Tom passionately believes in high quality, hands on, coaching expertise. His coaching philosophy is underpinned by evidence based practice using both sound scientific principles and his own applied experiences, which form his coaching, programming, athlete monitoring, testing and delivery.

Tom favours a dynamic systems theory approach to explain how an athlete's muscles and joints coordinate to produce a motor skill. This theory proposes that an athlete is a complex self-organizing system and that changes will occur suddenly in a non-linear fashion. Although athletes have preferred stable movement behaviours (attractors), an athlete has the ability to self-organize to new movement behaviours. These changes occur as a consequence of the athlete interacting with both the environment and elements within the system. 

This explains why Tom then prefers to use a constraints based learning environment to encourage Gaelic footballers and athletes from other sports to explore movement to develop both their skills and physical capacities to optimally perform at the highest level of their sport. 

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