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Víctor López Ros trains coaches and teachers, coaches Olympic champions, and has worked at the elite level of team sports. I appreciate that he embodies the very thing he argues is essential for training the professionals of the future: debating and questioning what we so often take for granted… among other things. Now the conversation begins in Catalan. You have the English version in the YouTube video of the episode.Notes of the episodeTactical intentions | Claude BayerFirst Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human | Jeremy DesilvaThe Theory of Communicative Action, Vol 1: Reason & the Rationalization of Society | Jürgen HabermasThe Theory of Communicative Action, Vol 2: Lifeworld & System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason | Jürgen HabermasActs of Meaning | Jerome BrunerActivity Theory of Leontiev | Inter_ECODALPhilosophical Investigations | Ludwig WittgensteinHomenatge als caiguts | Albert Sánchez PiñolThe Empire of Fashion: Dressing Modern Democracy | Gilles LipovetskyALBERT BATALLA | The art and science of teachingUniverso y sentido: En busca del sentido en la inmensidad | Norbert BilbenyLa evolución táctica del fútbol | Martí PerarnauReal Coaching | Joel FilliolExercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding | Daniel E. LiebermanLa resistencia íntima | Josep Maria Esquirol CalafVivir no es tan divertido, y envejecer, un coñazo | Óscar Tusquets 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

Ted Kroeten is the founder of Joy of the People, a non-profit organization that promotes free play as a way to build healthier kids and stronger communities. By simply watching children play, he began to notice what had been lost in the transition from street play to private academies. He discovered the value of free play, how to build sports talent and the secret not of “overload” but of its opposite, “underload”. Fortunately, Ted now shares these insights with the rest of us.Notes of the episodeJoy of the People websiteFitness landscape | WikipediaHomo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture | Johan HuizingaThe Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life | Robert TriversNATÀLIA BALAGUÉ | Biological IntelligenceOrgel’s rules | WikipediaJust respect the essence | Martí CañellasPhilosophical Investigations | Ludwig WittgensteinUniversal Play Grammar | Ted KroetenJuanma Lillo - El mejor libro de táctica y las probabilidades | Fútbol PrácticoStephen Krashen | WikipediaThe Link Between Evolution and Language | Richard Dawkins | TEDBernardo Silva don’t do gym | Out of Context FootballWhy Athletes Don’t “Acquire” Skill—They Adapt it w/ Duarte Araújo | The Adaptable Athlete PodcastPAU CASASSA | Idea Barça 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

Andreu Enrich returns to Fosbury Flop, keeping the bar as high as he left it: connecting genuine ideas and philosophers such as Nietzsche, Heidegger, or Foucault with the figure of the coach. Now, the chapter in Catalan begins; in English, you have the YouTube video of the episode.Notes of the episodeUnpopular opinion of Andreu Enrich | @martict99The art of coaching: a matter of walls and slopes | @JordiLieFCoaching meditations | Andreu EnrichSMALL-SIDED GAMES: How to effectively train your players in variable and complex environments | Andreu EnrichHockey: 50 Tips From Intelligent Players | Andreu EnrichThe Birth of Tragedy | Friedrich NietzscheHomo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture | Johan HuizingaMan, Play and Games | Roger CailloisLes estructures elementals de la narrativa | Albert Sánchez PiñolFragments | HeraclitusOn Nature | ParamenidesCitadelle | Antonie Saint-ExupéryAntifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder | Nassim Nicholas TalebBeing and Time | Martin HeideggerVictus: The Fall of Barcelona | Albert Sánchez PiñolAntoni Gaudí, vida i obra | Armand Puig i TàrrechJAVIER CAÑADA | Training between Ulm and CádizThe Prince | Niccolò MachiavelliPregària a Prosèrpina | Albert Sánchez PiñolDiscipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison | Michel FoucaultSport, Coaching, and Performance | Jim Denison & Zoe AvnerPsychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power | Byung-Chul HanThe Concept of the Political | Carl SchmittFora de classe. Textos de filosofia de guerrilla | Marina GarcésPhenomenology of Perception | Maurice Merleau-Ponty 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

From the very first moment I read about design, I was captivated. Moholy-Nagy said that “designing is not a profession but an attitude of resourcefulness and inventiveness”. Miguel Milá, that it “consists of fulfilling a function while maintaining emotion”. Bruno Munari called it “a method centered around problem-solving”. And Don Norman stated that “the goal is to produce a great product, one that is successful, and that customers love”. I kept wondering to myself: “Doesn’t all this speak to me as a coach?” To explore this connection, I chat with Javier Cañada: someone I dare not classify into any label, adjective, or profession. The conversation is in Catalan. The English version is available in the YouTube video of the episode.Notes of the episodeNewsletter: De Ulm a Cádiz | Javier CañadaLo esencial: Una guía de diseño para la vida | Miguel Milá¿Cómo nacen los objetos? Apuntes para una metodología proyectual | Bruno MunariThe Design of Everyday Things | Donald A. NormanLa pregunta | Javier CañadaSanta Olalla: Una grieta en el destino | Javier CañadaIvrea, 1982 | Javier CañadaLes estructures elementals de la narrativa | Albert Sánchez PiñolThe Book of Tea | Kakuzō OkakuraLo Barroco | Eugeni d’OrsDios lo ve | Óscar TusquetsPrograma Desarrollo Directivo y Liderazgo | Jaime Rodríguez de Santiago, Instituto TramontanaIt’s not you. Bad doors are everywhere | Vox 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

After our first conversation, the authenticity of Albert Batalla led me to define him as the “Michael Johnson of motor skills learning, training... and life”. We met again for a second conversation about the advice he would give to his younger self at the start of his journey as a coach and professor. Next, he shares his answer —in Catalan. You can also know it in English in the YouTube video of the episode.The first episode with Albert Batalla here: ALBERT BATALLA | The art and science of teachingNotes of the episodeJOAN CORTÉS | The coaching geniusEls pagesos | Josep PlaVivir no es tan divertido, y envejecer, un coñazo | Óscar TusquetsMisguided praise junkies | James VaughanEfficient foot motor control by Neymar’s brain | Eiichi Naito & Satoshi HirosePeter principle | WikipediaVictus: The Fall of Barcelona | Albert Sánchez PiñolMonty Python's Life of Brian | Terry Jones 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

Josep Vicenç Mestre masters the art of communication in environments that, at first glance, seem to have little in common. Next, I try to see, in Catalan, what I can learn to apply to my own context. As always, if you would like the English version, you have the YouTube video of the episode.Notes of the episodeJakobson’s functions of language | WikipediaParaules de president. Nació i Estat als discursos de Prat de la Riba, Puig i Cadafalch i Macià | Josep Vicenç Mestre NoguéNació i Estat. L'intent d'encaix entre Catalunya i Espanya (1833-1933) | Josep Vicenç Mestre NoguéJordi Fernández Introduced as Brooklyn Nets Head Coach | Brooklyn Nets2024 Commencement Address by Roger Federer at Dartmouth | DarmouthFamous debate moment: Bush, Sr. checks his watch in 1992 | CBS NewsKennedy vs. Nixon: The first 1960 presidential debate | PBS NewsHourHow to sound smart in your TEDx Talk | Will Stephen | TEDx TalksYour Body Language May Shape Who You Are | Amy Cuddy | TEDThe Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle | Baltasar Gracián 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

The great designer Miguel Milá often said that, during his years of learning, his father would repeat to him: “Be useful and you will be used.” This, I sense, is what Sergi Oliva embodies: someone who took off in Catalonia and landed in the NBA, where he has taken on roles in data analysis, strategy, assistant coach, head coach, and assistant general manager. What follows is my attempt —in Catalan— to figure out his secret. If you want it in English, head over to the YouTube video of the episode.Notes of the episodeJOAN CORTÉS | The coaching geniusJOAN ALCARAZ | Being and doing of a Methodology Director16: Digitalització a l’esport d’elit amb Àlex Terés | Indústria I O TecnologiaThinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel KahnemanThe Unbearable Slowness of Being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s? | Jieyu Zheng & Markus MeisterLa evolución táctica del fútbol | Martí PerarnauANDREU ENRICH | Walls and slopes 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

On the conception of error.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

The labels “coach”, “researcher”, “professor”, “co-designer”… fall short when it comes to describing Maricarmen Almarcha, who was born in Murcia, graduated in Barcelona, and now living in Australia. Aligned with her authenticity: last year, she published not one, but two (!) disruptive PhDs that challenge the status quo of the education field and the one of health and exercise promotion; two fields not as different as society might think. Now starts the conversation in Spanish. The English version, in the YouTube video of the episode.Notes of the episodeEl Quadern Gris | Josep PlaRAÚL GIL | Rethinking the assumptions that govern sport, fitness... and the worldPhD Personalització de les recomanacions d’exercici per a la salut. Perspectiva de la Fisiologia de Xarxes | Maricarmen Almarcha CanoPhD Towards an Embodied and Transdisciplinary Education | Maricarmen Almarcha CanoLeonardo Da Vinci | Walter IsaacsonThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms | Nassim Nicholas TalebSapiens: A Brief History of Humankind | Yuval Noah HarariPersonalizing the guidelines of exercise prescription for health: Guiding users from dependency to self-efficacy | Maricarmen Almarcha, Joachim Sturmberg & Natàlia BalaguéPAU CASASSA | Idea Barça 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

The power of the interaction with what surrounds us.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

Gerard Encuentra is the coach of Hiopos Lleida of the Spanish Endesa League. The saying goes that the “whole” is more than the sum of its “parts”. Gerard Encuentra is the perfect example: season after season, he continues to show that he can make the interaction of the “parts” —his players— come together to form a “whole” —the team—… that few could have imagined. Now, you will hear Gerard’s lessons in Catalan. The English version is available in the YouTube video of the episode.Check the notes, other episodes and related blog posts in https://www.fosburyflop.blog/Notes of the episode:Video Final Four Girona | Força LleidaVideo Play-Off ACB | Magna BrushVictus: The Fall of Barcelona | Albert Sánchez PiñolHerr Pep | Martí PerarnauGerard Encuentra, con MICRÓFONO | ACBVÉRONIQUE RICHARD | Adapt or dieThe Creative Act: A Way of Being | Rick RubinLo esencial: Una guía de diseño para la vida | Miguel MiláTor. 13 cases i tres morts | Carles Porta 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

The rules state that, in football, there are only two positions: those who can touch the ball with their hands and those who cannot. Training, however, often focuses on the latter, while the former, the goalkeepers, are separated from the group with a coach that some call “trainer” and others “entertainer”. With Lluís, Diego, and Manu, we aim to integrate a player that has continuously been isolated from the team. Here starts the conversation in Spanish. The English version is available on the YouTube video of the episode.Notes of the episodeJOAN CORTÉS | The coaching genius My Turn: The Autobiography | Johan CruyffPep Confidential: The Inside Story of Pep Guardiola's First Season at Bayern Munich | Martí PerarnauA Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke | Ronald RengALBERT BATALLA | The art and science of teachingÓSCAR CANO | Essential footballAntifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder | Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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 defense of the intervention of the coach.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

There are coaches who seek empty forms devoid of meaning, and others who pursue functions full of purpose. Some work on “ideal” decontextualized patterns, while others encourage uncertain and adaptive behaviors. Some memorize, store, and implement drills and models mechanistically, while others explore and adapt efficiently to the uniqueness of each context they encounter. The same applies to those in charge of methodology. After all, they are coaches in a different context, with a different label. Joan Alcaraz belongs to the latter group, and he shares how he approaches this as the Methodology Director of RCD Mallorca. Now, the conversation in Spanish. The English version is available on the YouTube video of the episode.Notes of the episodeAluminosis organizacional | Xavier MarcetRadical | Cristopher ZallaThe Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation | Jaques RancièreCoaching meditations | Andreu EnrichDexterity and its development | Nicholai A. BernsteinTraining or Synergizing? Complex Systems Principles Change the Understanding of Sport Processes | Rafel Pol, Natàlia Balagué, Angel Ric, Carlota Torrents, John Kiely & Robert HristovskiTraining or Synergizing? Complex Systems Principles Change the Understanding of Sport Processes | Rafel Pol, Natàlia Balagué, Angel Ric, Carlota Torrents, John Kiely & Robert HristovskiALBERT BATALLA | The art and science of teachingTodo se puede entrenar | Toni Nadal 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

Jorge Sanz is the Sports Director of the Cycling Movistar Team. When he was young, he went to study in Barcelona, where he was greatly impacted by a trainer of football players —not a physical coach— named Paco Seirul·lo. With Jorge, we discuss in Spanish the integration of training in a sport where fragmentation reigns. You know you have to English version in the YouTube video of the episode.Check the notes, other episodes and related blog posts in: fosburyflop.blogNotes of the episodeÓSCAR CANO | Essential footballEl día menos pensado | José Larraza & Marc PonsPlomo en los bolsillos | Ander IzagirreCómo ganar el Giro bebiendo sangre de buey | Ander IzagirreEl entrenamiento en los deportes de equipo | Paco Seirul·loA TRUE RENAISSANCE: Our Tour de France 2024 - Inside the Beehive | Team Visma | Lease a BikeGoiGroup | Arturo Goicoechea 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

Óscar Cano is not a football coach: he is an incredibly sharp person who happens to have chosen to make a positive impact on football teams. Óscar is one of the few who elevates our profession. The beloved Taleb says you should never read a book that can be summarized. Because then, it is not a book. This is exactly how I feel about my conversation with Óscar: it is impossible to describe it. Up next, you can listen to it in Spanish. If you prefer the English version, you have it available in the YouTube video of the episode.Notes of the episode:Juan Belmonte, matador de toros | Manuel Chaves NogalesDel Bayern de Munich al Bayern de Pep | Óscar Cano MorenoAlways think before computing! | Rafel Pol & Natàlia BalaguéJOAN CORTÉS | The coaching geniusÀLEX TERÉS | Thank you for doubtingFour Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals | Oliver BurkemanJORDI FERNÁNDEZ | Questioning methodologiesÓscar Cano: “El sentimiento que hay que desarrollar en el ser humano es el de utilidad, el de la inclusión.” | Pablo BeltránLa frontera invisible | Kilian JornetLa lengua de las mariposas | José Luis Cuerda 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

Adaptation wits from the sideline.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

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 for you.Martí Cañellas | Fosbury FlopNotes of the episodeCoaching meditations | Andreu EnrichCitadelle | Antonie Saint-ExupéryThe Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable | Nassim Nicholas TalebLa Preparación ¿Física? en el fútbol | Rafel PolExploring the Relationship of Declarative Tactical Knowledge With Participation, Football Competence, and Potentiality in a Professional Club (Real Sociedad) | Rubén Sánchez-López, Ibon Echeazarra, Jon Mikel Arrieta & Julen CastellanoSapiens: A Brief History of Humankind | Yuval Noah HarariJORDI FERNÁNDEZ | Questioning methodologies’Visualise tragedies —not commedies’ - A conversation with Andreu Enrich | The Talent Equation PodcastCreativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration | Ed CatmullDirect theory of perception | GibsonTheory of Cooperative-Competitive Intelligence: Principles, Research Directions, and Applications | Robert Hristovski & Natàlia BalaguéDecisiones vitales | Pep MaríSMALL-SIDED GAMES: How to effectively train your players in variable and complex environments | Andreu EnrichHockey: 50 Tips From Intelligent Players | Andreu Enrich 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

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 of the players and coaches who trusted him.Notes of the episodeTransforming Basketball: Changing How We Think About Basketball Performance | Alex SaramaTransforming Basketball websiteAlex Sarama on TwitterLa evolución táctica del fútbol | Martí PerarnauThe Constraints-Led Approach: Principles for Sports Coaching and Practice Design | Ian Renshaw, Keith Davids, Daniell Newcombe & Will RobertsBernstein’s Construction of Movements | Mark L. LatashJOAN CORTÉS | The coaching geniusCRAIG MORRIS | Prepared, not plannedJORDI FERNÁNDEZ | Questioning methodologies 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

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. You have the English version available in the YouTube video of the episode.Check the notes, other episodes and related blog posts in: fosburyflop.blogNotes of the episodeADN Barça | Paco Seirul·loEl mejor libro de táctica y las probabilidades | Juanma Lillo ALBERT BATALLA | The art and science of teachingLa evolución táctica del fútbol | Martí PerarnauWill Coello be the Fosbury of padel?JAMES VAUGHAN | Tell me where you live and I’ll tell you how you playUniversal Play Grammar | Ted KroetenThe Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business | Erin MeyerRange: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World | David EpsteinThe Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation | Jaques RancièreLa preparación física no existe | Paco Seirul·lo & Ángel Cappa 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

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 blog posts in: fosburyflop.blog 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

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 that lead to success regardless of where they are applied or by whom? Isn’t this thought contrary to everything we preach? Are methodologies such as Tactical Periodization or Structured Training sources of empowerment or prisons for the coaches’ thinking and quality? We spend more and more resources on player improvement... but who cares about the coach? Or only players need to learn because we, the coaches, already know everything? Is the methodology of a club a cause or a consequence? These doubts were awakened in me by Jordi Fernández: current Methodology Coordinator of Venezia FC and former member of the Methodology Area of FC Barcelona. Next, you will find his reflections in Spanish; if you want it in English, don’t miss the YouTube video of the episode. Check the notes, other episodes and related blog posts in: fosburyflop.blog 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

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: fosburyflop.blog 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

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 game and chose not to see reality based on his toolbox. He realized that, often, “the more you know, the less you see”, he threw away his toolbox and embraced an ethos of not-knowing to be open to what he found, not to what he was looking for. Craig is Olympic Canoe Slalom Coach for British Canoeing and at Fosbury Flop he tells us how his journey has been.Check the notes, other episodes and related blog posts in: fosburyflop.blog 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

Lost in the search for the perfect designGo 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

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 assumed that someone who has lived so much basketball, in so many different contexts, would give me some certainties, but I have only seen doubts and caution. I guess I must have talked to a good teacher. In a society where doubt is more necessary than ever but seems to weaken... thanks for doubting, Àlex. You can listen the conversation in Catalan; if you want the English version, you know you can find it in the YouTube video of the episode. Check the notes, other episodes and related blog posts in: fosburyflop.blog 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

How to make your players learn because —not in spite— of youGo 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

How to promote —and not hinder— learningGo 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

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 free. Throughout this conversation, we try to give advice for the players, analyze the role of the coach and rethink the principles that govern the sport. Check the notes, other episodes and related blog posts in: https://www.fosburyflop.blog/ 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

My coaching mentors.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

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 thinks. Albert Batalla is a university professor, but you will understand his figure better if I tell you that his authentic ideas make him the Michael Johnson of motor skills learning, training... and life. Now you can listen to his wisdom in Catalan. 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: fosburyflop.blog 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

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 change always helps. Often, her means to achieve it, are environments to encourage athletes to navigate through discomfort and grow psychologically from it. Véronique gives us her lessons as a mental performance consultant of Cirque du Soleil and member of the National Generation 2032. A Coach Program that aims to increase Australian coaches to contribute to future Olympics.Check the notes, other episodes and related blog posts in: https://www.fosburyflop.blog 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

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 you, you’re doing something wrong.” Listen to the conversation to find out how. It is in Catalan, you have it with English subtitles on the YouTube video of the episode.Check the notes, other episodes and related blog posts in: https://www.fosburyflop.blog 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

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 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

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 passionate about his ability to explain with the same principles - phenomena that I would say have nothing in common.Check the notes, other episodes and related blog posts in: https://www.fosburyflop.blog 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

If you see fraud and you don't say fraud, you are a fraudGo to 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

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 court he taught me a criterion for life. During the conversation you will be able to imagine what it was like for me to stumble upon this genius when I was 15 years old.The conversation is in Catalan. You can watch it with English subtitles in the YouTube video of the episode or read the automatic English transcript by clicking on the menu above.Check the notes, other episodes and related blog posts in: fosburyflop.blog 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

A man is not a machineGo to 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

The labels Professor of the National Institute of Physical Education of Catalonia or Founder and Director of Complex Systems in Sport Research Group are too small to describe Natàlia Balagué. She applies complex systems approach to understand human behaviour in sport. From his wisdom have emerged professionals of great caliber, works like Training or Synergizing and Network Physiology of Exercise or books like Biological Intelligence. She doesn’t provide recipes or methodologies but ways of thinking to empower her readers to create their own.This is what she did to me: I was looking for simple answers and she changed my gaze with complex questions. I will be grateful to Natàlia all my life.Check the notes, other episodes and related blog posts in: fosburyflop.substack.com 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

The Soviet Lev P. Matveyev was considered by many an eminence in the global approach to training and periodization theory. The story goes that Stalin asked him what where the most important training principles to beat the Americans in the next Olympics. Matveyev, after investigating, replied that the key was the principle of individuality. This clashed with communism and was not applied as the sport scientist suggested.Wolfgang Schöllhorn trained different German athletes and led them to success with training methods that respected the individuality of each one. Then, with enough evidence, he published his Differential Learning Theory. A learning theory that opposes the repetition of an “ideal” movement based on what the traditional textbooks say. It is about finding performance patterns according to each person’s individuality. Differential Learning Theory is about empowerment. It does not force to produce any movement pattern. It forces to discover yours, it teaches you to constantly adapt.Martí Cañellas | Fosbury FlopCheck the notes, other episodes and related blog posts in: fosburyflop.blog 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

The conversation is in Spanish. You can watch it with English subtitles in the YouTube video of the episode or read the automatic English transcript by clicking on the menu above.AntiCulturista and I are united by the purpose of questioning beliefs —which we consider erroneous— that are normalized throughout society. But, the truth is, we do it from two completely different battle fronts. Avoiding absolute truths, we discuss training points of view and approach problems from two different angles. In times where everything is either good or bad, you're either with me or against me... discussing and questioning things is more necessary than ever. Even if I don’t buy them 100%, there are some of his arguments that few have raised.Martí Cañellas | Fosbury FlopCheck the notes, other episodes and related blog posts in: fosburyflop.blog 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

One plays as one livesGo to 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

John Kiely won the “monkey mind” every human has inside him and broke with all the biases, beliefs, thoughts... that unconsciously and erroneously reigned —and still do— in the world of sport. Unlike many, he does not go against the complexity and uncertainty of the sport, but moves in them like a fish in water. John Kiely is a sports professional with a way of doing things, of thinking... that allows him to treat athletes like people, not like machines. He knows why he does things, “that’s how always has been done” doesn’t go with him. He puts aside Excel and Big Data because he knows how to write down the most relevant information in his notebook. He masters the art of adapting to each context and player in front of him.Having had the honor of speaking with him, I take away the feeling that John Kiely is a very good definition of a coach made person.Martí Cañellas | Fosbury FlopCheck the notes, other episodes and related blog posts in: fosburyflop.blog 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

How do we improve what we can't measure?Go to 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

Manuel Sola —great disseminator about to complexity and sport, among many others— interviews me in his podcast Evolutionary Performance. On it, Manuel connects science, practice and experience to talk about everything that helps you improve your performance, without neglecting your health. The conversation explores the story of a change of perspective towards training and life. I answer the questions of Manuel as best I can, but what I like most is the knowledge he adds to every topic. My favorite one was, talking about the role of the coach. He summarized it saying “we control the stimulus, but not the adaptation.” If you enjoy it a small part of what I did... I am more than satisfied.The conversation is in Spanish. You can watch it with English subtitles in the YouTube video of the episode or read the automatic English transcript by clicking on the menu above.You can check the notes of the episode and related posts on FosburyFlop.substack.com 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

Look at the attached picture below and think about how many actions in a tennis match —or season— are identical. No action is the same: It is not said by Philip or me, Rafa Nadal says it. Well, tennis training has always gone in the opposite direction to this principle. The complexity of the sport has been forgotten and has been trained by breaking it down and repetitively. Philip provides us with the key information so that your training has a real transfer to the game. So that your players can perform thanks to you, not in spite of you.Martí Cañellas | Fosbury FlopCheck the notes, other episodes and related blog posts in: fosburyflop.substack.com 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

How culture impacts how we play. Go to FosburyFlop.substack.com 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