The Constraints Led Fencing Coach
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The Constraints Led Fencing Coach
@coachcarson.bsky.social
Fencing coach, sport educator, practitioner. Curious about why things work.
The kind of skill that is most likely to survive reality is the kind that was cultivated there in the first place.
January 13, 2026 at 7:17 AM
Performance is not a series of neat, linear, logical compartments. It unfolds across time under the pressure of opposition and challenge. When we mistake fencing for a mechanical system, we reach for tidy tools—like the tactical wheel or logic loops - useless in the face of reality.
December 25, 2025 at 9:58 AM
In a poule fight you need to win 55% of the points.
In a DE bout you need to win 51% of the points.
As coaches do we focus on the wins or the losses?
Error is someone else's opinion of what shoulda coulda happen in the past. Building strengths is a positive engagement with a future orientation.
December 25, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Reposted by The Constraints Led Fencing Coach
Episode 7 of The Adaptive Coach Podcast- David Farrokh on Ecological Dynamics, a theory of human motor learning.

open.spotify.com/episode/0JNA...
December 15, 2024 at 8:41 PM
We do like things to look the way we want them to. But “consistency” is about texture, feel, smell and not so much about repeating the same movement over and over like a photocopier. I think of consistency as reliability of function rather than uniformity of form.
December 25, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Kelsey Plum is one of many athletes who implemented CLA, also known as the Constraints-Led Approach, into their training.

Read more on the revolutionary coaching method: http://dlvr.it/TNMbwR
September 29, 2025 at 9:01 PM