The Constraints Collective
Our mission is to transform practice environments in sport by equipping coaches with the knowledge, understanding and skills to bridge the gap between skill acquisition theory and practice.
The Constraints Collective
Latest Episodes
Episode #109 The Six-Foot Pink Furry Dice - Ian & Keith's September Monthly Catch-Up
This month, Ian Renshaw and Keith Davids chatted about why sport keeps falling for the same trick: something happens to be nearby when a team wins, and within a season everyone else is copying it. Ian's anchor image is Clive Woodward's six-foot...
Episode #108 Foxy's Long Way Round — Jay Carter on Ryan Fox, Late Specialisation, and the Open
This month's guest podcast: Ian Renshaw is joined by Jay Carter, Golf New Zealand's National Team Coach and host of the *Talking Performance* podcast (197 episodes and counting), for a conversation built around a clip Jay sent after listening t...
Episode 108 Foxy's Long Way Round — Jay Carter on Ryan Fox, Late Specialisation, and the Open
This month's guest podcast: Ian Renshaw is joined by Jay Carter, Golf New Zealand's National Team Coach and host of the Talking Performance podcast (197 episodes and counting), for a conversation built around a clip Jay sent after list...
Episode #107 The Bee Hotel Nobody Designed — Ian Renshaw & Keith Davids Review Woods, Richard, Martin & Cairney (2026)
This month's theory paper review: Ian and Keith dig into Woods, Richard, Martin & Cairney (2026), "Loosening Tightened Logics: A Comment on the Role of Affordances," published in New Ideas in Psychology, 83, 101289 — a paper that n...
Episode #106 Nobody Talks About Failure at the Skate Park — Craig Harrison on Designing Rooms Where Getting It Wrong Is Cheap
This month's guest podcast: Ian Renshaw and Keith Davids are joined by Craig Harrison, who spent almost ten years running the long-term athlete development programme at AUT Millennium in Auckland and has just written a book, *Coach by Design*, ...