Good question. As I mention, cascades are a broad concept in science and have only recently been applied to psychology with the work of people like Damian Kelty-Stephen and are only just now being brought into sport (I am pushing for this). So there is still a lot of initial and exploratory research going on. This type of analysis has been unbelievably fruitful in things like early diagnosis of developmental disorders and rehabilitation of movement disorders, and I suspect the sport applications will be transformative in time. Cascade modelling fits seamlessly into the constraints-led approach to coaching. It just lets us look at energy flows across nested constraints such as those in conditioned games etc.
So we should understand how one sided game (e.g. a XvX playing through the lines) might be nestled inside a wider scenario in the game of playing out through a press from the back. And how these cascades into each other when manipulating constraints and considering non-physical environmental constraints?
Yes. Basically, the direction of explanation needs to expand outward. If we see a player do something cool we should look at larger scales that event is nested in rather than smaller scales within the performer. And it also implies that we should keep multiple scales intact in training, at least part of the time.
What would you suggest are the implications of how we train players (my question is nested in my role as a grassroots coach)?
Good question. As I mention, cascades are a broad concept in science and have only recently been applied to psychology with the work of people like Damian Kelty-Stephen and are only just now being brought into sport (I am pushing for this). So there is still a lot of initial and exploratory research going on. This type of analysis has been unbelievably fruitful in things like early diagnosis of developmental disorders and rehabilitation of movement disorders, and I suspect the sport applications will be transformative in time. Cascade modelling fits seamlessly into the constraints-led approach to coaching. It just lets us look at energy flows across nested constraints such as those in conditioned games etc.
So we should understand how one sided game (e.g. a XvX playing through the lines) might be nestled inside a wider scenario in the game of playing out through a press from the back. And how these cascades into each other when manipulating constraints and considering non-physical environmental constraints?
Yes. Basically, the direction of explanation needs to expand outward. If we see a player do something cool we should look at larger scales that event is nested in rather than smaller scales within the performer. And it also implies that we should keep multiple scales intact in training, at least part of the time.