Episode 25

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19th Dec 2021

EvelChat #25 “The Solution Has To Come From Them…”: A Chat with Stu McMillan.

In this 2nd of back-to-back episodes of EvelChat with our buddy Stu McMillan, Derek & Stu discuss learning & skill acquisition.

Topics include:

  • Stu’s a “People Person”
  • Skill stability & the edges of the technical bandwidth 
  • Performance vs. learning sessions
  • Variability & the range of accepted movement within a technical model
  • The “problem in the hammer throw” 
  • Technique vs. Skill 
  • Development coaching vs. Elite coaching
  • The content vs. the context of a movement
  • Removing context to help an athlete learn more
  • Challenging athletes to move more effectively
  • Prescription vs. facilitation
  • Changing an athlete’s technical model
  • Guiding the athlete to solve their own technical solutions.


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EvelChat
The EveltrakSport.com Coaching Podcast with Derek Evely
A Podcast about Coaching, from specialist turn-ons to general piss-offs… & everything in between.

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Derek Evely

Derek Evely has taken a career path unique in Olympic sport. As an athletics coach, he has coached professionally at all levels along the developmental continuum and is widely regarded as a foremost expert in both youth development programming and elite training methodology. As a coach he has produced three World Junior Championship medalists, two of whom went on to win Olympic medals. He was the development coach for Gary Reed (IAAF World Championships 800m Silver Medalist), Dylan Armstrong (Beijing Olympic Shot Put Bronze Medalist) and Sophie Hitchon (2016 Olympic Hammer Throw Bronze Medalist). He has been a national team coach for both Britain and Canada to every major championship on the global calendar including the Olympic Games, IAAF World Championships and European Championships. He was a High Performance Training Centre Director for British Athletics leading into the 2012 Olympic Games where he coached the youngest athlete on the British athletics team (Hitchon) to her first Olympic final. From 2005 to 2009 he was the Sport Science Manager for the Canadian Athletics Coaching Center. He consults and coaches with federations and individuals worldwide on all aspects of developmental and high performance programming. He currently lives in Chicago with his wife and three teenagers.