Keith Davids

He has spent over 30 years teaching and researching in England, New Zealand, and Australia, and he's one of the most respected names when it comes to CLA and modern skill acquisition.

He's worked alongside Keith Davids, consulted with teams like the Black Caps, Cricket Australia, and the Canadian Women's National Football Team, and he has co-founded the Constraints Collective.

This episode is Ian telling you his own story in his own words, straight from backyard cricket to where he's at now with his distinguished career.

We're showing it to give you a direct look at how a pioneer in this field built his career over many, many years and got to this level.

It's my pleasure to, um, accept this current award from Emergence, uh, from the guys at Emergence.

Um, incredibly honored, um, and very surprised to be honest, um, to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award in Movement and Skill Acquisition.

Um, given that previous winners were Keith Davids, Stuart Araujo, and, um, Carl Newell, uh, I didn't ever see myself as being in that, [laughs] that league, and I know I'm not.

Um, so y- yeah, delighted to accept the award, um, and, um, and thanks to the guys for, for, for awarding it to me.

Some of them are good friends.

And one of them, Keith Davids, went on to become my supervisor for my PhD in the end.

So I'm also a qualified coach.

So I went through that whole rigmarole, whatever you want to call it, of the official qualifications.

Now, like I mean, as it progressed, this happened a long time ago, I I started realizing that.

Well, actually, that's quite problematic in development.

If you're making things too predictable because then you're focusing players learning or their attention to very narrow opportunities for action as opposed to opening up so i started then going on this journey and this was really helping with keith davidson i know you want to speak about a very ecological approach that how can we work with this where we can allow players to explore so i would say becoming a recovered expert and exploration That's it.

So players, when I started, I didn't give the opportunities for players to explore, young players to explore as much as I probably should have.

Today's episode is a little different.

I'm joined by two genuine titans of the skill acquisition world, Professor Keith Davids and Professor Ian Renshaw.

Together, Keith and Ian have had an enormous influence on how coaches think about learning, practice design, and the relationship between the athlete and their environment.

They also host The Constraints Collective, a learning platform and podcast exploring ecological dynamics and the constraints that approach.

You know, the constraint-led approach, very simply, it has four main principles.

You know, you can actually, you know, read about this, you know, Keith Davids, Ian Renshaw, they have a book, The Constraint-Led Approach.

Awesome book.

Go read it.