Your philosophical position is most obvious in how you produce, understand and treat data. One of the less obviously places it comes across is usually in a bland and hackneyed statement of 'Philosophical Position'. Research philosophy is practical and pragmatic more than it is explicable in prose.

A bi-annual listen for me at this stage. open.spotify.com/episode/2Xl9...

#227 Prof Chris Cushion, Prof Stephen Harvey & Dr Ed Cope - A Flexible Approach to Coaching

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A few thoughts. Distinguishing the epistemological basis of skill acquisition with the pedagogical basis to facilitate learning in skill acquisition. www.skilledathleticism.com/post/coach-l...

(Coach) Learning about (skill) learning: epistemology versus pedagogy

My PhD work is centered on the role of a skill acquisition specialist. There is much to be said about the role, but this post will focus on two different intentions of skill acquisition specialist – f...

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Thank you @danabrahamspsych.bsky.social for the invitation to chat all things #SkillAcquisition on #TheSportPsychShow over the summer: t.co/xWC7NcFzAL Our discussion centred on the Guide to Skill Acquisition within Gaelic Games (hopefully stimulating whatever your sport): t.co/xG5tRyGNDX

A stitch in time saves nine! Thanks to @drcrmatthews.bsky.social for the gift as I prepare to dive into the deep end with my PhD. “The unexamined life isn’t worth living.”

Someone who supports my work has paid for 3 books for me to give away! I'll double that - so I have *six* to give away!!! To enter just repost & comment below. I'll announce the winners on friday (1st Aug). Please do share, thanks. 🙏🤟🍻 More info on the book here - www.routledge.com/Doing-Good-S....

A few thoughts on supporting coaches with constraints-based coaching. www.skilledathleticism.com/post/introdu...

Introduction to coaching (Gaelic Games)

Recently I have gotten the opportunity to deliver and co-deliver the Introduction to Gaelic Games (ICGG) coaching course in Townsville and Tasmania. The course is aimed to support coaches of all ages ...

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Where are we now? the illusion of professionalism.Systems don’t rise to the level of their goals, they fall to the level of their design.We must invest where it's needed most,in the changing contexts of the ‘real world’ where learning and performance happen footblogball.wordpress.com/2025/05/14/w...

Where are we now? (the illusion of professionalism)

Systems don’t rise to the level of their goals, they fall to the level of their design. We must invest where it’s needed most, out in the changing contexts, situations, and constraints of the…

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Checking the conference program to see what I said the title of my talk would be so I can make the talk, like a boss.

Send this to an 'ego-manic prof', I dare ya 👹💩🙈

Love listening to Harrington: “when you end up on your arse you’re always wrong!” open.spotify.com/episode/4Xun...

Rory McIlroy's Masterpiece | Padraig Harrington breaks down Augusta’s greatest Sunday

Indo Sport · Episode

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The Seductive Myth of Discovery Learning The idea that children learn better if they discover something themselves is attractive for many different reasons despite the fact that empirical research tells a very different story. #EduSky www.kirschnered.nl/2025/03/30/t...

The Seductive Appeal of Discovery Learning - kirschner-ED

The idea that children learn better if they discover something themselves is attractive for many different reasons, in spite of the fact that empirical research tells a different story.

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Games & drills, “contemporary” & “traditional”, internal & external. It’s not this or that, but when and where (and why). A non-versus approach to skill acquisition. www.skilledathleticism.com/post/a-non-v...

A non-versus approach to skill acquisition

Reflections on my experiencesAs a Gaelic games development officer in Hong Kong schools, when coaching kids the soloing skill (kick to yourself) in Gaelic football, I remember asking kids to stand in ...

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open.spotify.com/episode/0YjG... Powerful stuff. Job’s the man.

Dr Job Fransen - Rethinking Skill Acquisition: Science, Bias, and Coaching Truths

The Adaptive Coach · Episode

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Great minds don’t think alike. They challenge each other to think differently. The people who teach you the most are the ones who share your principles but not your thought processes. Converging values draw you to similar questions. Diverging views introduce you to new answers.

Attended the ASAN conference last week and had a great time, but left with more questions than answers. I wrote about one such question. www.skilledathleticism.com/post/philoso...

Philosophy for skill acquisition

BlueSky: @jcassidysport.bsky.socialI attended the Australasian Skill Acquisition Network (ASAN) conference in Southern Cross University in the Gold Coast this week. I really enjoyed the diversity of insights, the critical discussions, and the opportunity to connect with people who I have only connected with online previously. I was particularly impressed with the supportive nature of the discussions and great credit must go to Kyle Bennett and William McCalman who organised, and all presenters a

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A few basketball training tasks. Dodgy camerawork, and only 3 players, but still an opportunity to challenge player decision making.

If you are new to open research and are looking for a place to start, including examples from Sport and Exercise Science, take a look at the UKRN Open Research across disciplines resource...

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The 5th edition of Open Research across disciplines is out. We list case studies of Open Research and resources per discipline: doi.org/10.31219/osf... Now also as UKRN webpages: www.ukrn.org/2024/11/27/u... @surreypsychology.bsky.social with @camillakgilmore.bsky.social & @priyasilverstein.com

Perfect practice makes perfect? Not so. The effortful pursuit of perfect results in an appropriately representative environment designed to make attaining such results suitably challenging makes perfect. But don't forget to just play around too.

“There must be a desired end zone (not necessarily a specific end point), even if that end zone is not a specified technique?” #sportcoaching www.skilledathleticism.com/post/clarity

CLArity

(The most creative blog post title I have ever come up with!)An interesting paper was published a couple of weeks ago, entitled “Adding texture to the art of constraints-led coaching: a request for mo...

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Pre-season starting for teams this week, meaning some good conversations with coaches over the last few weeks. Some ideas we spoke about, which may be useful: Drills v Games: t.co/ZM1TV1KCiN