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Finding the Edge — 71 episodes

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Staying Out of the Middle: Designing Rich Learning Environments feat. Brice Crider

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The Art of Play: Rethinking Player Development with Rafe Kelley

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A Walkthrough of Dynamics of Skill Acquisition - Chapter 1, Part 2

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Unpacking the book Dynamics of Skill Acquisition - Chapter 1, Part 1

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Exploring Meta-Stability & Skill Acquisition in Sports

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Recruiting Dilemma: Prioritizing Velocity or Skill?

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Beyond Drills: A Multi-Discipline Foundation for Player Development with Tommy Johnson

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Combating Walk Rates: Developing Command

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Beyond Exit Velo: Insights from Ryan Jeffers' Approach

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Moving Beyond The Process Vs Results Dichotomy: A Principled Based Approach

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How Representative is Representative Enough? Transfer of Training and the Ecological Approach

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The Role of Intent in the Pitcher-Batter Duel

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EcoD Basics: Seeing Beyond The Performer-Environment Asymmetry

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Square1 Round Table: Application & Experiences

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Applying an Ecological Approach at the D3 Level

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Motor Control Restoration for Enhancing Player Development and Performance - feat Jared Slater

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Investigating MLB's New Bat Metrics | Ft Max Bay

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Tackling Arm Injuries: Principles of Arm Health Part 2 - Ft Bill Miller, Tanner Pruett, & Yuji Suzuki

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Tackling Arm Injuries from an Ecological Perspective Part 1 - Ft Tanner Pruett & Yuji Suzuki

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Specifying & Non Specifying Information in Batted Ball Sports with Ben Franks

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Developing Pitchers from an Ecological Perspective with Tanner Pruett

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Reflecting on the 2023 Sport Movement Skill Conference with Garrett Baker & AJ Ferrara

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Cody Bellinger, Luis Arraez, and Expected Stats

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Coach Like a Farmer: Cultivating Player Development with Chad Longworth and Bill Miller

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Within Failure Lies the Seeds of Future Success: Taking the Fear Out of Failure | With Chad Longworth

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Prospective Control and Analyzing Data from an Ecological Perspective with Andrew Wilson

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Integrating Exploration Back Into On-Field Performance

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Serious Play: Developing Skillful Movers

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Goodhart's Law: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Analytics

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How Visual Conditions Shape our Hitting Ability with Chad Longworth

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Utilizing Play to Rehabbing Injuries and Staying Healthy with Jackie Wu

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The Next Gen Coach: Strength & Conditioning meets Skill Development with Bill Miller

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Exploring the Mental Side of the Game through an Ecological Lens with Julian Gonalez

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Live Commentary on Brewers vs Braves NLDS Game 4 with Caleb Abney

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Baseball Analytics and Twitter Threads with Max Bay

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Utilizing Challenging Practice Activities with Caleb Abney

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Reflection on Flow States from an Ecological Perspective

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Flow for Peak Performance with Ted Monnich

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Building intrinsic motivation, player relationships, and workload management with George Zirkel

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Developing Catchers Thru an Ecological Lens with Joe Mangiameli

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Batting Practice and the Highest Form of Technique

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Swing Timing an Ecological Exploration

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Variability a discussion with Rob Gray on his new research paper

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Is anticipation good or bad for hitters?

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Student managers, tech, and analytics with Cal Poly Analyst Ethan Moore

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An ecological approach to developing pitchers with Garrett Baker

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The Value of Student Managers with Sam Bornstein

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The evolution of a baseball coach: A conversation with Chad Longworth

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Exploring Batter's Gaze Behavior with Kyle Lindley from Driveline's R&D Dept

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Data Analytics: A conversation with Driveline R&D Analyst Alex Caravan

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Hitting Roundtable feat. Caleb Abney, Nick Ascue, and Brian Pozos

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Pitching, mental health, and pitch secquencing study reflection

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A discussion with Rob Gray exploring ecological psychology and baseball

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Exploring the relationship of Pitch Location and Exit Velocity with R Studio

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Creating Adjustable Hitters with Caleb Abney

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Exploring Catching and Hitting from an Ecological Dynamics Lens with Nick Ascue

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Exploring how motor learning theories and analytics can inform one another

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Exploring the Mental Side of the Game with Troy Rallings

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Analyzing Data with R an Interview with Robert Frey

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Motor Control Restoration a Conversation with Shawn Sherman Creator of the Square1 System

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Interview with MSI Pitching Coordinator George Zirkel

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Interview with Jake Stone of Simple Sabermetrics & Director of Ops & Player Dev at Penn State

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Reflecting on Finding the Edge in 2019 and the start of 2020

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A Conversation with Sumair Shah former Driveline R&D Dept.

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Interview with Arkansas Graduate Manager Phil Cebuhar

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Principles for Randomized Practice and Representative Design for Machine Work

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Interview with 108 Hitting Trainer Brian Pozos

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Exploring Ways to Utilize Metrics and Data

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How to Incorporate an Ecological Dynamics Approach in Batting Practice

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How to Use Data to Develop Adjustable Hitters

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Exploring Environments in a Constraint Led Approach