Learning to Fight! Conversations in Combat Skill
The Primal MMA podcast is back and rebranded as the Learning to fight podcast.
Same convos bringing together coaches, athletes, and sports scientists to discuss training and practice design for Mixed Martial Arts. Exploring the science of skill acquisition, human motivation, and sports psychology, the podcast seeks answers to the question, can we get better quicker?
Now with Coach Adam Singer of SBG Athens
Learning to Fight! Conversations in Combat Skill
#48 - Hot Off The Press - The Boys from Emergence talk about their recently published Ecological Approach to MMA Journal Article.
The boys from emergence are back to discuss their recently accepted and published paper on "Applying an ecological dynamics framework to mixed martial arts training".
This paper followed their previous publication from 2023 "(Re)conceptualizing movement behavior in sport as a problem-solving activity".
Both of these papers were supported and co-authored by Professor Keith Davids himself a titan in the skill acquisition community and a pioneer of ecological dynamic.
SBG's Adam Singer, The Academy's Andy Grahn and myself were also able to provide modest contributions by way of case studies that were included in the paper as practical examples of the application of an ecological approach at our prospective gyms.
Tyler Yearby and Shawn Myszka plan on further investigation and future studies in the space of MMA from an ecological perspective. Until then, check out the papers linked above and to access an absolute treasure trove of all things ecological, check out their website at Emergence.