Reference

Davids, K., Araújo, D., Hristovski, R., Passos, P., & Chow, J. Y. (2012). Ecological dynamics and motor learning design in sport. Skill acquisition in sport: Research, theory and practice, 112-130.

🚀 Article in 3 Sentences

1. The article starts with talking about how skill acquisition is viewed from an Ecological Dynamics perspective. In Eco D good performance is adapting your movements to suit the everchanging environments.
2. Talks about some of the principles of good practice design and how learning takes place from an Ecological Dynamics perspective.
3. Finishes with talking about how we can design learning environments and what we need to make sure we are doing

🤝Impressions

Even though I have quite a good understanding of Ecological Dynamics, there was still so much to take from this chapter. It’s something everyone should go back over every so often to affirm their understanding of some of the key concepts

🎾How Article will influence my coaching

• Think more about how the environment and the athlete are interacting. Use things like video analysis to help you understand
• How are the players exploiting the physical and informational constraints during practice. Sometimes I tend to put pay more attention to physical
• All constraints are interacting and having an influence on each other. The timescales constraints act on is important to look out for
• Make sure that the variability had a purpose. Can you purposeful variability to guide athletes into metastable regions
• Intentional constraints are the most important constraint and the first one we should focus on
• Think more about what stage of learning the player may be at. This then will guide how you are using different principles of practice design
• Put a bit more thought into how you are manipulating certain constraints. What am I specifically trying to do
• Make sure you are taking into account all the different elements of RLD
• Good practice design is practice that is beneficial for certain athlete(s) in a specific context at a specific time
• Do more task analysis to see what the main constraints are