The Power Company Climbing Podcast
Sports:Wilderness
Rob Gray is an associate Professor at Arizona State University, host of The Perception & Action Podcast, and a Skill Acquisition Specialist for the Boston Red Sox. He’s been studying movement and publishing research on it for 25 years. In this Part 1 of 2, Kris and Rob discuss the limitations and challenges of using sports science research for coaches and practitioners, as well as some ways both coaches and researchers could do it better.
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How We Learn to Move: A Revolution in the Way We Coach & Practice Sports Skills
Learning to Optimize Movement: Harnessing the Power of the Athlete-Environment Relationship
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CHAPTERS
(0:00) Intro
(1:31) Guest Introduction
(3:20) Topic Explanation
(5:18) Accessibility
(6:13) Impenetrability
(7:33) Generalizability
(8:43) ANNOTATION: Don’t Discount Small Studies
(10:49) Researchers Asking the Wrong Questions
(11:49) How to Make it User Friendly
(19:34) The Value of Case Studies
(22:19) Studies Lack Real World Variables
(24:23) ANNOTATION: Functional Movement Variability
(26:44) What is it We Should be Looking For in Studies?
(30:49) Coaches and Researchers Meeting in the Middle
(33:48) Limitations of Using Studies From Other Sports
(37:24) ANNOTATION: Constraints and Self Organization
(40:54) ”Evidence-Based” Elitism
(43:27) Wrap Up
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Taylor Fragomeni | Routesetting and Coaching from the Female Perspective
A Letter to 2021
BOARD MEETINGS | Stop Blaming the Routesetters
Eric Jerome featuring Max Zolotukhin | What Makes a Great Boulder?
BOARD MEETINGS | Bouldering Tactics: Part 3
BOARD MEETINGS | Bouldering Tactics: Part 2
BOARD MEETINGS | Bouldering Tactics: Part 1
Brandon Belcher | Operating This Body Is Dangerous
Melissa Utomo | Sends and Suffers
Joslynn Corredor | Coaching for a Cause
Paul Piana | Big Walls and Big Dreams
Mario Stanley & Dynell Hunter | Black Joy
BOARD MEETINGS | Worst Advice We Got As Beginners
BOARD MEETINGS | Top 6 Training Myths
Mr. Clipping Chains | Financial Independence
Devin Dabney | Show Up As You Are
Genevive Walker | Black Voices Matter
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BOARD MEETINGS | Granny Shot: Do You Follow the Crowd?
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