Kyle Dupic
@kyledupic
Wartburg baseball co-pitching coach. CSAS (Certified Skill Acquisition Specialist) from @EMERGENTMVMT. Certified @ArmCarecom Specialist/Biomechanist.
Our bodies seem to intuitively know that variability will also keep us safe. Rather than stressing the same things over and over, variability creates a robustness, thus helping expose the body to whatever it may encounter in the performance environment.
More advanced performers are more perceptually attuned. So when you see that pro athlete add some bat speed or pitch velocity, it isn't accurate to say that is what made them better. It likely opened a door for them to connect in more ways to the rich landscape of affordances.
I’m not sure enough people ask the question “when is it enough?” in relation to climbing the ladder, getting a promotion, accepting a position at a more “prestigious” organization. What is it you’re really chasing and will that position actually fulfill what you’re longing for?
What a great day for @EdCoBaseball to improve our craft. Thank you to @WartburgBB for sending @kyledupic and @Hdesti13 to work with our 3-6th graders this morning and 7-12 this afternoon. It was a great day of learning with takeaways for all!
Love this. As an S&C coach for several years, I didn’t respect why movement emerged in the performer-environment relationship. I honestly think I was scared to admit that maybe my athletes FreeLap times didn’t actually mean all that much when an athlete got into the real game.…
Development of capacity should never stray too far from the context necessary to transfer to sport. Outfielders need to be able to run really fast. They also need to be able to track something in the air while running at top speed. Training both at once is probably a good idea.
“It also re-invigorates me this morning on why we need adaptability instead of repeatability.” Yet most practices and drills are the polar opposite. Coaches at youth/hs lack basic knowledge of adaptability. This is regarding all sports.
"Our degrees of freedom are able to adjust contribution thereby allowing for the same output in different (variable) ways." This was a note I made in one of my old notebooks while reading an article. It was commenting on the idea of physiological constraints (in this example,…
“And it again reminds me why chasing a certain biomechanical "solution" probably isn't the best use of our athletes time. At the very least, it disregards the problem the athlete is embedded in, which will shape and form the coordination patterns emerging. In addition, it…
"Our degrees of freedom are able to adjust contribution thereby allowing for the same output in different (variable) ways." This was a note I made in one of my old notebooks while reading an article. It was commenting on the idea of physiological constraints (in this example,…
"Our degrees of freedom are able to adjust contribution thereby allowing for the same output in different (variable) ways." This was a note I made in one of my old notebooks while reading an article. It was commenting on the idea of physiological constraints (in this example,…
The next time you are thinking about pitching mechanics, make sure the scale of analysis is the performer-ENVIRONMENT relationship. #widenyourgaze
Back on 6/28, @kyledupic successfully completed his in-person portions of the Certified Skill Acquisition Specialist testing & did so with flying colors! I was thoroughly impressed with how he was able to flex his muscle across various skill acquisition related contexts.…
A little over a week ago I had the privilege of being a part of the initial group to test to become a Certified Skill Acquisition Specialist. I’m pleased to announce that I passed! It was unquestionably the hardest thing I’ve prepared for. Kudos to the team at @EMERGENTMVMT for…
A little over a week ago I had the privilege of being a part of the initial group to test to become a Certified Skill Acquisition Specialist. I’m pleased to announce that I passed! It was unquestionably the hardest thing I’ve prepared for. Kudos to the team at @EMERGENTMVMT for…
Environmental constraint 😂
A lightning induced balk brought home a run in this MiLB game!
It’s almost like our youth have prepared in environments where they are mostly unopposed. 🤔 researchgate.net/publication/38…
What’s most fascinating to me coaching young people is so many forget there are others playing with them. Truly, they become so focused on their task, they become blind to the other humans playing among them. #AllSports
The constraints led approach isn’t about leading the athlete to the movement you want. It helps shape the information the athlete is connecting to, creating powerful information-movement couplings that channel the movement behavior that emerges. When you use constraints to try…
Variability allows us to interact dynamically with our ever-changing environment. This is key in building adaptability in our athletes.
In chapter 2 of Rob Gray's How We Learn to Move, he highlights how variability is built into the very fabric of our biological systems. Rather than trying to get rid of it, we can harness it for good to train athletes.
