Background Performance analysis research in association football has recently cusped a
paradigmatic shift in the way tactical behaviours are studied. Based on insights from system …

Expert decision-making can be directly assessed, if sport action is understood as an
expression of embedded and embodied cognition. Here, we discuss evidence for this claim …

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 …

ABSTRACT Background The Constraints-Led Approach (CLA) has emerged as a viable
pedagogical option for teachers and coaches in the sport and physical education. The …

For the last 25 years, a constraints-based framework has helped to inform the way that many
sport scientists seek to understand performance, learning design and the development of …

Over two decades ago, and raised theoretical concerns associated with traditional,
reductionist, and mechanistic perspectives of movement coordination and skill acquisition …

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

Ecological Psychology is an embodied, situated, and non-representational approach
pioneered by JJ Gibson and EJ Gibson. This theory aims to offer a third way beyond …

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 …

Internationally, governments, health and exercise practitioners are struggling with the threat
posed by physical inactivity leading to worsening outcomes in health and life expectancy …