics framework for approaching human movement. Yuji and I discuss many things skill acquisition, including how...
Dec 13, 2023•59 min•Ep. 69
Send us a text My Guests today are Stu McMillan and Shawn Myszka! Shawn has been on this podcast multiple times before, so you can refer this previous episodes for more info on his background. Stu is the sprints coach and CEO at Altis, which is one of the leading companies in in the world in coach educations Stu has over 25 years of experience in professional coaching and has personally coached over 70 olympians at 7 Olympic Games, with over 30 of those athletes winning olympic medals. His compa...
Nov 29, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 68
Send us a text My Guest today is Austin Jochum! Austin the owner of Jochum Strength in Minneapolis Minnesota. The inspiration for Jochum Strength came when Austin was 15 years old and was told he had herniated a disk in his back from squatting and that he wouldn't be able to move the same way again. Through years of research, self experimentation and lots of trial and errors Austin proved alot of what he was was told wrong. And you’ll see that not believing and following the status quo is a them...
Nov 15, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 67
Send us a text For today's episode, we are going to discuss how a coach can guide an athlete's search! As more and more people are starting to become aware of a modern approach to skill acquisition, there still seems to be this gap between knowledge and application. So today, I'm going to share w/ you 3 Ways to Guide An Athletes Search! If you're someone who's new to this approach, or even someone who has been implementing these ideas for a long time, this episode will have takeaways that you ca...
Nov 02, 2023•18 min•Ep. 66
Send us a text My guest today is Rob Nelson! Rob is the associate director of sports performance at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). He directly oversees all program design for women’s volleyball, baseball, women’s basketball, and track and field. Prior that Rob worked at Wofford College, St Francis, and IMG academy. I was first introduced to Rob via our mutual friend and head coach of UMBC, Kasey Crider. Both Rob and Kasey wanted to introduce more of an ecological apporach to th...
Oct 19, 2023•52 min•Ep. 65
Send us a text For today's episode, my guests are Drew Dunlop and Jacob Grossman! Drew and Jacob are the co-founders of The ProLane, a basketball skill sdevelopment facility. Drew directed the pre draft process of Miami Heat guard, Tyler Herro. He also coached 3 years in the Chinese Basketball Association and has served as a consultant for the Philippines basketball association. Jacob has experience with NBA, overseas, college and HS athletes. He has directed individual and small group training ...
Oct 03, 2023•56 min•Ep. 64
Send us a text For today's episode, my guest is Tyler Yearby!! Tyler has been a multi time guest on this podcast, appearing back in episode 24 and episode 1. This time around, Tyler and I discuss his travels to England and China discussing ecological dynamics and using a CLA in practice. One of the concepts that Tyler is presenting on is "Reconceptualizing the Role of a Sports Performance Coach", which is seeks to change the way coaches interact w/ their athletes. We dive into that in today's ep...
Sep 20, 2023•52 min•Ep. 63
Send us a text My guest today is Josh Peacock! Josh is the host of the Combat Learning Podcast. Josh is lifelong martial arts fanatic with over 20 years in the game, including 8+ years as an instructor. He currently holds 4th dan in taekwondo and a blue belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu — and has some sort of experience in most styles widely available today. His love for teaching and learning martial arts also led me to earn a master’s degree in Teaching & Learning. It's evident that Josh , really...
Sep 07, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 62
Send us a text For today's episode, my guest is Shawn Myszka!! Shawn has been a multi time guest on this podcast, appearing back in episode 53 and episode 38 . This time around, Shawn and I discuss his new paper he authored alongside Tyler Yearby and Keith Davids, titled "Reconceptualizing Movement Behavior in Sport as a Problem-Solving Activity". In addition to that, Shawn and I go down many rabbit holes regarding the topics of skill acquisition and coaching...Enjoy!! If you like today's episod...
Aug 24, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 61
Send us a text For today's episode, we are going to discuss 3 ways to help make your practice design more ecological! As more and more people are starting to become aware of a modern approach to skill acquisition, there still seems to be this gap between knowledge and application. So today, I'm going to share w/ you 3 Ways to Make Your Practice More Ecological. If you're someone who's new to this approach, or even someone who has been implementing these ideas for a long time, this episode will h...
Aug 17, 2023•19 min•Ep. 60
Send us a text Gareth is currently coaching in Step 6 of the English Non-League pyramid. Previously he coached in the top tier of the Welsh football league pyramid - Cymru Premier - for two different teams. Gareth has experience coaching abroad in the the USA, Honduras, Catalonia and the UK. Gareth is also a coach educator at MBP school of coaches. An online coach development program. The game's tactical sphere has always been what has interests him most and He believes in Developing teams that ...
Aug 02, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 59
Send us a text Welcome to today's show!...My guest today is Carl Woods! Carl is a principal research fellow in the Institute for Health and Sport at Victoria University. Oriented at the intersection of sport science, ecological psychology and social anthropology, his research broadly relates to skill, knowing, and the exploration of more responsive approaches to inquiry in the sports sciences This was a very enjoyable conversation w/ Carl. Hope you enjoy! Interested in hearing more from Emergenc...
Jul 12, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 58
Send us a text Today, I'm joined by Will Roberts and Ben Franks! Will is a senior lecturer at the University of Waikato in New Zealnd. Will is an experienced coach, and coach educator and has worked extensively in the UK. His work includes includes organisations such as the Premier League, Sport England, UK Coaching, Southampton Football Club, Manchester United Football Club, the English Cricket Board amongst others. Ben Franks is a lecturer in applied coaching science at Oxford Brookes Universi...
Jun 21, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 57
Send us a text For today's show, I'm joined by Julian Khalili! Julian, is a USSF Licensed and ecological dynamics inspired coach. Julian's full time position is as a youth coach, and Coordinator of Zone 1 ages U6-U12 ages (recently extended to U14) at Richmond Kickers Youth Soccer Club in Virginia As Zone 1 Coordinator, he is responsible for developing and overseeing a consistent player development identity across the club in collaboration with relevant age group / program directors. He has rece...
Jun 07, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 56
Send us a text For today's show, I'm joined by my friend and now co-worker, Rich White from Emergence! Rich is a multi time guest on the podcast and was most recently on in Episode 28. Last time, Rich was asking most of the questions and we dove deep into a blog post I did for Emergence about "Bridging the Gap" between return to play and performance. This time we are tackling part 2 of the blog series, titles "Injury and Affordance Perception" . This is a really important topic that doesn't get ...
Jun 01, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 55
Send us a text Dr Alex Lascu is a skill acquisition amateur (lover of) and research assistant at the University of Canberra. She exists in the gap between research and practice in sport coaching, in the hopes of one day bringing these worlds together. Alex also has a background as a cricket coach, which we get into during the episode. I had heard of Alex before but really first came across her work after after reading her article “What Needs to Be Real?” Which dives into representative learning ...
May 17, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 54
Send us a text We've got some got some BIG news for you today!... I will officially be joining the team over at Emergence! For those of you who don't know, Emergence is a leading movement skill education company who provides the highest quality educational content to coaches across the world. This has been something that me, and the team at Emergence have been working on for awhile and I'm excited for the changes and what's to come. One of those changes will be to the podcast! The podcast will b...
May 09, 2023•18 min
Send us a text For today's show, I'm joined by Shawn Myszka and Tyler Yearby! Shawn and Tyler have been on the podcast a few times, so I won't bother spending too much time on their bio. Shawn and Tyler are the Co-director's of education at Emergence and have also come together to co-author a series of published articles, the first of which we discussed in episode 24. This time around, we discuss their new paper, which is centered around the teaching and philosophies of Bruce Lee. Their paper is...
Apr 26, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 53
Send us a text Welcome to today's show!...My guests today are Martijn Lips and Paul Nelson ! Martijn is a lecturer at SOMT University of Physiotherapy and sports physical therapist from the Netherlands. He focuses mostly on readaptation of lower extremity injuries, predominantly ACL-injuries. He approaches human movement and readaptation from an Ecological perspective and believe this should have a more prominent place in a physical therapy setting. Because of this he co-founded The Sports Pract...
Apr 05, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 52
Send us a text Welcome to today's show! In this episode, I share the conversation I had w/ Brian Willis on his platform, The Excellence in Training Academy! Brian is the founder of Winning Mind training - provides resources to law enformanance professional including seminars and courses He is also the lead educator and founder of the Excellence in training academy - a professional development platform for Law enforcement and front line leaders Brian is recognized throughout North America as a ca...
Mar 08, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 51
Send us a text Today we are celebrating episode NUMBER 50 of the podcast! One of my favorite parts of doing this podcast is being able to share the lessons that I learn and the wisdom I've gained from my guests with all of you! Today, we are going to discuss the lesson of "Greatest Coaching Investments". I will be sharing the answers to those questions from 4 amazing guests from 3 of my favorite episodes: Greg Souders Korey Van Wyk Tyler Yearby Shawn Myszka It's been a fun ride up to this point ...
Mar 01, 2023•26 min
Send us a text Welcome to the Athlete Blueprint Podcast! Sometimes in the world of skill acquisition, the vocabulary can be bit challenging. Even worse, some of the words are even misunderstood and misused. For today's episode, we take a closer look at one of those words...Skill acquisition (the irony!). We why the phrase skill adaptation is a more accurate phrase and how coaches can help their athletes adapt their own skill. If you like today's episode, leave a review here. ...If you want to re...
Feb 15, 2023•23 min•Ep. 49
Send us a text For today’s episode, I’m joined by Dave Laughlin! Dave is the director of assessment and skill acquisition at Courtex performance Courtex is a mental performance and leadership program that specializes in working with athletes. Dave is in charge of Courtex's assessment and research operations, and provides mental training services to select clients. As a former collegiate athlete and coach, and current college professor, Dave understands the mental game in both theory and applicat...
Feb 08, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 48
Send us a text For today's episode my guest is Austin Einhorn! ( @apiros.team ) Austin is the head coach and owner of Apiros in Santa Cruz, California! Austin has had the privilege of creating a positive change in the lives of countless youth athletes, in addition to many professional athletes from the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, PGA, USTA, professional surfing, and professional volleyball. Austin is also the owner of The Evolved Coach , education platform which includes courses and a soon to be book of...
Jan 24, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 47
