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The Adaptable Athlete PodcastWhat Is Metastability? Making Theory Practical w/ Alan DuntonSend us a text*Checkout the free practice guide at the end of the show notes!Alan Dunton is a lecturer in Coaching Science and Skill Acquisition at Munster Technological University (MTU) in Cork, Ireland. A former Taekwondo athlete and coach, Alan has spent his career exploring how people learn, adapt, and perform skill under dynamic conditions. In this conversation, we unpack metastability — what it means, how to design for it, and why adaptability is the hallmark of expert performance.In This Episode:Alan’s background in Taekwondo and...
2025-10-0858 min
Career WanderlustUnlocking PR Secrets: Alan Dunton on AI, Career Growth, and Surviving Economic DownturnsMeet Alan Dunton, a 25-year communications industry veteran who has navigated everything from the pre-internet era to today's AI-powered future, and discovered that curiosity, authenticity, and strategic relationship-building are the true currencies of career success. This episode will transform how you approach professional growth and redefine what it means to build lasting influence in an ever-changing industry.Guest BioAlan Dunton is an SVP and Partner in the Technology Division at FleishmanHillard, bringing over two decades of expertise from both agency and client-side positions. Named one of Business Insider's top PR professionals in...
2025-08-0827 min
History Is DankDances With Wolves Historical AccuracyDoes this film strike the perfect balance between historical accuracy and artistic liberty? Though Dances with Wolves won best picture in 1990 Strider kicks off this episode by re-casting a different film from 1990 with actors from today. There's also a little quotational trivia in here and of course a Thank call. Strider's Stand Up Special Makin' Memories Sources: imbd.com, wikipedia.org, collider.com, britannica.com, pawneenation.org, “Essential Shakespeare Handbook” Leslie Dunton-Downer and Alan Riding 2013 Dorling Kindersley Limited, rsc.org.uk, myshakespeare.com
2025-07-2250 minHistory Is DankThe Merchant Of Venice With Luke NullLuke Null co-hosts with Strider. The dudes bring multiple new fun segments that are beyond historical as well as a quick dose of Shakespeare. This is a new and improved format of HISTORY IS DANK! Strider's Special Makin' Memories Luke's Instagram: luke_null Sources: “Essential Shakespeare Handbook” Leslie Dunton-Downer and Alan Riding 2013 Dorling Kindersley Limited, shakespeare.org.uk, sparknotes.com, wikipedia.org
2025-02-111h 04
Deans Counsel33: Raj Echambadi (Illinois Tech) on Mission-Driven Leadership: What is Your Why?On this episode of Deans Counsel, moderators Ken Kring and Dave Ikenberry speak with Raj Echambadi, the 10th President (since August 2021) of the Illinois Institute of Technology.From 2017 to 2021, Echambadi served as the Dunton Family Dean of D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. Under his leadership, D’Amore-McKim has become widely recognized for moving beyond traditional business silos and for embracing cross-disciplinary perspectives in both research and teaching. Prior to joining Northeastern, Echambadi served for eight years in various roles, including as the Alan J. and Joyce D. Baltz Professor and the seni...
2024-03-1538 min
The Transforming Basketball PodcastEP18: “Swimming In A Bathtub” How to Make Training Representative of the Game with Alan Dunton In this episode, Alex Sarama interviews Alan Dunton, a lecturer at MTU Cork and expert in contemporary skill acquisition ideas. Alan discusses the importance of variability in basketball training and how coaches can introduce it into shooting drills. He also emphasizes the need to focus on functional movements in warm-ups and explains the concept of meta-stability in skill development. Alan highlights the gap between research and practical application in basketball coaching and suggests ways to bridge that gap.
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2023-11-2430 min
FREEFALLFreeFall 1058 - 7.18.23Mama Terra - Ruptura - The Summoned (Acid Jazz UK)Terrace Martin - Final Thought (feat. Kamasi Washington, Robert 'Sput' Searight & Larry Goldings) - Fine Tune (Sounds Of Crenshaw)Skoota Warner - Noir - Noir (Skoota Warner)Prince - All A Share Together Now (NPG)Nubya Garcia - Lean In (Concord Jazz) Sampha - Spirit 2.0 (Young)HUW - The Night Air - The Lost Buttons (Albert's Favourites)Malcolm Jiyane Tree-o - We're Not Buying It (Dennis Bovell Dub) - Red Hot & Ra: The Remixes (Red H...
2023-07-191h 59
FreeFall w/David BassinFreeFall 1058Mama Terra - Ruptura - The Summoned (Acid Jazz UK)Terrace Martin - Final Thought (feat. Kamasi Washington, Robert 'Sput' Searight & Larry Goldings) - Fine Tune (Sounds Of Crenshaw)Skoota Warner - Noir - Noir (Skoota Warner)Prince - All A Share Together Now (NPG)Nubya Garcia - Lean In (Concord Jazz) Sampha - Spirit 2.0 (Young)HUW - The Night Air - The Lost Buttons (Albert's Favourites)Malcolm Jiyane Tree-o - We're Not Buying It (Dennis Bovell Dub) - Red Hot & Ra: The Remixes (Red H...
2023-07-191h 58
Learning to Fight! Conversations in Combat Skill#38 - 'It takes two to Tango' - Professor Alan Dunton on 'information rich' training practice to develop metastability.Send us a textProfessor Alan Dunton is back. Alan is a lecturer and researcher at MTU Cork, Ireland. With a PhD in Skill Acquisitor and having been a long time martial artist himself and a National TKD team competitor, Alan is well informed on both the theory and practical sides of the sport and training. Alan and I discuss developing metastability. Metastability occurs when an athlete is able to maintain a stable position or movement pattern while simultaneously having the flexibility and adaptability to respond and adjust to a highly dynamic environment and conditions (Th...
2023-05-181h 02
Talking PerformanceEp 119 - Review #6 with Carl Woods, Alan Dunton & Philip O'CallaghanThis review is a focus on Skill Acquisition with 3 great guests, Carl Woods, Alan Dunton and Philip O'Callaghan.Each episode was great in their own right and I would encourage you to check them out if you haven't already listened to them... or even if you have. Carl is episode 102, Alan 112 and Philip 106.I hope you enjoy this review and it would be great if you could share the podcast and leave a review where ever it is that you listen. Send us a textSupport the show...
2023-03-1344 minTalking PerformanceEp 112 - Alan Dunton (Skill Acquisition)This week I am joined by Alan DuntonAlan has a PhD in Skill Acquisition and is a lecturer at MTU Cork in Coaching Science. He was an athlete himself reaching a very high level in Tae Kwon Do.I have followed Alan on Twitter for quite some time and enjoyed how he sees the world and there were a couple of moments in this chat where I had light bulbs go off because of the way he explained some complex topics in lovely simple and succinct ways.As always I hope you...
2022-12-0459 min
Discover The Full Audiobook Everyone Is Talking About — So Inspiring!Shakespeare by Leslie Dunton-Downer, Alan RidingPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/140024to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Shakespeare
Author: Leslie Dunton-Downer, Alan Riding
Narrator: Charles Armstrong
Format: mp3
Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
Release date: 10-25-22
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 1 rating
Genres: Shakespeare
Publisher's Summary:
Unravel the history, themes, and language of Shakespeare's plays, poems, and sonnets with this beautiful guide to his life and works. Comedy and romance, history, and tragedy, Shakespeare's canon has it all. Some 400 years after they were written and first performed, his works remain fresh and relevant today. Shakespeare: his life and works is an accessible and lavish celebration of the...
2022-10-257h 26
Get Hooked On A Breakthrough Full Audiobook On Your Commute.Shakespeare: His Life and Works by Leslie Dunton-Downer, Alan RidingPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/140133to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Shakespeare: His Life and Works
Author: Leslie Dunton-Downer, Alan Riding
Narrator: Charles Armstrong
Format: mp3
Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
Release date: 10-20-22
Ratings: Not rated yet
Genres: Shakespeare
Publisher's Summary:
Comedy and romance, history, and tragedy, Shakespeare's canon has it all. Some 400 years after they were written and first performed, his works still remain fresh and relevant today. Shakespeare: His life and Works is an accessible and lavish celebration of the Bard himself and his 39 plays, great sonnets and narrative poems. Themes, plots, characters and language are brought...
2022-10-207h 26
SOLARThe Anniversary Party | Episode 5The Aethon crew celebrate the first year of their mission since launching. From CurtCo Media. To learn more, visit solarthepodcast.com ------------ Starring Stephanie Beatriz, Alan Cumming, Helen Hunt, Jonathan Bangs, Jenny Curtis, Colin Ford, Danielle Pinnock, and Anne Yatco. With Nikhil Pai, Julia Henning, Dana Gourrier, Micky Shiloah, Jake Millgard, Joe Reitman, Tom Choi, Emily Goss, Joy Brunson, Jenny Curtis, John McCormick and Mari Weiss. Created by Chris Porter Directed by Jenny Curtis and Chris Porter Sound Design, Mixing and Mastering by CJ Drumeller...
2022-04-1942 min
The Perception & Action PodcastMovement & Skill Acquisition Ireland Webinar Series 2022My interview with Phil Kearney and Alan Dunton from MSAI discussing their 2022 Webinar series: Applying skill acquisition in different domains. Links: https://twitter.com/MSAIreland More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc) Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google Support the podcast and receive bonus content Credits: The...
2022-02-1631 minThe Perception & Action PodcastMovement & Skill Acquisition Ireland Webinar Series 2022My interview with Phil Kearney and Alan Dunton from MSAI discussing their 2022 Webinar series: Applying skill acquisition in different domains. Links: https://twitter.com/MSAIreland More information: http://perceptionaction.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc) Subscribe in iOS/Apple Subscribe in Anroid/Google Support the podcast and receive bonus content Credits: The...
2022-02-1631 minLearning to Fight! Conversations in Combat Skill#17B - Context is King! PART 2. Dr. Alan Dunton, on moving along the continuum of representativeness.Send us a textToday's guest brings both a practical and theoretical perspective to skill development in marital arts.Dr. Alan Dunton is a former Irish National TKD team competitor and now a researcher and lecturer at Cork institute of technology. Alan received his PhD in Skill Acquisition under the guidance of former guest, professor Ed Coughlan. (aka. Dr SkillAcq) .I really clicked with Alan and we went down several rabbit holes and discussed a whole lot of different aspects of training and skill development. Alan is advocate and proponent of a m...
2022-01-3149 min
Teaching Martial Arts by Combat LearningSimulating Competition, Using Points in Constraints-led Training, & Predictive vs. Prospective Motor Control w/ Alan DuntonJoin the email list now: combatlearning.com/newsletter---Today I'm joined by Alan Dunton, a PhD in skill acquisition, human performance specialist, and lecturer at TUDublin. He also has a background in ITF taekwondo.In this episode, we discuss a couple important studies done on self-organization and how to simulate a more realistic level of anxiety to competition. Then we discuss how the point system for sport taekwondo can be manipulated to aid constraints-led training of specific tactics without over-constraining learners. Finally, we clear up how to understand the difference between predictive and prospective control...
2022-01-281h 28Learning to Fight! Conversations in Combat Skill#17A - Context is King! Dr. Alan Dunton, on moving along the continuum of representativeness.Send us a textToday's guest brings both a practical and theoretical perspective to skill development in marital arts.Dr. Alan Dunton is a former Irish National TKD team competitor and now a researcher and lecturer at Cork institute of technology. Alan received his PhD in Skill Acquisition under the guidance of former guest, professor Ed Coughlan. (aka. Dr SkillAcq) .I really clicked with Alan and we went down several rabbit holes and discussed a whole lot of different aspects of training and skill development. Alan is advocate and proponent of a mo...
2022-01-261h 08
Rugby Coach WeeklyRoundup Rodeo Ep61: Reviewing the best contentSend us a textHost Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. This week's guests: Tim Jones, director of The Developer Tribe, Stirling Ladies University Football Club, PhD student at Stirling University and Chris Jones, private tutor with Core Learning Tutoring in Jersey, former primary school teacher and mental health first aider. The team pick out the key takeaways from each piece of great content and discuss how it can be applied to coaching. This week's content:Call...
2021-09-261h 30
The FallowersEp 46 - Dr Alan Dunton. Skill Acquisition. Utilising Constraints To Enhance Coaching. Agility Or Change Of Direction. Occlusion GogglesThis week we welcomed on Dr Alan Dunton who is a lecturer in Skill Acquisition at Technological University Dublin. Alan completed his PhD on Occlusion or "Head Up" Goggles. We discussed what constraints are, different types of constraints and how we can sue them to enhance our coaching practices. We also spoke about the importance of "Why" we are using certain constraints or activities and the difference between Agility and Change Of Direction.
2021-06-131h 26
TKDCoach AcademyHow To Improve Sparring Skills - What The Science & Research SaysIn this episode TKDCoach Academy's Richie & Adrian discuss skill acquisition with PHD researcher and former Taekwon-Do competitor, Alan Dunton. This is a great chat about how to set up your training and approach to developing real Taekwon-Do ITF Sparring skills. How to go from "the drills aren't working when we go sparring" to "that's something we have been working on in training".
2020-04-141h 19
The Talent Equation PodcastBuilding the bridge between theory and practice - A reflective conversation with Movement Skill Acquisition IrelandThis week I get together with 3 of the organisers of the Movement Skill Acquisition Ireland conference, Phil Kearney, Olly Logan and Alan Dunton along with 2 of the speakers from the event, Keith Davids and Nick Winkleman to reflect on what has happened in the world of coaching and skill acquisition since the first event 2 years ago. In this episode we explore the ways in which coaching has evolved and is now embracing much more skill acquisition theory in day to day conversation. We also reflect on the ways that coaches and researchers are working together to improve the...
2020-03-251h 39