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Our mission is to transform practice environments in sport by equipping coaches with the knowledge, understanding and skills to bridge the gap between skill acquisition theory and practice.
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Signup to Generate a PitchOur mission is to transform practice environments in sport by equipping coaches with the knowledge, understanding and skills to bridge the gap between skill acquisition theory and practice.
Recent episodes include "Episode #113 It All Stems from Byrom Street: The Roots of Sports Science" (29 October 2026, 49 minutes), "Episode #112 Perform Worse, Understand Better - Ian & Keith Revisit Ana Ramos (Guest Review)" (22 October 2026, 56 minutes), and "Episode #110 Adam Singer Part One ("The Only Thing We Know Is What We Test"" (1 October 2026, 60 minutes).
The Constraints Collective publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 52 minutes across 113 episodes.
Booking probability for The Constraints Collective is 33%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Constraints Collective requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Constraints Collective's contact route on record: public web form.
The strongest fits for The Constraints Collective are Sports and Fitness, Golf & Recreation. The Constraints Collective has an education audience.
The Constraints Collective is an education podcast with 113 episodes published.
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Episode #113
In this month’s roundup, Keith Davids and Ian Renshaw go back to where sports science began. In 1975, Liverpool Polytechnic launched the world’s first single-honours sports science degree at Byrom Street, Liverpool. It...
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This week Ian Renshaw and Keith Davids go back to episode 21 from October 2024, our conversation with Ana Ramos, a volleyball coach, coach educator and researcher at the University of Porto. Keith was involved in Ana's...
Episode #110
The Only Thing We Know Is What We Test — Adam Singer on Aliveness, Safety by Design, and What the Calf Kick Proves About Perception This month's guest podcast: Ian Renshaw is joined by Marco Perazzo, filling in for...
Episode #109
This month, Ian Renshaw and Keith Davids chatted about why sport keeps falling for the same trick: something happens to be nearby when a team wins, and within a season everyone else is copying it. Ian's anchor image is...
Episode #108
This month's guest podcast: Ian Renshaw is joined by Jay Carter, Golf New Zealand's National Team Coach and host of the *Talking Performance* podcast (197 episodes and counting), for a conversation built around a clip...
Episode #108
This month's guest podcast: Ian Renshaw is joined by Jay Carter, Golf New Zealand's National Team Coach and host of the Talking Performance podcast (197 episodes and counting), for a conversation built around a clip Jay...
Episode #107
This month's theory paper review: Ian and Keith dig into Woods, Richard, Martin & Cairney (2026), "Loosening Tightened Logics: A Comment on the Role of Affordances," published in New Ideas in Psychology , 83, 101289 — a...
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This month's guest podcast: Ian Renshaw and Keith Davids are joined by Craig Harrison, who spent almost ten years running the long-term athlete development programme at AUT Millennium in Auckland and has just written a...
Episode #106
This month, Ian Renshaw and Keith Davids work through a run of stories that all land on the same idea: the environment you train in writes itself into your technique, whether anyone designs it that way or not. Ian opens...
Episode #104
Ian Renshaw and Keith Davids revisit Episode 72 with Mark O'Sullivan (Norwegian School of Sport Sciences) — why coaches are rarely taught to observe, a goalkeeping skill that transferred in from Gaelic football with no...
Episode #103
# What Makes a Champion — Ian Renshaw & Keith Davids Review Gullich et al (2021) In this theory episode, Ian Renshaw and Keith Davids dig into Gullich, McNamara, and Hambrick's 2021 meta-analysis "What Makes a Champion...
Episode #102
In Part Two of this milestone two-part conversation, Ian Renshaw continues talking with Professor Chris Button (University of Otago) — this time about water safety and drowning prevention. New Zealand has one of the...
Episode #101
In this month's catch-up, Ian Renshaw and Keith Davids work through a run of ideas connected by a single question: how do you prepare an athlete for the conditions, schedules, and pressure you can't control? Keith...
Episode #100
In this landmark 100th episode, Ian Renshaw and Keith Davids are joined by Professor Chris Button from the University of Otago, whose research has ranged from ball-catching biomechanics to basketball free throws to...
Episode #99
An emergency episode: VAR was dominating the World Cup news cycle, and a paper had just landed asking the exact question everyone was arguing about. Ian Renshaw and Keith Davids review Schütz, Betsch & Plessner's "The...
Episode #98
# From the Pitch to the Algorithm — with Ben Teune In this episode, Ian Renshaw and Keith Davids are joined by Ben Teune, Sports Scientist and Analytics Lead at the WTA (Women's Tennis Association), whose PhD work —...
Episode #97
The San Antonio Spurs led Game 4 of the 2026 NBA Finals by 29 points and lost it on a tip-in with 1.2 seconds left — the biggest comeback in Finals history. Ian Renshaw and Keith Davids use it to argue momentum isn't a...
Episode #96
Keith and Ian go back through Daniel Lycett's PE curriculum redesign from episode 81 — and pull apart what was really going on underneath it: context, donor sports, and designing tasks people can actually succeed at...
Episode #95
#95 Before the Ball Moves: How International Footballers Gain Their Advantage In this episode, Ian Renshaw and Professor Keith Davids explore the tension between practice tools and movement variability. Using Ian's...
Episode #94
#94 The Constraints Collective Podcast with Michael Richardson In this episode, Ian Renshaw and Keith Davids are joined by Professor Michael Richardson from Macquarie University, a specialist in ecological psychology...
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