Salient Performance

Unopposed indy drills aren't helping you and endless reps on bags, sleds and donuts won't transfer to problem solving or decision making on game day. Why? We need direct perception of the outside world to orient ourselves and coordinate our actions in response to, specifically Tau or the rate at which time gaps or open or close. Using this invariant, unchanging variable we can accurately anticipate time to contact without need for inference or conscious processing. 🔑 Key Learning Points - Why muscle memory and "drilling the fundamentals" don't make sense in a highly variable, information rich environment. -The limits of the OODA loop and conscious processing in sport. -Direct perception: how invariant information means orientation is contained within perception itself. - What is tau, and how does it relate to action gaps -Why perception and action MUST be trained together -Why representative, game-like sensory information and both septh and breadth in training builds robust tacklers -How action gaps and affordances differ for every athlete, and why “if A, then B” coaching doesn’t reflect reality -Why direct perception isn't unique to sight and why “feel” (balance, pressure and muscular tension) takes over after the initial collision ⏱️ Chapters Intro: Perception and Decision-Making in Tackling Why Muscle Memory and Drilling Fundamentals Fall Short The Problem with the OODA Loop Information Overload and Tackle Variability Direct Perception (J.J. Gibson) What the Optic Array Tells Us Why Time Matters: Introducing Tau Coaching Implications of Tau #1: Train Perception and Action Together #2: Specifying Information and Representative Training #3: Depth and Breadth of Training #4: Action Gaps and Affordances #5: Beyond Sight: Learning to Feel Resources and Wrap-Up 🏈 Wrestling for Football programming drops 1st December. Subscribe to this channel for a special discount when it drops. ▶️ Subscribe to @learntotackle so you don’t miss the next video in the series. 📚 Recommended: @ShakeyWaits YouTube and his books. If this helped, like the video and share it with another football coach who’d benefit. #LearnToTackle #FootballCoaching #TacklingTechnique #AmericanFootball #DirectPerception #SkillAcquisition #MotorLearning #FootballTraining #TackleTraining #CoachingEducation #WrestlingForFootball

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 ▶️ Subscribe and switch on notifications so you don’t miss the next video in the series. Head over to the @learntotackle YT for the full course playlist. #LearnToTackle #TacklingTechnique #FootballCoaching #CoachingFootball #AmericanFootball #SkillAcquisition #EcologicalDynamics #OODALoop #TackleTraining #FootballTraining #DefensiveCoaching #SportsCoaching