Dr Alex Lascu (she/they) is a skill acquisition amateur (lover of) and currently researches at the University of Canberra. Her passion for talent development and community sport is contagious, and she enjoys existing in the gap between research and practice in the hopes of bringing these two worlds together.
Yleia (they/them) has a dual Bachelors in Sport Science and Psychology and completed their Honours project in mental fatigue in 2021. They are currently working on getting their thesis published and easing their way back into academia after a year of working in sports administration.
Tongue Twisters: Exploring the Etymology of Existing Terminology
We dare you to say the title of this episode three times fast. (Go on, you know you want to.) If the title wasn't enough of a hint, it's about to get very word-nerdy over here.
In this episode, we break down blurry terminology with the help of Johnston and colleagues' (2023) paper, Language games and blurry terminology: Can clarity enhance athlete development? (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspor.2023.1150047/full)
But don't be fooled by us geeking out over words! We do somehow transition from the dictionary to the field as we dissect semantics and etymology while discussing the importance of meaning and intention, not just as academics, but as coaches as well.
24 Mar 2024
Offroad Cycling
We're back with the March episode of Paper by Paper!
In this episode, we attempt to unpack expertise, which we think is best summarised by the following exchange-
Alex: What does expertise mean to you?
Yleia: Do I look at it as a player, a coach, or an academic?
Turns out, we got through all of those with some help from Chapter 4 (written by M.R. Wilson, J. Causer, & J. Vickers) and Chapter 25 (written by I. Renshaw & A. Gorman) of the Routledge Handbook of Sport Expertise edited by J. Baker & D. Farrow (2015, 1st Ed).
With a healthy dose of segues (bonus points if you can tell us what our running tally is for spin-off podcast ideas), TV show references, and memes, we manage to talk our way around expertise and settle on a few nuggets of wisdom. (Maybe. I mean, we've never claimed to be the experts on anything here.)
28 Jan 2024
The Gorilla in the Room
Welcome back folks! We have learned our lesson, and this episode was recorded from the safety of our little WFH setups. Never recording outdoors ever again, the vibes are not worth it.
In this episode, we discuss the concept of inattentional blindness. This is a rabbit hole that Yleia has found themselves in recently, and its the perfect backdrop for many coaching conversations like direct instruction, yelling from the sidelines etc. We were amazed by the original authors' approach to the paper, you'll find it here: The dark side of visual awareness in sport: Inattentional blindness in a real-world basketball task (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20601714/)
Also, incredibly conveniently, Shane Pill dropped a brilliant blog post about the topic just days before we recorded it! Check it out: INATTENTIONAL BLINDNESS AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR SPORT COACHING PRACTICE (https://learningthroughsport.blogspot.com/2024/01/inattentional-blindness-and-what-it.html)
24 Dec 2023
Pitch Like Max
It's that time of year again, folks - that's right, it's time for another episode of 'Paper by Paper: A Sports Research Playbook'!
In this episode, we discuss observational learning and nonlinear pedagogy, touching on some textbook examples from Chapter 5 of the 'Nonlinear Pedagogy in Skill Acquisition' textbook by Chow et al. (2015, 1st Ed).
Sound warning: We recorded this ep outside and the wind was truly against us. Apologies for the loud wind noises that might pop up throughout the episode!
We hope you enjoy this episode, and wish you all a safe and restful holiday.
Host note from Alex re: their quote-
Dr Paula Silva talks about how you can actually make people worse by taking away opportunities to explore what they're capable of through movement in this snip from the River Tiger podcast: https://share.snipd.com/snip/e6cb93fa-1148-461c-88be-66f95bb2f244
Host note from Yleia re: the release date of this podcast-
The hold up with the episode was my bad, folks! My new year's resolution is not to make a habit of releasing our episodes only before Christmas lol
Additional host note from Yleia re: the release date of 'A League of Their Own'-
Yes, I was completely off-target; the original 'A League of Their Own' movie came out in 1992.
30 Apr 2023
Great Expectations
It was such a pleasure to host our first guest on the podcast, welcome Darcey Johnson! Now I (Alex) must admit that this started as a selfish invite to fulfil a coaching dream of mine - to hear my coaching philosophy as described by an athlete I've coached. But as we chatted, I learned so much from Darcey about expectations, processes, goal setting, and wholehearted coaching. I hope you love this ep half as much as I do, my heart is very full right now 🖤
24 Dec 2022
Rules vs Principles
It's the holiday gift that you've all been waiting for: another episode of 'Paper by Paper: A Sports Research Playbook'!
In this episode, we discuss the difference (and relationship) between rules and principles with guidance from McKay and colleagues' (2021) paper "An ecological insight into the design and integration of attacking principles of play in professional rugby union: a case example".
We talk dictionary definitions, distinctions, and unpack some practice design examples in other sports.
Thanks for listening to Paper by Paper! May you all have a restful and gentle holiday, and we'll see you in the new year.
3 Oct 2022
The Ball Kids
Welcome to Episode 1 of the Paper by Paper podcast! In this episode, we set the tone for the series by exploring sport science as an art of inquiry, as described by Woods and colleagues (2022) in their paper “Thinking through making and doing.”
We explore our 'science as biography' and how we've come to see the world, and weave the story of the paper through our own experiences with sport and science. We discuss the analogy of researchers as spectators in a stadium, and applied practitioners as 'the ball kids', somewhere between the team on the ground competing and the stands, contributing in occasionally helpful ways without interfering.
Host Note from Yleia re their use of notational analysis: credit to my supervisors (Dr Jocelyn Mara & Dr Kristy Martin) for recognising the need to develop notational analysis that could capture the context of technical skills to consider how mental fatigue influences skill execution
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