The By Any Means Coaches Podcast
The By Any Means Coaches Podcast: Exploring the Science, Art, and Culture of Modern Coaching.
The BAM Coaches Podcast takes coaches inside the evolution of player development. Grounded in modern skill acquisition science and Constraints-Led Approach but guided by balance and context. Hosts Coleman Ayers, Tyler Clark, and Alex Silva dive into how athletes truly learn - across cultures, systems, and environments. Each episode unpacks the intersection between science, experience, and intuition, equipping coaches to build players who think, adapt, and thrive anywhere in the world.
The By Any Means Coaches Podcast
What Is Skill & Constraints Explained
This week I touch on what exactly skill is, and how it differs from things like technique, as well as what exactly constraints are and how we can use/apply them
There's an important distinction that I think needs to be more known and that's the difference between a games-approach and the constraints-led approach, while you'll see a lot of crossover between the two they are very different. There are plenty of coaches that create small-sided games and apply one constraint and then leave that and let them play for awhile, and that's where I believe the misunderstanding comes from - some people think that I throw the ball out and just let my players play 3v3 freely... that's not the case.
I work hard to engineer practice sessions to development skillful basketball players, and that happens through creating unique and creative small-sided games with specific constraints applied in order to elicit the skills needed to be improved upon.
Let me know what you guys think!!
