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Andreu Enrich has understood it perfectly: he is a COACH, in all caps, with every letter. It does not matter the sport. Because Andreu knows that, both on and off the field, it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, that what is essential is invisible to the eye... or to the whiteboard where many draw technical-tactical arrows. Up next, Andreu shares his authentic perspec

Alex Sarama, Director of Player Development for the Cleveland Cavaliers, invited me to the Transforming Basketball Camp. There, I was able to know how Alex thinks about basketball performance and how Transforming Basketball, the company he leads, helps players, coaches, and organizations make sense of an evidence-based approach: the CLA, Constraints-Led Approach. What I liked the m

Pau Casassa is the technical director of the Barça Academy in Catalonia and around the world. They don’t coach football players, they coach kids who play football. And they do it with a playing idea that does not seek the results at any cost. The Barça idea is the one that brings a team closer to victory exciting the people who practice it, the spectators who observe it. An ide

Tactics do not exist.Go to https://www.fosburyflop.blog/ to check the written version of the episode, its notes and much more content. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fosburyflop.blog/subscribe

Shawn Myszka started training players of the National Football League trying to make them bigger, leaner and stronger. Everything changed the day he asked himself: Are the players performing because of me or in spite of me? He didn’t like the answer and led him to become a Skill Acquisition Specialist for NFL players. In a sport where training is based on dribbling cones and runn

My lighthouse.Go to https://www.fosburyflop.blog/ to check the written version of the episode, its notes and much more content. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fosburyflop.blog/subscribe

In training, we have increasingly accepted that we will never find the perfect technique, because it will depend on the characteristics of the player who executes it in the environment she is in; we are beginning to assume that there will never be a universal collective game model, but that its perfection will depend on the individual and emerging qualities of those who make up the

Ferran Adrià is one of the 100 most influential people in the world. He was the chef at elBulli, 5 times chosen best restaurant in the world. In sporting terms, it is as if Barça had won 10 Champions Leagues in a row and he was the head coach. We met one evening to talk about it at a hotel in Barcelona... the rest is history. It is in Spanish. If you prefer the English version, y

An unpopular opinion about “technique” in sportGo to https://www.fosburyflop.blog/ to check the written version of the episode, its notes and much more content. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fosburyflop.blog/subscribe

Abraham Maslow said that “if the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail”. As coaches, we unconsciously carry a toolbox made up of our favorite ones that condition how we perceive and act in the reality we find ourselves in. As a result, we do not observe reality, but a biased image of it conditioned by what we want to see. Craig Morris beat the