Landscape of Affordances and Designing them into practice

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In a performance environment like swimming or racket sports, there exists a landscape of affordances. Coaches need to design practice tasks that create or allow affordances for athletes to leverage. Athletes may not always choose to utilize these affordances, requiring coaches to adapt their designs. What works for one athlete may not work for another, necessitating flexibility in coaching approaches.

A discussion with Keith Davids, Professor of Motor Learning at Sheffield Hallam University and an innovator of the constraints lead approach to skill acquisition and coaching. We discuss using ecological dynamics to study sports performance, sport analytics, ecological psychology, team coordination and designing for exercise and health promotion.

More information about my guest:

http://www.shu.ac.uk/research/cser/professor-keith-davids

http://www.humankinetics.com/products/all-products/dynamics-of-skill-acquisition

https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415744393

http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Perception-Action-Sport-Davids/dp/041918290X

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K17791XqNqU

More information:

http://perceptionaction.com/

My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)

My ASU Web page

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Twitter: @Shakeywaits