My 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 was a guest on this show in episode 69, which you can listen to here.

This time Yuji and I discuss the blog post he wrote for Emergence titled "The Ecological Dynamics of Musculoskeletal Rehab"

In this episode we unpack and expand on some of the concepts that Yuji touches in in his blog post!

One quick note before we get started, you may have seen on social media that we at Emergence have announced the dates for the 2024 Sport Movement Skill Conference. This is a hybrid online and in person event and is my favorite event of the year. You have the option of attending for the lectures, the in person coaching or both. It’s completely up to you

Right now, we are offering our early bird pricing so I would highly suggest you mark tour calendar for October 4th and 5th and take advantage of this sale!

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.com

Episode Resources

• Yuji's Instagram
• Yuji on X
• Ep 69 with Yuji
• 2024 SMSC

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Hey everyone, welcome to today's show!

On this episode, we are going to be doing a deep dive on practice design! This is a topic many of you are very interested in and passionate about so I figured we would shine a light on it.

To do this, I've compiled some clips from some of my amazing guests that will give you their insights on practice design. In addition to that, I will be giving my input on each clip to hopefully guide you towards your own takeaways.

I hope you enjoy the show!

One quick note before we get started, you may have seen on social media that we at Emergence have announced the dates for the 2024 Sport Movement Skill Conference. This is a hybrid online and in person event and is my favorite event of the year. You have the option of attending for the lectures, the in person coaching or both. It’s completely up to you

Right now, we are offering our early bird pricing so I would highly suggest you mark tour calendar for October 4th and 5th and take advantage of this sale!

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.com

Episode Resources

• Ep - "Provide Your Athletes with a License to Explore" w/ Tom Parry
• Ep -"A Masterclass on Affordances" w/ Andrew Wilson
• Ep- "Putting the Tools in the Athlete's Hands" w/ Nick Smallridge

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My guest for today’s episode is Dr. Martina Navarro. Martina is a native of Brazil and a senior lecture at the university of Portsmouth in the UK. She received her undergrad from the university of São Paulo in Brazil and her PhD from São Paulo and the university of Amsterdam in Netherlands.

Her PhD focused on effects of strategies and high levels of stress and anxiety and human cognition and motor control

She has also done post doctorate work in , Switzerland was awarded the excellence, doctoral research fellowship by the Swiss government and subsequently joined the Institute of sports science at the university of Bern

She is also the UK head of the athletic skills model a framework that offers an alternative perspective to talent development theories in the form of holistic broad-based movement education. More on this later.

Martina was also a high-level Taekwondo practitioner and competed at the Olympic level. Both her and I share a background in Taekwondo admittedly she competed at a much higher level than I did.

In this conversation, we do touch on her background and Taekwondo, but we also go into what the athletic skills model is, and how coaches can apply some of their frameworks to training and practice,

Athletes are often told to spend more and more hours training in their sport, but the athletic skills model provides a different way of looking at long-term athletic development. Emphasizing a variety of movements and movement experiences. We get into all this and so much more.

One quick note before we get started, you may have seen on social media that we had emergence have announced the dates for the 2024 Sport Movement Skill Conference. This is a hybrid online and in person event and is my favorite event of the year. You have the option of attending for the lectures, the in person coaching or both. It’s completely up to you

Right now, we are offering our early bird pricing so I would highly suggest you mark tour calendar for October 4th and 5th and take advantage of this sale!

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.com

Episode Resources

• Martina on X
• Athletic Skills Model Website
• Martina's University Profile
• Martina on Research Gate

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Hey, what’s up everybody welcome to adaptable podcast powered by emergence. I’m your host Coach Jav and thank you so much for joining me today.

My guess today is Ben Franks Ben Franks is a lecturer in applied coaching science at Oxford Brookes University in the UK. Primarily his work is focused on the visual control of movement in sport during interceptive actions. Ben has also coached in numerous settings in soccer from amateur to professional levels

Speaking of his work, Ben has appeared on this podcast two times previously and on Episode 32 where we discussed his research paper on visual gaze in goal keepers. Overall, Ben is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to soccer related or in regards to skill acquisition.

In this episode, we discuss Ben’s recent collaboration with us over emergence with the launch of his new course called the ecological dynamics of soccer. This course helps coaches link the theory to direct application of practice design and a modern approach to skill acquisition.

Having gone through much of the course myself, I can tell you that it is excellent, and I believe there is value for coaches, even if you do not work directly with soccer players.

In addition to that, Ben and I have a discussion on practice design, including how coaches can purposely manipulate constraints to influence athlete behavior

Ben’s course is now available for purchase. I will link to all of that in the show notes and I highly encourage you to check it out. Now on my conversation with Ben Franks .

Episode Resources

• The Ecological Dynamics of Soccer Course
• Ben on X
• Episode 32 with Ben
• Episode 57 with Ben and Will Roberts

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My guest today is Jason Watson . Who is Jason? Jason is the head women’s volleyball coach at the university Arkansas women’s volleyball. Prior to that he had successful head coaching stance at my alma mater Arizona State and BYU.

What’s unique about Jason is that he is a program builder. He took over a program in Arkansas. That is a major conference in the SEC and had not had a lot of historical success and since he took over the program in 2016 he has since taken them to new Heights, including making the NCAA tournament 8 times.

In his previous stops at ASU and BYU, he also took programs not known for their success and helped elevate them. Like I said Jason has a knack for building programs.

He does this not subscribing to traditional practice method where athletes do isolated drills, and then hope that they can put it together a scrimmage or live action, he instead helps put his athletes in game like situations where they could adapt their skills and become better volleyball players. You can attribute a lot of his success to his practice structure.

I really enjoyed this conversation with Jason, we talk about his coaching journey and practice design from when he started, to what it is today!

Before I let you get to the episode, I wanted to let you know that we have a brand new course called the Ecological Dynamics of Soccer, which is currently on sale and available for purchase. It’s our good friend and friend of the podcast Ben Franks. B en is a wicked smart dude and always delivers so be sure to check that out. I’ll put the in the show notes.

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.com

Episode Resources

• Jason's staff page at Arkansas
• Jason on X
• The Ecological Dynamics of Soccer Course

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Credits: Song- "Starstruck" by Freebeats.io

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My guest for today's episode is Tom Parry!

Tom is the head of the kinesiology department at Butler University and received his PhD from Indiana University.

His research interests are centered on the application of kinesiology theory and concepts to practitioner-based settings such as therapy, coaching and strength & conditioning. His expertise is in skill acquisition, sport psychology and coaching and regularly publishes research in these areas

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.com

In addition to that, Tom is also a youth soccer coach with the Indiana Fire Academy

Just a reminder that our 2023 and 2022 recorded Sports Movement Skill Conference videos are 50% off through 4/26. Check the out here!

In addition that we will be hosting our next Movement Meet Up on 5/11 which is free and open to the public. Send us a DM on X if you're interested.

Episode Resources

• Tom on X
• Kestrel Psych
• Tom's Butler University page

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Credits: Song- "Starstruck" by Freebeats.io

Let's Chat!
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IG: @thecoachjav

On today’s episode, I’m joined by Alex Sarama! Alex is a 2x guest on the show and appeared on the podcast way back in Episode 33!

Since that episode, Alex’s life has changed quite a bit. he found it a company called Transforming Basketball, which is seeking to change the way that basketball is coached. He is also the Director of methodology with London Lyons in England, and also works with the Rip City remix, the G league affiliate team for the Portland, Trailblazers of the NBA.

On top of all of that, Alex has a brand new book that just dropped on April 9 called Transforming Basketball, Where he takes coaches through a modern approach, to skill acquisition, and how to apply it to basketball.

In this conversation, we talk about many useful topics for coaches, including:

• How to upgrade traditional basketball drills into a live movement activities,
• How to adjust your system, or principles of play to new athletes
• How Alex’s experience is experience, coaching in different settings across the world, has shaped his coaching lens
  
  And so many other valuable topics!

One last note on the book, my teammates at emergence Tyler , Urby, and Shawn Myszca wrote a chapter in Alex‘s new book and Alex was nice enough to put this podcast as an education resource for the readers.. so even more reason to buy the book!

Just a reminder that we have two courses on sale on the Emergence website. Origins which is our youth athlete course and includes over 30 videos of activities and Reconceptualizing the Warm Up are all on sale for a limited time.

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.com

Episode Resources

• Transforming Basketball Book
• Transforming Basketball Website
• Alex on X
• Alex on IG

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On 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.com

Episode Resources

• EcoD in MMA Paper - Open Access!!
• Link for Origins and our Warm Up Course

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