Mike Ashford – Show Notes

In this episode I am joined by Mike Ashford. Mike is a PhD student at Leed Beckett University investigating Decision Making in Team Sports, is a Rugby Coach for Harrowgate RFC and Leeds University. Mike talks us through some key theories in decision making and helps us simplify the varied terminoogy and differences of opinion found throughout the area. Mike applies these different theories to practice and outlines his unified conceptual framework for player decision-making in invasion team sports.

Further Reading:

Manipulating constraints to train decision making in rugby union

What makes basketball players continue with the planned play or change it? A case study of the relationships between sense-making and decision-making

Developing team decision-making: a holistic framework integrating both on-field and off-field pedagogical coaching processes

A Communal Language for Decision Making in Team Invasion Sports

Contact Mike:

Twitter: @mashford15

M.Ashford@leedsbeckett.ac.uk