The Adaptable Athlete Podcast

Javier Miller-Estrada
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Apr 24, 2024 • 1h 17min

" Provide Your Athletes with a License to Explore" w/ Tom Parry

Tom Parry, head of Butler University's kinesiology department, discusses skill acquisition, coaching strategies, and creating adaptable learning environments in youth sports. He emphasizes the importance of ecological dynamics, effective communication, and principles of play to enhance athlete development and decision-making skills. Parry challenges traditional coaching methods, advocating for a diverse range of sports experiences for optimal growth.
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Apr 10, 2024 • 53min

Transforming Basketball w/ Alex Sarama

Alex Sarama, Director of methodology with London Lyons and works with the Rip City remix, discusses his new book 'Transforming Basketball' and modern coaching techniques. Topics include upgrading traditional drills, adapting systems for new athletes, and the influence of international coaching experiences on his coaching style.
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Mar 20, 2024 • 45min

Ask Emergence Q&A #2

Send us a textOn 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?Will there be an east coast Skill Acquisition Retreat? and of course we dive into many more side tangents and rabbit holes!...Enjoy the show!For the next month, we are offering 25% off our "Origins" and "Reconceptualizing The Warm Up".  This is a great opportunity and only available for a limited time...check it out here!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.comEpisode Resources EcoD in MMA Paper - Open Access!!Link for Origins and our Warm Up Course Credits: Song- "Starstruck" by Freebeats.io Let's Chat!Twitter: @thecoachjavIG: @thecoachjav
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Mar 6, 2024 • 1h 4min

Putting The Tools In The Athlete's Hands w/ Nick Smallridge

Send us a textMy 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 Missouri. In this episode, we discuss how coaches can help make their athletes more adaptable by putting the tools back in their hands.  Enjoy!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.comEpisode Resources Nick on X Nick on Instagram   Credits: Song- "Starstruck" by Freebeats.io Let's Chat!Twitter: @thecoachjavIG: @thecoachjav
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Feb 21, 2024 • 1h 3min

A Masterclass On Affordances w/ Andrew Wilson

Dr. Andrew Wilson discusses affordances in sports and daily life, emphasizing the relationship between perception, action, and cognition. Topics include building learning labs in sports, VR training platforms, intentional design choices, and optimizing skill acquisition through affordances.
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Feb 7, 2024 • 1h 16min

Reconnect to Your Inner Athlete w/ Rafe Kelly

Rafe Kelley, founder of Evolve Move Play and a renowned movement practitioner, discusses the misconception of athleticism, the upcoming Skill Acquisition Retreat, the concept of being a natural athlete, misconceptions in sports preparation, the role of variability in human movement and development, parkour practices, origins and applications of rough and tumble play, and the importance of physicality and play as a form of communication.
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Jan 17, 2024 • 1h 10min

No Two Jumps Are The Same: An Ecological Approach to Jump Training w/ Chris McCosker

Chris McCosker, a sport scientist and lecturer, discusses applying an ecological dynamics approach to jump training. They explore the importance of observing various jumps in sports games, training methods, transitioning from sports science to academia, understanding performance in training design, building adaptable athletes, and the payroll of the Dodgers.
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Jan 3, 2024 • 52min

Ask Emergence Q&A - Answering Your 2024 Coaching Questions

Send us a textWelcome 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 prevention in boxing How to help athletes  deal with identity issues once the consider retirementand of course we dive into many more side tangents and rabbit holes!...Enjoy the show!We are launching a new program called the Skill Acquisition Retreat! We will be hosting the first one in Arizona on February 16th, 2024. ..Click here to learn more!Check out our new free course!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.comEpisode Resources Ep 49- Should Skill Acquisition Really be Called Skill Adaptation?What Exactly is Acquired During Skill Acquisition? Skill Acquisition Retreat Credits: Song- "Starstruck" by Freebeats.io Let's Chat!Twitter: @thecoachjavIG: @thecoachjav
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Dec 13, 2023 • 59min

Exploring Movement Boundaries w/ Yuji Suzuki

Send us a textMy 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 uses an ecological dynamics framework to help his patients explore their movement boundaries.Before I Iet you get to the episode,  I want to tell you about some exciting news with us at Emergence.We are launching a new program called the Skill Acquisition Retreat! We will be hosting the first one in Arizona on February 16th, 2024. ..Click here to learn more!Check out our new free course!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.comEpisode Resources Yuji on Instagram Yuji on XFree Emergence CourseSkill Acquisition Retreat Credits: Song- "Starstruck" by Freebeats.io Let's Chat!Twitter: @thecoachjavIG: @thecoachjav
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Nov 29, 2023 • 1h 12min

Embracing Complexity in Coaching with Stu McMillan and Shawn Myszka

Send us a textMy 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 educationsStu 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 company, Altis has a launched brand new product called Motion IQ which is a cutting edge video based tool to hope coaches better understand the kinematics of movement and apply that data to better inform their coaching The impetus for this episode was based of my knowledge of Stu and Shawn’s friendship or “Bromance” as you might call it.  Shawn and Stu and close friends and I have heard of their legendary, but unrecorded talks for years and I just had to be a part of it.We go into deep dives into many topics including: Coaching through a lens of complex systems Ways to avoid burnout Questions to make you a better coach And much more!Before I Iet you get to the episode,  I want to tell you about some exciting news with us at Emergence.We are launching a new program called the Skill Acquisition Retreat! We will be hosting the first one in Arizona on February 16th, 2024. ..Click here to learn more! Check out our new free course! 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.comEpisode Resources Altis WebsiteStu on XStu on Instagram Shawn on Instagram Shawn's Previous Episodes: Ep 61, Ep 53, Ep 38, Ep 24Free Emergence CourseSkill Acquisition Retreat Credits: Song- "Starstruck" by Freebeats.io Let's Chat!Twitter: @thecoachjavIG: @thecoachjav

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