Episode 26

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5th Jan 2022

EvelChat #26 “We Never Stand in the Same River Twice…”: A Chat with Shawn Myszka.

In this episode of EvelChat Derek & Movement Expert & Skill Acquisition Coach Shawn Myszka discuss learning, teaching & technical development within the context of one of sport’s most complex movement challenges, the Hammer Throw.

Shawn has served primarily as a Personal Performance Advisor & Movement Skill Acquisition Coach for National Football League (NFL) players since 2008, working with approximately 12 players each year and has partnered with 5 NFL All-Pro selections and 12 NFL Pro Bowl Team members.

You can find Shawn’s full bio at https://emergentmvmt.com/about/

Shawn’s website: https://emergentmvmt.com  

You can find Shawn on Twitter at @movementmiyagi 

Topics:

  • Coaching in northern environments & innovation
  • Skill development in varying conditions
  • Facilitating skill development as opposed to imparting a technical model (Ecological Dynamics)
  • Unique technical and physical elements of the hammer throw
  • Nikolai Bernstein’s ideas on problem solving
  • The functional adaptive relationship between the athlete & performance
  • Movement as a problem-solving process
  • Drills vs. whole movement learning
  • A coach’s place in the learning process
  • Global movements & coaching beginners
  • Creating dexterity & “Bulletproofness” in technical development
  • The line between fostering individual problem-solving solutions & facilitating ineffective technique
  • Barry Sanders & chasing technical models
  • “Adaptability Zone” & the confluence of constraints
  • Considering Emergence in movement learning
  • Global vs. Part learning with beginners
  • Ego and coaching technical models
  • Authenticity & problem solving “on the fly”
  • Creating / exposing athletes to different environments
  • The line between ‘thinking’ & moving instinctively.
  • One-on-one coaching & over-coaching 
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The EveltrakSport.com Coaching Podcast with Derek Evely
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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.