"Riding bikes give you a way of seeing & acting in our environment in creative ways. Always looking to progress and push skills & boundaries. Skateboarders will know this feeling too. You never see a city the same again" - perception @michaelthaber blog 👇
"In BMX there is a ever moving boundary of things that have been done. Not only by you, but by anyone. Once you know something has been done it opens possibilities [...] Just knowing someone has done something similar changes what you think can be done 👇
mikehaber.co/2020/11/21/bmx/
"...people employing security guards to do their job are thinking they are setting up governing constraints. But often these become enabling constraints, creating the pressure & opportunity to get things done" & "stuff gets done when security turn up" 👇
We could call 👇 "Myth, Ritual & the BMX World" - but it's more about "where complexity science shows up in real life, & how we can deliberately and intuitively approach problems with different methods to get the outcome we want" applied @snowded/#cynefin
Take an environment that rewards progression: "doing things you couldn’t do yesterday, doing things that no-one had considered doing at this place, doing things no one else had done, and doing things no one else had even thought of" 👇 #cynefin & coaching!
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Key question #1 - How do those shown in the clips in the blog come to have dispositions & skills that lead them to perceive affordances as they do?

Key question #2: Does our answer to Q. #1 have implications for education, training & apprenticeships?

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merely for the purposes of [the body]"
quote.ucsd.edu/sed/files/2014… It has been conventional in...
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ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… The authors may well be studying phenomena within an environ
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Their reference to "commodification" links to the biggest of all for me: talk of "producing" athletes / players 😡

Language matters.

We never (ever) "make" (anything) out of young people! How Elite Athletes Are Made
We need to see this through to its logical conclusion... which is that "talent pathways" are NOT production lines.

What/how we write reflects convention... so let's get beyond criticism of individual contributors - it's CONVENTIONAL to write like this 👇

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C.f. "the spectre of rule by experts" - a serious concern?             The new conspiraicism’s attitude to expertise
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1. Arguments & evidence;

2. Critical thinking skills & intellectual virtues;

3. Unmasking the propagandistic nature of conspiracy theories;

Reminiscent of this paper from coach development world...

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How do we connect sense-makers around:

1. A common respect for the voices of young people;

2. The diverse experiences of those who have spent their lives helping others find meaning in movement?

As @ImSporticus notes, this CSJ paper is not the answer!

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Does school-based sport have a place? Of course! For some, school sport will be a way of becoming entangled in the lives of others in ways which will lead to a pastime becoming a valued, stabilising influence throughout life. That's awesome! #becausehuman
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Ideal: those involved co-creating the positive experiences! #ownership

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