Episode 205: Shawn Myszka (aka - The Movement Miyagi) - All things skill acquisition and movement mastery

This episodes guest is with another brother from another mother of mine - Shawn Myszka - aka. The Movement Miygai!! Shawn Myszka is the Pro Performance Director of Explosive Edge Athletics in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he is entrusted with the personal consulting of countless NFL players who seek him out to take their performance to the limits of their potential. Shawn is a former National-level competitive bodybuilder who has become a sought-after clinician and leader in the field of sport-specific power development, the transfer of training to sport performance, and developing mastery in the movement of athletes at all levels of qualification. At the beginning of 2014, Shawn introduced a new brand into the industry, Movement Mastery, which has the purpose of helping training professionals of all kinds to more fully understand the process involved in attaining more optimal movement for athletes in all sporting disciplines. He also runs a football-specific movement blog, Football Beyond the Stats (www.footballbeyondthestats.wordpress.com), in which he breaks down the movement patterns & mechanics of the top performers in the sport plus offers insight regarding training principles for football performance. On this episode Shawn and I discuss: I ask Shawn how does his put his theory into practice and I ask Shawn about return to performance? Shawn talks about the need to present the learner with problems to solve  I ask Shawn - how can we measure skill acquisition/ learning I ask Shawn - how can athletes get enough practice at movement problem solving without increasing the mechanical load to a detrimental level  We discuss the importance representative learning, and how emotional regulation is a huge factor in movement affordances I ask Shawn for his thoughts on observational learning  I ask Shawn to discuss the importance of intention  I ask Shawn about the conscious vs subconscious learning in skill acquisition  Shawn discusses self-organization systems, synchronization, and attunement within team sports We discuss why exposing team players to different playing positions can be a great strategy to increasing skill acquisition and movement affordances  I ask Shawn about his 2019 Sport Movement Skill Conference  I ask Shawn what is he reading? I ask Shawn how does his learn? I ask Shawn who did he tip to win the Superbowl at the time we recorded this podcast    This was an outstanding episode and I hope you all enjoy it as much as we did! Stay Strong, RB   Show Notes: Website - footballbeyondthestats.wordpress.com Facebook - Shawn Myszka Twitter - @MovementMiyagi  Instagram - #movementmiyagi   Podcasts Mentioned: OPEX Podcast: Episode 9 - Shawn Myszki GAINcast Episode 67: Periodization Trends (with Dave Tenney) Videos Mentioned: #17: Barry Sanders | The Top 100: NFL's Greatest Players (2010) | #FlashbackFridays Kirk Cousins Free Agency Journey to the Vikings | NFL Life Books Mentioned: Behave Dexterity and Its Development Papers/Articles Mentioned: Information, affordances, and the control of action in sport People and Resources Mentioned: Athletic Ability Assessment: a movement assessment protocol for athletes ALTIS Stu McMillan Dan Pfaff James Gibson’s – Ecological Model Karl Newell’s – Constraint Led Approach (task, environment, and organism) Professor Keith Davids  Nikolai Bernstein  James Smith Alan Watts Barry Sanders Rich Masters Tony Dungy Isaac Newton Fergus Connolly  Richard Shuttleworth  Bruce Lee Aaron Donald Kirk Cousins Adam Thielen Ed Coughlan   Show Sponsors: Ultimate Performance Online Mentorship To get INSTANT ACCESS to almost 20 hours of World Class online video Strength and Conditioning Information go to upmentorship.com ALTIS ALTIS 360 ALTIS Education   Ultimate Athlete Concepts Ultimate Athlete Concepts is a multi faceted company, providing the most sophisticated scientific material in sport science. UAC is the worlds leading resource for translated sport preparation educational material.    National Sports Performance Association Certified Program Design Specialist Certified Speed and Agility Coach Cerfitied Weightlifting Performance Coach Certified Sports Nutrition Coach   Athletes Acceleration Complete Warm Up Complete Speed Training Complete Speed Games Complete Jumps Training Complete Olympic Lifting Complete Youth Training Complete Guide to Training the Female Athlete Complete Core Complete Sports Conditioning  Complete Sports Nutrition Complete Program Design Sports Camp Empire   Patreon Help support the podcast by becoming a Patreon to the show here - Patreon