Skill Adaptation Beats Skill Acquisition: Ecological Dynamics & the OODA Loop | Keith Davids, PhD

Send us Fan Mail Ecological dynamics researcher Keith Davids says skill adaptation is a better term than skill acquisition for how people learn. The difference shapes how coaches design practice, run the debrief and set intent. Keith Davids is Professor of Perceptual-Motor Learning at Sheffield Hallam University and co-author of The Constraints-Led Approach (Routledge, 2019). He and Brian "Ponch" Rivera cover heterarchy and self-organization, intention and attunement, Karl Newell's interacting constraints, strong and weak anticipation, co-design with athletes, and attractor landscapes. Davids says a good athlete acts like a scientist and the performer is the problem solver. Ponch ties the conversation to the real OODA loop, where orientation sits at the center and the performer and the environment form one system. The Constraints Collective: https://www.theconstraintscollective.com John Flach on No Way Out: https://youtu.be/R5w8SQN_U3I Stay connected with No Way Out and Conceptual Spiral X: @NoWayOutcast | @PonchAGLX Substack: Conceptual Spiral - conceptualspiral.com Stay connected Read the full posts: https://www.conceptualspiral.com Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NoWayOutPodcast Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/no-way-out/id1663685759 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5fzIKBmVR7ARosQ3I52uNC Follow the show on X: https://x.com/NoWayOutcast Follow Ponch on X: https://x.com/PonchAGLX AGLX: https://www.aglx.com