Carolina Panthers Return to Play Coordinator + S&C Round Earther 🐒🦍🚶🏽
Charlotte, NC
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All the energy we spend fearing that we’ll make it worse is energy not spent making it better - Chris Hadfield 🇨🇦
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Sam Presti explains why strong systems matter through both success and adversity.
“They’re there for two reasons. One, to keep us humble when things are going well, and they’re also there to keep us stable when things are not going well.”
Sustaining a high level of performance requires routines and processes that keep you accountable when success makes it easy to relax and steady when circumstances give you a reason to panic.
Both are easier when those systems are already in place.
🎥: Oklahoma City Thunder
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The OODA loop is a fantastic decision making framework, but it has some inaccuracies, specifically: the brain is not a computer, skills are not like pre-planned programs, and sporting skill is not the conscious, top down phenomenon we think it is.
In this @learntotackle video, I'll explain why skill is actually an emergent, self-organized relationship between athlete, task, and environment, and what this means for you and how you coach skills like the tackle.
🏈 Wrestling for Football programming drops 1st December. Subscribe to this channel for a special discount when it drops.
KEY LEARNING POINTS
- The brain isn’t a computer. We can’t process all perceptual information, run simulations, and control every degree of freedom in a tackle.
- Skills aren’t programs we select and “push play” on. Strategies overlap, scenarios are endless, and we have to cope with novel situations.
- Elite decision-making is largely autonomous, not a top-down, conscious process.
- Ecological dynamics frames skills as self-organized, emergent patterns that arise from interacting with the environment.
-Athletes are pushed toward one affordance over others by the interaction of individual, task, and environmental constraints.
-Context and individuality matter. One technique or system can’t fit every athlete, position, and situation.
- Practical approach: build breadth of movement options, nudge athletes toward better options with carefully designed scenarios, then use repetition and depth to refine timing, coordination, and adaptability. Let the environment provide the feedback.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Recap: the OODA loop and tackling
1:23 Why the OODA loop has problems
1:34 Problem 1: The brain is not a computer
2:07 Problem 2: Skills aren’t computer programs
2:43 Problem 3: Skill isn’t a top-down conscious process
3:12 Ecological dynamics: a better lens
3:45 What “self-organized” means
4:41 Affordances and constraints
5:04 Example: how a cornerback decides how to tackle
6:49 Why context and individuality matter
7:47 What this means for coaching tackling
8:25 Wrap-up and what’s next
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Nature is associated with quieter stress and rumination brain circuits.
Your brain is not broken, it is overstimulated.
Sprinting faster than 90% shows different spatiotemporal patterns, and joint kinematics.
The best way to improve running fast is running fast.
🆕"Hip-extension angular velocity emerged as a consistent contributor to SPR velocity across intensities, underscoring its central role in SPR performance"
➡️ The role of HM & Gluteus Max in SPR kinematics ⚽️
👉 R. van den Tillaar 2026 🇳🇴
📂 Open Access: mdpi.com/2673-7078/6/3/74
We don't need to correct movement. We need to expand it. Corrective exercise is valuable when it adds options to an athlete's repertoire of movement solutions. We should think in terms of options not corrections.
“Behavior is a cause of behavior”
The more you do something, the more likely you are to keep doing it
An internal focus of attention is associated with choking, even in expert athletes. Excessive self-consciousness tends to cause paralysis by analysis and the freezing of degrees of freedom.
@NickWinkelman has discussed how an expert choking shows movement similarities to a novice learning.
Practicing a skill under fatigue can slow learning over the next two sessions, even once the fatigue is gone. It takes a fatigued group two sessions to reach 68% of the level a non-fatigued group reaches after a single session.
An external focus of attention allows the body to naturally self-organize, unconstrained by the interference caused by conscious attempts to control specific limbs, joints and muscles.
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Motor skills are best learned fresh, not fatigued. 🤸♀️
Technique → strength → fatigue.
Don’t do 50 burpees before teaching a back handspring.
elifesciences.org/articles/4…
The job of a coach is to help arrange optimal learning conditions. The right movements deliver the right information at the right time.
Research shows that fear of movement related to bending or twisting can predict excessive core bracing, reduced postural variability, and bad outcomes in chronic pain.
"If you need to move into an end range of motion with speed, power, balance, and under load? Then you need to start challenging your body to do exactly those things, starting with the easiest and least threatening movements (static, stable, slow, low force), and then gradually progressing the level of the challenge (dynamic, unstable, fast, with high force)."
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This all depends on how you define a “good practice.”
Often times we judge practice by how much we got right.
However, rehearsal practice often leads athletes down a path of feeling good during the week, but without the necessary skills/processing for the game.
Most athletes remember times in their career where the mess up practice reps, but get it right in the game. (Malcolm Butler on the goal line in the Super Bowl)
Practice should be for finding solutions to problems that might arise in the game.
Teams that grade practice by how well rehearsed they are will feel good coming off the field, but likely haven’t used the time to develop new skills and pattern recognition needed for the game.
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The longer I coach, the more I realize that the secret to being a great coach isn't designing cutting edge training, it's the ability to repeatedly and consistently avoid doing dumb stuff.
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Research Alert!
Very useful and clear outline on raising the game with true hamstring injury reduction. Don't fall prey to the watered-down copycats-stay with the leaders of the field.
The @zentrumsport work is timeless.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
