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Interacting constraints and self-organisation tendencies
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Interacting constraints and self-organisation tendencies
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ABSTRACT
Human beings can adapt actions continuously by exploiting inherent movement system self-organisation tendencies, which are available to all biological organisms, such as bird, fish and insects. Tendencies for self-organisation under constraints can be exploited in many dynamic performance contexts. In Newell’s model, interacting constraints have been defined as boundaries or features that shape the form of a complex adaptive system searching for functional states of organisation. Through manipulation of key interacting constraints, more functional patterns of behaviour gradually become more stable over time, and less functional states of system organisation are destroyed. Sport practitioners should allow athletes to gain experience in exploring a variety of task designs, learning how to find performance solutions that are most functional and then continuously refine them through exploiting feedback loops. Complex adaptive systems like athletes and sports teams display these hallmark properties of synergy formation under constraints and sensitivity to surrounding information.