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French Academy - Le Havre Academy Director Michael Bunel, famously worked with players such as Mahrez and Pogba, shares his insight into the importance of practice design, developing the p[layer's ability to search (Scan) for information from the envrionment, in order to solve problems and how he creates a Process of Learning from creating environments that promote the player's ability to  scan  from real-game situations.

Gérard shares interesting insights into his PhD research on practice design and how 'practice is search', with key considerations for coaches. Gérard also shares Ulearnbly 4-C's Coaching Principles (Choice-Competition-Challenge-Clarity) which you can use to guide your practice.

Gérard Jones is a UEFA A Licenced Coach with over 14 years experience coaching in football in the UK, US and Morocco.  A PhD Researcher in Skill Adaptation, Gérard is investigating how coaches can use 'feedback' to guide the 'attentional search' of athletes. Here is a presented he delivered at the Sports Coaches Congress 2021, Lisbon  Title of Research Paper: Providing augmented information for learning transitions in football: The transitional learning model for coaches

Anson Dorrance, 22 time National Champion, presents at the What Drives Winning Conference on June 11th, 2015 in St. Louis, Missouri his insights into valuing people first, empowering his players for the future.

Rob Gray, Associate Professor of Human Systems Engineering  at Arizona State University. Rob has an outstanding panel with Tyler Yearby, James Vaughan, Shaun Myszka  etc experts in learning environments and coaching across a range of different sports from NFL, Soccer, Equestrian etc and talk about how coaches can use video analysis from an ecological perspective.

World famous coach John Wooden, with profound simplicity,  redefines success and urges us all to pursue the best in ourselves. In this inspiring talk he shares the advice he gave his players at UCLA, quotes poetry and remembers his father's wisdom.

Speaking at Training Ground Guru's Big Data 2021 Webinar, Stats Perform outline how to support key recruitment challenges using AI.  The speakers are: Jens Melvang (Product Manager for Stats Perform) and Joe Gallagher and Daniel Dinsdale (AI Scientists).

Leading expert in scanning, Geir Jordet, sharing his work on researching scanning in elite football and how it can be coached.  Presentation from Sunday Session - Learning From The Game to Design Drills that Develop Scanning Skills  (specific to Geir section)

ULearnbly has found evidence of significant changes in football in La Liga over the last 10 years relating to distances covered, use of possession and player actions. How does this influence your practice design? coaching? What will the next 10 years / Future Game look like?

 American billionaire entrepreneur, television personality, and media proprietor whose net worth is an estimated $4.3 billion, shares in this short clip the importance of doing what you love

Unique insight into the story of Eddie Hearn, world-reknown boxing promoter,  where he shares his insight into his journey, outlook on business and life integration and much more! This relentless, obsessive behaviour to become successful

Over 85% of the information footballers receive whilst playing is through their eyes (Roberts et al., 2017) 

Football is a complex, dynamic and unpredictable sport and thus requires players to have the ability to 'explore' and 'interact' with their environment, to be able to develop adaptable movement solutions.

Consider the influence this has on your practice design?  #PracticeisSearch (Newell, 1991)

Examples of how your movements can create space of yourself or your teammate to exploit. 

Prof. Mark Williams presents high level concepts from his extensive research into talent development, talent recruitment, practice design environments and coaching feedback in football at the  ECSS Metroopolis Ruhr 2017 Conference: "Development of Talented Players to World Champions in Football".  Mark Williams is a Professor at the College of Health and Life Sciences, Brunel University London in England. His research focus is on the psychological and neural mechanisms which the acquisition and development of perceptual-cognitive and perceptual-motor skills are based upon. He is Editor in Chief for the Journal of Sport Sciences and has written multiple books, articles and abstracts. Recent research in neuroscience has found that individuals can achieve excellence through many hours of deliberate, purposeful practice.  The lecture highlights some of the key psychological adaptations that result from many hours of practice. A particular focus is set on the development of perceptual-cognitive skills such as anticipation and decision making, and practical implications for talent search and development are highlighted.

Leading skill acquisition expert and published author, founder of the Perception-Action podcast, Rob Gray outlines the  differences between an Information Processing Approach and an Ecological Dynamics approach, A looking at some misconceptions about the ecological approach and how we should be evaluating practice activities in terms of their ability to develop 'search'.