Movement expert Todd Hargrove discusses the benefits of exploring movement over corrections, the Feldenkrais Method, and the role of play in enhancing skills and movement capacity. The conversation touches on slow movements for body awareness, movement variability in physical therapy, and the multi-factorial nature of pain.

Exploring the importance of balancing challenge and motivation in practice sessions for optimal learning outcomes. Discussing the extended challenge point framework for practice design in sports coaching. Exploring the benefits of challenging practice conditions and small-sided games for skill development in sports training. Delving into direct learning theory and transition feedback in practice design.

How do the components of our motor system flexibly reorganize in response to task demands? How do we use information about performance errors (knowledge of results) to search for new organizations? Do these processes involve the use of hard-wired motor programs or softly assembled devices specific to the constraints associated with the individual and task?   Articles: Task specific devices and the perceptual bottleneck Search strategies in practice: Influence of information and task constraints Soft-Assembly of Sensorimotor Function http://psychsciencenotes.blogspot.com/2011/06/task-specific-devices-and-perceptual.html?m=1   More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google   Support the podcast and receive bonus content   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies – Shake\Some Action Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

A look at the recent systematic review of decision making in sports. Is decision making best explained as being emergent, mental model driven or both? Is this an example of integrating direct and indirect theories of perception?     Articles/Links: Understanding a Player’s Decision-Making Process in Team Sports: A Systematic Review of Empirical Evidence Continuous hitting movements modeled from the perspective of dynamical systems with temporal input   More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google   Support the podcast and receive bonus content   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies – Shake\Some Action Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

Exploring the 10 commandments for an ecological approach to skill acquisition research and coaching. Debunking claims that cherry-pick aspects of ecological psychology. Discussing the Helmholtzian view of perception and rejecting the need for mental models. Emphasizing the drawbacks of relying on internal mental processes in skill development. Exploring the role of education in attention, intention, and calibration in learning without knowledge stores and representation.

How does pain shape learning and re-learning to move? How does it change the field of affordances available to an athlete? What is the best way to treat it?   Articles/Links: Pain and the field of affordances: an enactive approach to acute and chronic pain   https://youtu.be/Xn05zbO4Y-w     More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google   Support the podcast and receive bonus content   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies – Shake\Some Action Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

Why did I make the switch in my career from thinking about skill as an indirect, predictive process involving internal models to direct perception, ecological dynamics?  Why do I think the latter is a better approach to understanding and developing skill?     Articles: “Markov at the Bat”: A Model of Cognitive Processing in Baseball Batters A model of motor inhibition for a complex skill: Baseball batting     More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google   Support the podcast and receive bonus content   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies – Shake\Some Action Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

What is the difference between using online vs offline information to our control our actions on the one hand and the dichotomy between direct vs indirect perception, on the other? How have these been used incorrectly in many attempts to integrate skill acquisition approaches? An attempt at some clarification.   Articles/Links: Expert Anticipatory Skill in Striking Sports The use of contextual priors and kinematic information during anticipation in sport: toward a Bayesian integration framework Review: Approaches to Visual-motor Control in Baseball Batting   https://youtu.be/77zEoTKQ7h0     More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google   Support the podcast and receive bonus content   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies – Shake\Some Action Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

How can we apply an ecological approach to coaching volleyball? Are the ideas of “repetition without repetition” and motor synergies supported by research on this sport? What has research shown about the benefits of using the CLA and differential learning in volleyball? https://youtu.be/c_yWNTxzaVE https://youtu.be/oULzGe8Lnf4   More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google   Support the podcast and receive bonus content   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies – Shake\Some Action Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com

Can athletes learn to use the auditory information available in a sports environment to improve their performance? Can we see all around us with sound? For those that aren’t familiar with his story, Brian Bushway started to go blind when he was 14 and now has no response to light at all. But amazingly he can still see! Brian has learned to echolocate. That is, he uses the auditory information that naturally occurs in our environment, the sounds bouncing around off objects, to localize and identify objects and events. He uses this to mountain bike, ice skate and perform a host of other activities. Now, with the help of Tom he is trying to teach athletes to do this, both those that visually impaired like himself and normally sighted athletes.   Links: https://acousticathletics.com/ https://www.brianbushway.com/ Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFvH7NF4MSw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWbWBWH8OYk   More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google   Support the podcast and receive bonus content