The acquisition of soccer skills is fundamental to our enjoyment of the game and is essential
to the attainment of expertise. Players spend most of their time in practice with the intention …

Performance analysis is a subdiscipline of sports sciences and one-approach, notational
analysis, has been used to objectively audit and describe behaviours of performers during …

Dynamics of Skill Acquisition, Second Edition, provides an analysis of the processes
underlying human skill acquisition. As the first text to outline the multidisciplinary ecological …

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this position paper is to consider the decision-making process as
an integral part of goal-directed behaviour influenced by functional constraints at the scale of …

Nonlinear Pedagogy is a powerful paradigm for understanding human movement and for
designing effective teaching, coaching and training programmes in sport, exercise and …

The theory of affordances, a conceptual pillar of the ecological approach to perception and
action, has the potential to become a guiding principle for research on perception and action …

Background: In order to design appropriate environments for performance and learning of
movement skills, physical educators need a sound theoretical model of the learner and of …

Individual players act as a coherent unit during team sports performance, forming a team
synergy. A synergy is a collective property of a task-specific organization of individuals, such …

This paper proposes how ecological dynamics, a theory focusing on the performer-
environment relationship, provides a basis for understanding skill acquisition in sport. From …

In physical education, the Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) pedagogical strategy
has attracted significant attention from theoreticians and educators for allowing the …