Are you a coach passionate about young lives?'The Play Their Way' is the new podcast you didn't know you needed.Curious? Listen to host Laura-Jane Jones explain why you should be tuning in.To start listening, search for the 'Play Their Way' podcast in all your usual favourite podcast places.Led by the Children’s Coaching Collaborative – a collective of 17 like-minded organisations, including UK Coaching, Sport England, UNICEF UK and Mind – Play Their Way aims to kick-start a movement of child-first coaches, organisations and people changing the game from the ground up.If you're curious about the movement, check out the Play Their Way website at www.playtheirway.org.You can also follow Play Their Way on social media: @playtheirway on TikTok, X, and LinkedIn, and @playtheirwayuk on Facebook and Instagram. 

Cal Jones is a judo coach based in North Wales. He recently completed his master’s thesis looking at Representative Learning Design in judo, including developing a tool to help coaches identify how representative their practice design is. In this podcast, UK Coaching Senior Coach Developer Marianne Davies speaks with him about representative learning design and how it can help us to design, structure, and adapt our practice sessions to support skill acquisition.Cal gives us some examples of what this might look like in practice using examples to illustrate the two main parts of representativeness.* What the participant is interacting with (other people, environment) – Functionality.* Are the techniques and decision-making the same as seen in practice – Action Fidelity.Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

Georgia Askew works as a Skill Acquisition specialist for Paralympics Australia while also pursuing a PhD at Queensland University of Technology. In this podcast, Georgia joins UK Coaching Senior Coach Developer Marianne Davies sharing examples from her practice and research on how skill development principles can benefit not only elite para-sport athletes but also everyone.One of Georgia’s mantra’s is ‘Just because it has always been done that way, doesn’t mean it needs to be done that way.’ She explains that when working in elite parasport it is important to spend time connecting with and learning about everyone. Empathy, strong relationships, and understanding what is going on for participants in the context of their wider environment is critical for being successful as a skill acquisition specialist.Georgia highlights the importance of individualised, non-linear journeys that facilitate the experiences and opportunities to grow in ways that relevant to the participants at the right time.Her top tips include:* Connect to the individual first and be creative and innovative.* Work across the whole team if possible (coaches, participants, coach developers, strength coaches, etc.)* Record everything you do; session plans, practice adaptions, post coaching reflections, and reflective discussions. Try to find ways to reflect that work for you.* Don’t worry if practice looks chaotic or ugly at times. If you are paying attention to what you are doing and the results you are getting, you’ll start to understand what works and recognise improvements over time.Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

In this podcast, Mark O'Sullivan (Head of Youth Development for under 8-12 year olds) at AIK Ungdomsfotbolls) discusses his work in youth development at AIK as well as his PhD research with UK Coaching Senior Coach Developer Marianne DaviesDuring the conversation Mark discusses a variety of topics, including why learning is non-linear and what this means for coaching. The implications of non-linear development on athlete development frameworks, and why he wants ‘as many as possible, as long as possible in an as good environment as possible’ in the AIK youth academy.Some key points Mark covers are:* How do we learn to ask better questions?* What is our understanding of the learner and the learning process?* Does the notion of the nonlinearity of learning challenge many of these ages and stages models?Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

Professor Ian Renshaw discusses with UK Coaching Senior Coach Developer Marianne Davies his coaching and academic background, as well as the development of the constraints-led approach to designing practice.In this podcast Ian:* uses numerous real-world examples from rugby and cricket to illustrate his points and bring them to life* emphasises the significance of intention and understanding what you want to achieve as a coach* delves into the components of skilled performance, such as honing observation skills, effecting change at the subconscious level, and the significance of motivation.Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

Are you interested in creating a connection with the people you coach? Would you like to build empathy, encourage risk-taking and create memories with those in your care? If so then this podcast will be a great start. Professional Storyteller Clare Murphy shares so much in this podcast, explaining how the brain responds to story, our history with it as humans, and how coaches and the people who support them can use it to galvanise and inspire the people they are working with.Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

Coaching Development Manager at The Premier League Scott McNeill shares his coaching journey - developing coaches at Great Britain Hockey and the transition from hockey to working in football.Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

Author Todd Hargrove shares his experience and understanding of skill acquisition in supporting functional and pain free movement.Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

Podcast with Dr Will Roberts and Danny Newcombe. Will and Danny explore the subject of skill acquisition and putting theory into practice for children through to elite athletes. Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

Coach of elite head coaches Cody Royle and UK Coaching Coach Programme and Pathway Manager Tom Hartley talk about the challenging role of being a head coach, and explore a selection of the 'seven hard truths about head coaching' from Cody's book, The Tough Stuff. As well as understanding more about the head coach role, Cody shares some of the principles that underpin his approach to being an effective coach developer. Consider how this podcast might support your views on coaching and coach development. Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

Podcast with Tyler Yearby discussing how and why we need to think about skill acquisition for strength and conditioning and not just for movement coordination and on the field practice. Yearby is co-director of education at Emergence, a sport movement, skill and education company. Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

Doug Lemov, author of 'Teach Like a Champion' and 'The Coach's Guide to Teaching', talks about effective coaching. Lemov shares his expertise with UK Coaching Coach Programme and Pathway Manager Tom Hartley on practice design for learning, effective feedback, observation and a wide range of other topics relating to coaching practice. When listening to this podcast, consider what this would mean for your practice as a coach, and someone who creates learning environments for other coaches? Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

Podcast with Dr James Rudd, researcher and practitioner in physical literacy, and Jiani Ma, a PhD student researching the application of fundamental movement skills into practice. Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

In this Coach Developer Podcast, Dr Peter Olusoga discusses the importance of coach self-care. The chartered psychologist, senior lecturer in psychology at Sheffield Hallam University and host of the Eighty Percent Mental podcast, which looks at the mental side of sport performance, outlines the key elements of a self-care first aid kit, including self-awareness, self-compassion and vulnerability. Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

Senior Coach Developer Marianne Davies shares a conversation with Lesley McKenna, a 3 x Olympic snowboarder and programme manager at GB Snowsport. With climbing and skateboarding debuting at the Tokyo Olympic Games, McKenna explores the impact becoming an 'Olympic sport' will have on the coaches and coach development workforce. Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

Senior Coach Developer Marianne Davies speaks with skill acquisition specialist, co-founder of Movement & Skill Acquisition Ireland and Senior Lecturer at Munster Technological University Dr Ed Coughlan. In the discussion, Dr Coughlan reveals how to design coaching sessions to help participants and athletes retain learning - before it's then transferred to a performance environment. Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

Conversation with Language of Coaching author and Head of Athletic Performance at the Irish Rugby Football Union Nick Winkelman. In this podcast, Nick introduces the power of language to support skill acquisition and provides loads of practical examples for coaches to get their teeth stuck into. Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

Learning Scientist Megan Sumeracki joins Senior Coach Developer Tom Hartley and Modern Learning Officer Mark Scott to talk about the principles of effective learning. In this hour long podcast, we explore retrieval practice, spaced learning and interleaving, and consider what these mean for coaches looking to maximise their practice design and experience for their athletes. Head to ukcoaching.org to access a visual guide to help you make sense of these learning principles and consider how you might apply them in your own practice as a coach or coach developer. Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

Podcast with Dr James Stafford, who works at neurotechnology company INCISIV as a business development lead, about how perception and action are constantly being calibrated. This podcast explores how we calibrate our movement and how coaches can support skill development and (re)calibration especially during periods of growth, development, aging, time off and injury. Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

Kirk Vallis, Head of Creative Capability at Google shares with us his principles for creative problem-solving. In this discussion, Kirk shares five scenarios with UK Coaching Senior Coach Developer Tom Hartley that people who support coaches might encounter and explores a range of ways for creating "one more option". Head to ukcoaching.org to access a complementary graphic to help you navigate the conversation and consider how some of Kirk's principles might play out in your own environment. Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.