In this episode of EvelChat Derek & Movement Expert & Skill Acquisition Coach Shawn Myszka discuss learning, teaching & technical development within the context of one of sport’s most complex movement challenges, the Hammer Throw.

Shawn has served primarily as a Personal Performance Advisor & Movement Skill Acquisition Coach for National Football League (NFL) players since 2008, working with approximately 12 players each year and has partnered with 5 NFL All-Pro selections and 12 NFL Pro Bowl Team members.

You can find Shawn’s full bio at https://emergentmvmt.com/about/

Shawn’s website: https://emergentmvmt.com  

You can find Shawn on Twitter at @movementmiyagi 

Topics:

• Coaching in northern environments & innovation
• Skill development in varying conditions
• Facilitating skill development as opposed to imparting a technical model (Ecological Dynamics)
• Unique technical and physical elements of the hammer throw
• Nikolai Bernstein’s ideas on problem solving
• The functional adaptive relationship between the athlete & performance
• Movement as a problem-solving process
• Drills vs. whole movement learning
• A coach’s place in the learning process
• Global movements & coaching beginners
• Creating dexterity & “Bulletproofness” in technical development
• The line between fostering individual problem-solving solutions & facilitating ineffective technique
• Barry Sanders & chasing technical models
• “Adaptability Zone” & the confluence of constraints
• Considering Emergence in movement learning
• Global vs. Part learning with beginners
• Ego and coaching technical models
• Authenticity & problem solving “on the fly”
• Creating / exposing athletes to different environments
• The line between ‘thinking’ & moving instinctively.
• One-on-one coaching & over-coaching