Coaching Falling with Style: Affordances, safety, and skill adaptation with Danny Hatcher

About this episode

Marianne Davies interviews Danny Hatcher about the intersection of sports coaching, ecological psychology, and Deaf awareness.

In this episode of the River Tiger Podcast, host Marianne Davies speaks with Danny Hatcher, whose work sits at the intersection of sports coaching, ecological psychology, Deaf awareness, and technology/AI. Danny introduces his background in strength and conditioning and sports coaching and explains how a seemingly simple example about a table having “affordances” drew him into ecological psychology. He shares his lived experience of being half deaf and half blind, his journey into British Sig...

People in this episode

Host: Marianne Davies

Guest: Danny Hatcher

Topics covered

• sports coaching
• ecological psychology
• Deaf awareness
• technology
• skill adaptation

Keywords

• coaching
• affordances
• safety
• skill adaptation
• Deaf awareness
• ecological psychology
• strength and conditioning

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: British Sign Language, ecological psychology, technology/AI

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