Improving "impoverished practice environments" - Ian Renshaw, Peter Arnott and Graeme McDowall

Peter Arnott and Greame McDowell run 'Golf on the Edge of Chaos' a unique coach development programme that allows golf coaches to learn and explore the applications of non linear pedagogy and the constraints led approach in golf. Greame also founded 'Golf on the Edge of Chaos' a unique coach development programme

Ian Renshaw is a regular podcast guest and is a researcher and renowned author specialising in the constraints led approach based at QUT in Australia.

They have just published a new book to demonstrate how their practice is driven and inspired by their alignment to a CLA, 'A Constraints-Led Approach to Golf Coaching' includes case studies and examples of how constraints are manipulated to induce adaption in the technical, tactical (or put in golf terms, course management), physiological, and psychological development mechanisms needed to improve at golf.

In this conversation we discuss how they apply the principles and seek to support golfers on their journey. We explore some of the the approaches that they use with young players, elite amateurs and also aspiring professionals.

It is a fascinating conversation.

The book can be purchased here (This is an affiliate link...using it helps to support the show)

Beyond being an 'auto correct coach' - a conversation with Craig Morris

Craig Morris is a canoe slalom coach working within the elite performance pathway of British Canoeing. He has recently been shortlisted as a finalist in the Elite Performance Coach Category of the UK Coaching Awards.

Craig's journey into coaching is not a typical one but what comes across in this conversation is an individual who is thirsty for information and learning, willing to be vulnerable in approaching the application of ideas and completely committed to the needs of their athletes.

Key topics discussed include:

- Why you need to be meticulously planned to enable fluid (no pun intended) transitions in practice

- Whether planning fits an ecological approach to coaching

- The importance of leaving things open to challenge by the athlete

- Why coaching is like improvised comedy

I hope you enjoy

'Carving nature at her joints' - A conversation with Andrew Wilson

Andrew Wilson is a researcher from Leeds Beckett University in the UK who co writes about ecological psychology in a fascinating blog 'Notes from two scientific psychologists'

In this fascinating and insightful conversation Andrew and I explore various aspects of Ecological Psychology and try to apply them to real world problems in coaching. We explore the following:

• The difference between affordances and information

• Why "context isn't noise...it is signal"

• How information is the key to effective transfer

• Why motor control researchers are to blame for the lack of understanding of the ecological approach

This conversation has a lot of theoretical heavy lifting in it but stick with it as it will be worth it.

Enjoy