Matt Wigham is a Tennis Australia Master Club Professional and LTA Level 4 Tennis Coach. He also holds a master's degree in psychology. Matt has been a full-time tennis coach for the past 15 years, both in the UK and Australia, working as a private coach, as well as on behalf of the LTA and Tennis Australia delivering workforce development initiatives and coach education. He has also written and developed a number of educational resources for tennis coaches and P.E teachers, and his work has been published by the ITF. 

This week we are joined by Marco Perazzo from New Jersey Martial arts (www.njmaonline.com) and Scott Sievewright from Primal MKE. MMA and grappling coaches working through an ecological coaching approach.

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In this episode Keith, Martyn and Ian discuss the role nonlinear pedagogy can play in supporting intrinsic motivation in sports coaching.

Link to paper https://opensportssciencesjournal.com/contents/volumes/V5/TOSSJ-5-88/TOSSJ-5-88.pdf

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Carl Woods is currently an Associate Professor of Skill Acquisition at the University of Queensland and the Queensland Academy of Sport. His research orients three primary themes: 1) theoretical developments to, and advancements for, the discipline, 2) applied insights to guide practice task design in high performance sport, and 3) environmental design to support exploratory physical activity and ecological literacy. He addresses these themes from within the ecological metatheory.

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Greg Souders is a jiu-jitsu black belt under David Jacobs who worked extensively with Lloyd Irvin and is the founder of Standard Jiu-Jitsu, one of the top no-gi jiu-jitsu/submission wrestling gyms in the sport. 

Greg is known for his novel approach to grappling based on Ecological Dynamics, a methodology he used to develop highly successful athletes such as Deandre Corbe, Gavin Corbe, and Alex Nguyen. 

This week we are joined by some of our Patreon members live from the 5th Movement Skills Acquisition Conference. 

In this week's episode Martyn and Ian discuss creativity in coaching.

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Michael is a skill acquisition specialist who has worked within the National Institute Network (Australia) as a practitioner and researcher since 2012. He has a PhD in skill acquisition in sport, with a focus on practice methods for skill retention and transfer.

Michael has had industry appointments as a skill acquisition specialist at the South Australian Sports Institute and the Australian Institute of Sport where he was responsible for the support of coaches seeking to develop the skills of their athletes. He has a joint appointment between the AIS and the University of Canberra as a lecturer of skill acquisition.

Tom Coyd is an English rugby league player and wheelchair rugby league coach. He plays for Medway Dragons in the London and South East Rugby League and is the head coach of London Roosters and the England national wheelchair rugby league team. 

In the King's 2023 Birthday Honours he was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to wheelchair rugby league football. 

Tom Coyd's first coaching experience with the national side was in 2018 when he joined as an assistant coach. He was promoted to head coach in 2020. In November 2022 he led England to victory in the 2021 Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup final. Coyd was awarded an MBE for services to wheelchair rugby league in the King's 2023 Birthday Honours. At the 2023 Man of Steel Awards, Coyd was named the Wheelchair Super League Coach of the Year. At the 2023 UK Coaching Awards, he won the "Greatest Coaching Moment" award for sporting events between 1 November 2022 and 20 November 2023 with the World Cup victory, narrowly surpassing Sarina Wiegman's World Cup campaign with the England women's national football team which cumulated in the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup final. 

Made of Steel: Wheelchair Rugby’s Fiercest Rivalry

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001r9zl/storyville-made-of-steel-wheelchair-rugbys-fiercest-rivalry

Rob completed his BA in Psychology at Queen’s University and his MS and PhD in Experimental Psychology at York University. After receiving his PhD in 1998, he worked as a Research Scientist for Nissan Motor Corporation in Cambridge, MA, USA. In 2001 he was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the newly formed Applied Psychology Program at Arizona State University. In 2006 he was appointed Associate Professor and Program Head. 

Since 2005 he has also worked part-time as a Research Psychologist for the United States Air Force. From January-June 2010 he was appointed as a Visiting Professor in Sport Sciences at the University of the Mediterranean in France. From 2010-2014 he was a Reader (Associate Professor) in Perception & Action in the School of Sport, Exercise & Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Birmingham, UK. 

His research focuses on perceptual-motor control with a particular emphasis on the demanding actions involved in driving, aviation, and sports. His goal is to conduct basic research that can be applied towards the improvement of training, simulation, accident prevention and human-machine interface development within these contexts. 

In 2007 he was awarded the Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology from the American Psychological Association and the Earl Alluisi Award for Early Career Achievement in the Field of Applied Experimental & Engineering Psychology.