Designing Representative Practice Environments with Tom Parry

In this episode, Alex Sarama is joined by Tom Parry, a professor at Indiana University, Kokomo. Tom shares his insights on applying ecological dynamics in sports coaching, specifically in soccer. He discusses the challenges coaches face when transitioning from traditional coaching methods to an ecological dynamics framework. Tom emphasizes the importance of combining actions and decisions in practice activities and highlights the need to design activities that involve decision-making and game-like scenarios. He encourages coaches to be open to new ideas and to value the expertise of both researchers and practitioners.
Key Takeaways:
03:55 - Seeking Adaptability vs Fundamentals
13:15 - Questioning the validity of current practices
17:55 - Redesigning Principles of Play
23:32 - Deciphering "It Depends..."
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[@JaredRoberts0315]

I've heard several discussions regarding classroom techniques and retrieval practice not being applicable to coaching, and I've read the section in the book. Is this being argued just in the context of movement? Or is this being argued as inapplicable in all contexts (e.g. terminology, scouting reports, etc.)?

[@TransformBball]

Would argue it applies for everything. Of course you can’t overload a player with too much information, but in an ecological approach this would simply be overwhelming a player rather than supposedly “filling up working memory”