What Descartes and a puppy can teach us about the youth sport experience - a conversation with Sam Jarman

Sam Jarman is back and this time he is really challenging some of my conceptions of what we understand to be the reality of the youth sport experience. In this episode we delve into philosophical psychology as we explore whether what we value in sport is actually a product of social and cultural constructs which restrict us from genuinely exploring the nature of our experiences and limiting our abilities to tap into genuine human well-being through play, creativity and exploration.

This is a mind bender, and you will hear me trying to get my head around some of the ideas and try and bring them to life through relevance to my own experience.

Have fun!!

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Leaving behind "mushrooms of alternative pedagogy" - a second conversation with Craig Gunn

Gunny is back with his unique brand of effervescent coaching conversation. As always, Gunny is exploring all things engagement and coach development. In this conversation we explore why Gunny feels that coaches should embrace 'Maslow before Bloom' in a reference to meeting an athlete's needs before learning can occur. We also discuss how indigenous games can be used to develop skills and how traditional game forms have been lost from the youth sports experience.

It is a conversation full of 'Gunny Gold Nuggets and one not to be missed.

If you want to come and learn with Gunny and myself while he is over in the UK then click on this link to register.

Other links

Gunny's Youtube Channel 'Gunn Engagement'

Gunny's website

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Keep your eye on the ball (or don't...it's up to you) - a conversation with Ben Franks

Ben Franks is a researcher in skill acquisition at the University Campus in Football Business (UCFB) based at Wembley in London and he is also a goalkeeper coach. His research studied visual search behaviour in elite goalkeepers and sought to explore how they use their eyes to help them with anticipatory decision making.

This episode is made of 2 halves. The first half delves into the research and explores a range of challenging topics in ecological dynamics. The second half is more practical where we explore the implications of this research for coaches and how we can better create learning environments that help players with decision making and anticipation.

Hope you enjoy

Ben blogs at https://thedevelopmentpathway.wordpress.com/

He can be found 'rattling cages' on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ben__franks1