Send us a textMy 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 , reallyUnderstands both the practice and science of coaching He Promotes moving away from scripted drills and embracing a more modern approach to skill development.  I really enjoyed this conversation and I hope you do as well!If you like today's episode, leave a review here....If you want to reach me directly, contact me on social media or shoot me @javier@emergentmvmt.com.Have you heard, the Sports Movement Skill Conference is BACK!?...Click here for early bird pricing!Looking to learn more about skill acquisition and sport movement?..Visit the Emergence website and take the next step in your coaching career!Episode Resources:Combat Learning Podcast Josh's Twitter Book - Verbal Judo Credits: Song- "Starstruck" by Freebeats.io Let's Chat!Twitter: @thecoachjavIG: @thecoachjav

The podcast discusses reconceptualizing sport movement as a problem-solving activity, exploring skill acquisition, unique athlete influences like Roy Jones, and empowering athletes through dynamic movement problem-solving. It emphasizes the importance of embracing dynamic problem-solving in athletic training and exploring degrees of freedom and movement complexity in sports, highlighting influential figures in the field.

Send us a textFor 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 have takeaways that you can implement into your practice design immediately!If you like today's episode, leave a review here....If you want to reach me directly, contact me on social media or shoot me @javier@emergentmvmt.com.Interested in hearing more from Emergence?..For as little as $5 per month, you can join the Exchange on Patreon for exclusive content including movement "deep dives" and much more!Looking to learn more about skill acquisition and sport movement?..Visit the Emergence website and take the next step in your coaching career!Credits: Song- "Starstruck" by Freebeats.io Let's Chat!Twitter: @thecoachjavIG: @thecoachjav

Send us a textGareth 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 are tactically adaptable, and he does that through an ecological approachWe discuss many topics including:How a coaches principles of play can potentially have a positive and negative impact on their teams We discuss how soccer tactics have changed over time Practice design periodizationIf you like today's episode, leave a review here....If you want to reach me directly, contact me on social media or shoot me @javier@emergentmvmt.com.Interested in hearing more from Emergence?..For as little as $5 per month, you can join the Exchange on Patreon for exclusive content including movement "deep dives" and much more!Looking to learn more about skill acquisition and sport movement?..Visit the Emergence website and take the next step in your coaching career. Episode Resources:Gareth's twitter Gareth's email: flitcroftg@gmail.comEpisode Webpage Credits: Song- "Starstruck" by Freebeats.io Let's Chat!Twitter: @thecoachjavIG: @thecoachjav

Send us a textWelcome 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 sciencesThis was a very enjoyable conversation w/ Carl.  Hope you enjoy!Interested in hearing more from Emergence?..For as little as $5 per month, you can join the Exchange on Patreon for exclusive content including movement "deep dives" and much more!Looking to learn more about skill acquisition and sport movement?..Visit the Emergence website and take the next step in your coaching career. Episode Resources:Carl's Twitter Carl on Research Gate Episode Webpage Credits: Song- "Starstruck" by Freebeats.io Let's Chat!Twitter: @thecoachjavIG: @thecoachjav

Send us a textToday, 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 University in the UK. Primarily his work is focused on the visual control of movement in sport during interceptive actions. Alongside his academic work, Ben coaches in football where he currently works for Ebbsfleet United Women, having previously held positions in the Womens National League and within non-league mens football.”Previous guest on episode 32 - Where we discussed his paper on visual gaze strategies in Elite soccer players Their project boing is all about physical literacy not just youth athletes but across all population.They provide the latest research about physical literacy, as courses, and resources for coaches. Which includes a book of over 100 games. Interested in hearing more from Emergence?..For as little as $5 per month, you can join the Exchange on Patreon for exclusive content including movement "deep dives" and much more!Looking to learn more about skill acquisition and sport movement?..Visit the Emergence website and take the next step in your coaching career. Episode Resources:Boing Website Will's page Ben's pageBen's twitter Episode 32 w/ Ben Credits: Song- "Starstruck" by Freebeats.io Let's Chat!Twitter: @thecoachjavIG: @thecoachjav

Send us a textFor 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 recently earned the role of the Clubs Director of Technical Training, a program traditionally based on isolated technical repetitions which Julian has morphed into a program that embraces movement abundance and representative learning design. Julian intends to ignite a fire of positive change in the United State's culture of soccer ranging from grassroots up to the professional game.Julian is one of the top young up and coming coaches in the space and does a great jon implementing ecological concepts in his practice. He also run a blog called "Makes Sense Soccer" and we discuss some of this blog posts.We discuss many things including his journey from technical model coach to one who embraces an ecoD approach and all the things that come w/ it!Looking to learn more about skill acquisition and sport movement?..Visit the Emergence website and take the next step in your coaching career. Episode Resources:Julian's twitter Julian's IG Julian's blog Credits: Song- "Starstruck" by Freebeats.io Let's Chat!Twitter: @thecoachjavIG: @thecoachjav

Send us a textFor 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 discussed enough. Injuries affect much more than just the motor system, and we dive into that topic today!If you like today's episode, leave a review here....If you want to reach me directly, contact me on social media or shoot me @javier@emergentmvmt.com.Looking to learn more about skill acquisition and sport movement?..Visit the Emergence website and take the next step in your coaching career. Episode Resources:My blog post Part 1 of the blog Episode 28Credits: Song- "Starstruck" by Freebeats.ioLet's Chat!Twitter: @thecoachjavIG: @thecoachjavCredits: Song- "Starstruck" by Freebeats.io Let's Chat!Twitter: @thecoachjavIG: @thecoachjav

Send us a textDr 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 design and how it can serve as framework for coaches to design their practice.If you like today's episode, leave a review here....If you want to reach me directly, contact me on social media or shoot me @javier@emergentmvmt.com.Looking to learn more about skill acquisition and sport movement?..Visit the Emergence website and take the next step in your coaching career. Episode Resources:Alex's article Alex's twitter Alex's latest articles and pod appearances Credits: Song- "Starstruck" by Freebeats.io Let's Chat!Twitter: @thecoachjavIG: @thecoachjav

Send us a textWe'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 be undergoing a rebrand, so don't be alarmed when you see a different logo in your feed in the next week.My mission will still be to deliver the best content possible so coaches can better serve their athletes , and these changes will only make that mission stronger!Listen to the episode today to hear more about what's to come!Credits: Song- "Starstruck" by Freebeats.io Let's Chat!Twitter: @thecoachjavIG: @thecoachjav