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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