Archive - Tatami’s Substack

Learning Environment vs Performance Environment

Learning, and your class should look messy

Jul 21 •

May 2025

Ukemi Series Part 5: Summary and Goal of the Series

To summarize, we learn how to fall effectively by taking real falls.

May 5 •

Negative Reinforcement

Often misused and misunderstood

May 5 •

April 2025

What's missing from all the Eco vs Drilling Discussions

There is no hybrid approach

Apr 17 •

March 2025

Role of a coach

Think about the how you would teach someone to ride a bike, or to drive a car.

Mar 11 •

February 2025

Ukemi Series Part 4: Longer term examples

In this part I will just include some videos of longer term results of teaching ukemi using the structure I outlined in this ukemi series.

Feb 20 •

January 2025

Ukemi Series Part 3: Class examples and applying the concepts

Edit: I incorrectly called Cortez one of the newer students in this video Rahul.

Jan 29 •

2:16:42

Improve learning by utilizing Desirable Difficulty

For those who listened to Episode 79 of the podcast where we discuss Ecological Approach to Skill Acquisition.

Jan 28 •

Ukemi Series Part 2: Representational Games and Drills used to learn ukemi

Just like Part 1 of the series, the text part of the post is meant to accompany the video.

Jan 24 •

12:24

Ukemi Series Part 1: Anatomy of a Fall and how to teach ukemi for faster and greater motor skill retention.

I might update this post as I find better ways to present the information or discover new things.

Jan 4 •

16:24

November 2024

Internal vs External focus of attention

If you're not familiar with the difference between internal and external focus of attention, then you are missing out.

Nov 26, 2024 •

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