Richard Shuttleworth Phd
@skillacq
Coaching Development, Skill Acquisition Specialist | AIS RFU SportSG | Freelance
Elite Soccer Player Psychological Profiling (Benetti et al,2025) • Response letter (below) Cautions over Research Claims & Implications for TID Researchers & Practitioners • rigour needed using Multifactorial, Longitudinal, Intervention & Control designs • Better Coaching
Timely Reminder of How Coaches FEEL they Gain Coaching Knowledge • This aging ‘In-House’ evaluation Needs Updating • However, although 15+yrs old our Coach Education Development arguably struggles to Reflect Perceived Learning Needs • A Good idea is to Intermittently Evaluate…
Chari is Excellent @ Coaching New Skills ie Facilitating Learning of • C Skip • She effectively Explains mastering *Coordination into Cadence into Dynamic* • Personifies Control of Coordination into Dynamic Skill • Of the Majority of HP Olympic & WC Coaches I’ve supported…
C-Skip tutorial! ✨ Running season is in full swing and the c-skip is one of my favorite dynamic movements that helps with coordination and stretching! 🙌 How is your c-skip? 🙈 Let me know if you include it in your warm up! If not, give it a try before your next workout and…
This montage by James Nelson-Joyce is brilliant !!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
The myth of optimality in human movement science researchgate.net/publication/39…
Cryuff on youth football. Practice design shouldn’t promote behavioral conditioning to impose a ‘game model’, instead putting players in a constant state of problem solving. Technique should be diverse in nature, representative of the environment & not practiced in isolation
No Panic in Coach Voice • Back to Calm so can Hear & Listen • Let it (Skill) Come to You, Don’t Force it • See it, Sight Target, Earn it • 3F’s Footwork-Fend-FreeAir🫸🏼🏉
One of the four main buckets of constraints you can place on the throw is changing the mass of the implement. One of the foundational principles of variably loaded ballistic work is that it provides varied movement strategies due to the difference in the implements inertia ⬇️…
Game Skill Emergence 🤍 Smooth Transfer of Power • Self-Organising Teams • Player Self-Selection • No Bibs for Scanning • Values & Rule Based Playing Culture • Player Driven Structures • Self Regulated & Empowering • Self-Guided Feedback🫸🏼Coach🫷🏼
Standing the test of Time
Seminal Talk by Rod Thorpe in 90's discussing skill development & motor learning principles. Combining theory into practice. True scholar.
Skill • Going Beyond the Past • Acting to the Future • Opportunity Readiness • Prof Duarte Araújo illustrating Skilled Behaviour @ High Performance Coach & Science Engagement in Asia
Constraining thru Assistance • Accelerating Movement Pattern Acquisition • Negating Core Strength as Rate Limiter • Nonlinear Learning ED (E.Thelen 84)
When Shot Preparation Phase becomes the Shot • Skill of Re-Organising Series of Actions for Increasing Effectivity • Action Learning
Kevin Bowring • Former Welsh National Coach • Head of Prof Coaching England Rugby • Coaching Mentor to Many Good People around the World • my mentor friend has passed away R.I.P. • Please listen to his Inspiring Final Interview • Caring for People menbehindsport.com/podcasts/untap…
🚨Every coach should listen to Nick Saban talk about transformational coaching. ⁉️Do you care about your players for your benefit or their benefit?
George Ford on Importance of Feel & Information • * Player-Coach Co-Problem Solving * Skill of Practicing Real Time Problem Movement Solutions * Over Reliance on Delayed (Mon morn) Augmented Information.. could have should have! * Coach Confidence in Players to Seek Information
🗣️ “I’ve just fallen into the trap of over-analysing my own game, over-analysing the opposition, and then you come on a Saturday and you’ve got all these things in your mind." 👇 The playmaker opened up on his dip in form. planetrugby.com/news/i-go-into…
“Perfection is impossible.” Every coach and athlete needs to hear this from Roger Federer!
Role of (Grand)Parent as Support in Childs Learning Process • Learned Performance
Unfreezing the ‘Reduced’ Degrees of Freedom Problem • Role of Practice to Adapt Movement Organisation to Realise a Never Previously Produced Movement Coordination Pattern (JMB Newell & Liu 2021) • Coach Early Skill Learning Search of Task Related Variables 4 Movement Emergence