ia Yi graduated from the School of Physical Education (SPE) with Honors in 1999 and was awarded the Gold medal from Singapore Sports Council for being the top Honors student in physical education. He subsequently taught for a few years in a Singapore school before returning to PESS as a lecturer. Jia Yi undertook further postgraduate study and obtained his PhD in the area of Motor Control with the University of Otago, New Zealand from an Overseas Graduate Scholarship (OGS) awarded by NIE. His area of specialisation is in examining multi-articular human movement and learning from a theoretical perspective grounded in Dynamical Systems Theory. He also has experience in the use of 3D motion analysis systems to examine coordination of complex movements in sports such as soccer and table-tennis. His specific research interests includes the investigation of the functional role in movement pattern variability, transitions between movement patterns and coordination changes as a function of skill level as well as practice. He also adopts a Nonlinear Pedagogical approach to understand how the dynamic interaction among constraints in a learning environment can inform practitioners and researchers about practice, instructions and feedback for learning game skills.