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Episode #107 The Bee Hotel Nobody Designed — Ian Renshaw & Keith Davids Review Woods, Richard, Martin & Cairney (2026)
This month's theory paper review: Ian and Keith dig into Woods, Richard, Martin & Cairney (2026), "Loosening Tightened Logics: A Comment on the Role of Affordances," published in New Ideas in Psychology, 83, 101289 — a paper that never mentions sport, and covers park benches, glass building facades, and a Brisbane street corner that turned itself into a shared garden without anyone designing it that way.
The idea at the centre of it: every training environment sits somewhere on a tight–loose dial. Tight space prescribes its own use — a cone drill, a single technical model, a serve that must…
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