The Constraints Collective

About The Constraints Collective

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.

Publisher

The Constraints Collective

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Apr 2024

Latest episode

1 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

110 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Oct 2026

   Episode #110 Adam Singer Part One ("The Only Thing We Know Is What We Test"

   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 Keith Davids, to talk with Adam Singer, who has coached mixed martial arts for close to thirty years at SBG Athens (Georgia, USA) and works by day as a biomechanical engineer. Adam's practice runs on a rule borrowed from mentor Matt Thornton: training is either alive, or it isn't —...

2. 

   25 Sept 2026

   Episode #109 The Six-Foot Pink Furry Dice - Ian & Keith's September Monthly Catch-Up

   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 Clive Woodward's six-foot pink furry dice, the story he tells in his own presentations about the England rugby team's 2003 World Cup win and how people can be vulnerable to fads and fancies when they copy and paste without any critical analysis. From there the conversation runs...

3. 

   17 Sept 2026

   Episode 108 Foxy's Long Way Round — Jay Carter on Ryan Fox, Late Specialisation, and the Open

   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 sent after listening to TCC's Güllich episode. Jay's own 2024 interview with Ryan Fox — republished this August after Fox won The Open Championship at Royal Birkdale — became the case study: a New Zealand sporting-royalty kid (father Grant Fox, All Black goal-kicker; grandfath...

Who has been a guest on The Constraints Collective

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Ross Pinder
• Alex Sarama
• Dr Jonathon Headrick
• Albert Deuker

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

16 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 36 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

52

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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