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A series of related gems today - starting off with a truly outstanding scene-setter from @CarlWoods25, @JamesRRudd & @Robertson_SJ - asking (en-route) "what are the properties of specific affordances that invite their realisation by certain individuals?" https://sportsmedicine-open.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40798-020-00280-9
Supporting wayfinding "is an embodied and embedded process, in which support practitioners work with [xxxx] to deepen his/her knowledge of the environment by guiding his/her attention toward its critical features used to inform intentions, perceptual exploration and action"
![Supporting wayfinding "is an embodied and embedded process, in which support practitioners work with [xxxx] to deepen his/her knowledge of the environment by guiding his/her attention toward its critical features used to inform intentions, perceptual exploration and action"](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Elm6oHRXUAIjr1c.png "Supporting wayfinding \"is an embodied and embedded process, in which support practitioners work with [xxxx] to deepen his/her knowledge of the environment by guiding his/her attention toward its critical features used to inform intentions, perceptual exploration and action\"")
![Supporting wayfinding "is an embodied and embedded process, in which support practitioners work with [xxxx] to deepen his/her knowledge of the environment by guiding his/her attention toward its critical features used to inform intentions, perceptual exploration and action"](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Elm5wpJW0AAfdc7.png "Supporting wayfinding \"is an embodied and embedded process, in which support practitioners work with [xxxx] to deepen his/her knowledge of the environment by guiding his/her attention toward its critical features used to inform intentions, perceptual exploration and action\"")
![Supporting wayfinding "is an embodied and embedded process, in which support practitioners work with [xxxx] to deepen his/her knowledge of the environment by guiding his/her attention toward its critical features used to inform intentions, perceptual exploration and action"](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Elm8W6hXEAEl-mp.jpg "Supporting wayfinding \"is an embodied and embedded process, in which support practitioners work with [xxxx] to deepen his/her knowledge of the environment by guiding his/her attention toward its critical features used to inform intentions, perceptual exploration and action\"")
Then a podcast which does an awesome job of showing what all of this can look like in a high-performance coaching context - with an exemplary, inspiring coach who is "really thankful" he "never had stable access to a coach" - c/o @MorrisCraig_ & @stu_arm https://www.spreaker.com/user/thetalentequation/craig-morris?autoplay=1
1:02:00 @MorrisCraig_ goes back, once more, to @russellearnshaw's glorious question: “What makes the best paddlers in the world? Is it their ability to deliver a plan, or their ability to adapt within the performance?” & see also:
https://blubrry.com/uk_coaching/68354962/the-skill-acquisition-podcast-ep-1-craig-morris-how-an-understanding-of-skill-acquisition-transformed-my-coaching https://www.ukcoaching.org/resources/topics/expert-opinions/subscription/skill-acquisition-developing-adaptability
https://blubrry.com/uk_coaching/68354962/the-skill-acquisition-podcast-ep-1-craig-morris-how-an-understanding-of-skill-acquisition-transformed-my-coaching https://www.ukcoaching.org/resources/topics/expert-opinions/subscription/skill-acquisition-developing-adaptability
@MorrisCraig_: "if we're going to tell people and show people how to do something in THE way, THE one way, then to me, it makes sense that we've got to really be sure that there IS one way and sure that our one way is THE way. And I'm just abundantly unsure of that" #BecauseHuman
@stu_arm: "the more you begin to operate that like this, the [...] more you disabuse yourself of the notion of the coach as the knower [...] the coach as the one who has a degree of control" - pointing us to the coach as "an active participant in learning with another being" 
"I sometimes fall into this trap. These are the affordances in this environment, and I'm going to constrain this environment so you can see them, as opposed to [...] responding to what the athletes play to me through their action [so] I understand what they are attuning to"
In passing... a recent gem from @stu_arm & @ShakeyWaits & @coachKCvb discussing Newell's suggestion that postural control, locomotion & object interaction as "fundamental" within an ecological approach to skill development - one for all aspirant coaches!
Last but not least (for now) - an outstanding @ShakeyWaits presentation linked to the ongoing paradigm shift within coaching. What does the shift to ecological approaches actually mean for coaches working to support skill development? Highly recommended 
Typically, just as soon as I write "last but not least"... @PsychScientists comes up with "How we actually do stuff is not particularly accessible to common sense, and so common sense is a very limited basis for identifying important parts" #becausehuman https://twitter.com/PsychScientists/status/1322494805788794881
https://twitter.com/PsychScientists/status/1322494805788794881
Plus this outstanding riposte - which adds two points I commonly make: that everyone's doing stuff which is best explained through EcoD... even where the coach's theory lies 100% within IP frameworks... & that search space commonly hits functional limits! https://twitter.com/rrangana1/status/1322522709046317058
Many of those wanting an "evidence base" for ecological approaches are talking as if we have any meaningful alternative - which is rather overlooking the one thing we do know: that IP always was unworkable - but hey, if folk want science, see these links
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1324255420916051973.html
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1324255420916051973.html
Another thread from @PsychScientists - this time on how representational & ecological approaches "are two incompatible understandings of what kind of physical system could be a perceiving-acting system" & how they split "right at the ontological base" 
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1332361131684466690?refresh=1606582771
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1332361131684466690?refresh=1606582771
This response from @bigpicsoccer gets at the crux: whilst we can & must dispense with "mental" in relation to representation (incoherent, unworkable)... we're here to explain consciousness, not to explain it away. Hence @tim_elmo's Semiotics & much else! https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1332704778493833217.html
