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 perspective to us in Catalan. If you’re interested in the English version, the YouTube video of the episode is waiting...

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 most, however, wasn’t any scientific theory or basketball task; it was Alex's constant dedication to the learning...

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 idea to train football that can transform lives, that makes Barça more than a Club. Pau explains it to us in Catalan....

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 running ladders as fast as possible... Shawn brings some sanity and hope. Check the notes, other episodes and related...

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 group. Why, then, do we continue to seek and monetize supposedly perfect, universal and absolute methodologies...

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, you can watch the YouTube video of the episode. Check the notes, other episodes and related blog posts in:...

An unpopular opinion about “technique” in sport Go to https://www.fosburyflop.blog/ to check the written version of the episode, its notes and much more content. Get full access to FOSBURY FLOP at 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 game and chose not to see reality based on his toolbox. He realized that, often, “the more you know, the less you...

Lost in the search for the perfect design Go to https://www.fosburyflop.blog/ to check the written version of the episode, its notes and much more content. Get full access to Fosbury Flop at www.fosburyflop.blog/subscribe

Oscar Tusquets explains that when he was very young he learned that, when faced with a question for which they did not have a clear answer, only good teachers responded: "Well, I have to admit that I don't know.” The bad ones never recognized it. Àlex Terés has been linked to basketball in multiple ways: as a coach of Catalan teams, of the American G-League, of lower categories in clubs such as FC Barcelona (for which he is now responsible of the youths teams) or individual technique coach. I...

How to make your players learn because —not in spite— of you Go to https://www.fosburyflop.blog/ to check the written version of the episode, its notes and much more content. Get full access to Fosbury Flop at www.fosburyflop.blog/subscribe

How to promote —and not hinder— learning Go to https://www.fosburyflop.blog/ to check the written version of the episode, its notes and much more content. Get full access to Fosbury Flop at www.fosburyflop.blog/subscribe

This is the conversation I had with Bernat Cardenas for The Padel Row, a padel coaching project to help every player whatever their level. Padel is still surrounded by an infinite number of incomprehensible mechanistic beliefs. The current way of training and understanding padel is not consistent with its true essence. The best Brazilian footballers become stars playing in the street, but in padel it seems that one must first learn “correct” and closed movements to then be able to play and be...

My coaching mentors. Go to https://www.fosburyflop.blog/ to check the written version of the episode, its notes and much more content. Get full access to Fosbury Flop at www.fosburyflop.blog/subscribe

The sprinter Michael Johnson had a singular running “technique”. That didn’t stop him from winning 9 world championships and 4 Olympic golds. One day, a journalist asked him: “Do you think that if you had run like the other sprinters you would have been a better athlete?” And he, very smart, answered: “If I had run like them I would have become one of them.” The best version of oneself is achieved when one has the courage to enhance one’s virtues even if it is challenging what the whole herd...

Evolution depends on adaptation: those who best adapt to their environment survive. If you have an adaptive advantage, you have a better chance of surviving and passing it on. Sometimes these advantages are achieved by those who are different, those who have undergone a mutation compared to the majority. In nature... but also in sport. Véronique Richard is an expert in performance psychology and teaches us to be more adaptable to our sporting environment and creative, because being ready to...

Carlota Torrents is a professor at the National Institute of Physical Education of Catalonia and a member of the Complex Systems in Sport research group. With her doctoral thesis, Carlota was one of the pioneers in bringing dynamical systems theory to training. She has published dozens of articles on creativity, complexity, and movement, and recently published one of the most educational books I’ve ever read. I love one of her key principles as a teacher is: “If your students don’t surprise...

Following Fosbury's example, we can study the path of Arturo Coello to become world's N1 padel player. Go to https://www.fosburyflop.blog/ to check the written version of the episode, its notes and much more content Get full access to Fosbury Flop at www.fosburyflop.blog/subscribe

Robert Hristovski is an experienced professor of Sports Science in Ss. Cyril and Methodius University. He has carried out research on DST, echological dynamics, complex systems approach... among many others. In fact, when I hear the following quote I think of him: “As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully choose his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.” I am...

If you see fraud and you don't say fraud, you are a fraud Go to FosburyFlop.blog to check the written version of the episode, its notes and much more content Get full access to Fosbury Flop at www.fosburyflop.blog/subscribe

One of Joan’s characteristic phrases is: “We will never capture basketball.” As coaches, we often try to over-control the game, anticipate it, decide what will happen... but we always end up behind. I feel the same about his wisdom. No matter how hard I try, I will always be behind. Joan Cortés is a unique coach, pedagogue, teacher, father, mentor, professor, thinker... Sometimes, he is called crazy just because he is ahead of our time. I met Joan in a basketball coaching course... and on the...

A man is not a machine Go to FosburyFlop.blog to check the written version of the episode, its notes and much more content Get full access to Fosbury Flop at www.fosburyflop.blog/subscribe