Tatami’s Substack

Survivorship Bias

Don't just study those who are successful, also study those who have failed

Oct 8 • 

Tatami Talk

July 2025

Learning Environment vs Performance Environment

Learning, and your class should look messy

Jul 21 • 

Tatami Talk

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May 2025

April 2025

What's missing from all the Eco vs Drilling Discussions

There is no hybrid approach

Apr 17 • 

Tatami Talk

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March 2025

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 • 

Tatami Talk

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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 • 

Tatami Talk

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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 • 

Tatami Talk

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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 • 

Tatami Talk

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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 • 

Tatami Talk

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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 • 

Tatami Talk

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