Archive for the ‘Motor Control’ Category

Hierarchy of Success – Approach

Continuing on the Hierarchy of Success series, now I want to move on to Approach.  In the big scheme, this is the second level as we build our coaching.  As you follow coaching “experts” on the internet, you’ll likely find that far too much of coaching discussions are centered around Execution and then Tactics.  Try finding [...]

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The Elephant in the Room: Motor Control Theory

Biomechanics has been criticized at times by coaches and others because all too often, biomechanics research is done through a strict lens of observation. It’s describes for us what is happening, but not why. To many a coach and athlete, they want to know about the why so they can do something about it for [...]

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Motor Control Theory

I spoke yesterday at the NSCA Sport Specific Conference on Sprint Technique and its relevance to teamsports. One of the key topics for this which I bought up was motor control theory. It generated the most questions after the session and Dynamic Systems Theory was new to most. If we step back and look at [...]

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