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Spotify | Apple Podcasts | iVoox | YouTube Music | Amazon MusicDavid Cárdenas is a Professor at the University of Granada and a high-level basketball coach. Drawing from his broad perspective —bridging theory and practice, and vice versa— I saw an opportunity to explore the essence of coaching and to question and improve my own criteria. The conversation starts now in Spanish. You can find the English version in the YouTube video of the episode.Notes of the episodeAn alternative analysis of the World Cup – by the man who helped shape Guardiola’s City | Juanma LilloA Propósito de Bernstein: Pensamientos y Reflexiones sobre el Aprendizaje Motor y Deportivo | Luis Miguel Ruiz PerezThinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel KahnemanBlink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking | Malcolm GladwellFlow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience | Mihály CsíkszentmihályiStatements by Duško Ivanović after winning the ACB League title 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

Ivana Rivero works as a researcher and lecturer at the National University of Río Cuarto. One day in 2016, she cast a bottle into the sea with an article inside titled “Play from the Players’ Perspective. Traces in Huizinga and Caillois”. Ten years later, I was fortunate enough to find it. Next, in Spanish, we explore that authentic message. You can find the English version in the YouTube video of the episode.Notes of the episodeEl juego desde los jugadores. Huellas en Huizinga y Caillois | Ivana RiveroDejar jugar de verdad. Buscando una intervención que proteja y enseñe la acción de jugar | Ivana RiveroDimensiones para pensar el juego como práctica de vida saludable y derecho de la infancia | Ivana RiveroJuegos que vienen de antes | Victor PavíaHomo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture | Johan HuizingaLudendo vivere. Filosofía y juego entre Ortega y Gasset y Huizinga | Francesco G. TrottaThus Spoke Zarathustra | Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich Nietzsche: Pensar desde el abismo | Toni LlácerFree to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life | Peter O. GrayThe Usefulness of the Useless | Nuccio OrdineTED KROETEN | The best talent developer is not the coachALBERT BATALLA | The art and science of teaching 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

Jamie Hamilton has built a football perspective by closely observing the game, learning from the best players, and constantly seeking alternatives to keep improving. Today, he shares his perspective with us as we talk about modern football... and try to decipher what the advantages of the future will be.YouTube video: JAMIE HAMILTON | Untapped footballNotes of the episodeJamie Hamilton on MediumLa evolución táctica del fútbol 1863 - 1945: Descifrando el código genético del fútbol de la mano del falso 9 | Martí PerarnauInverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics | Jonathan WilsonLuis Enrique on control | Pau CasassaLuis Enrique on unpredictability | PSG - Paris Saint GermainLuis Enrique on adaptation | Ataque FutboleroA fehér sneaker korszaka | István BeregiJózsef Bozsik on TwitterWHAT IS RELATIONISM? | Jamie Hamilton‘If we pray like a gringo, then we play like a gringo’ | Stephen GibbsBrazil Fizzles Again: the Capitalist Rot at the Heart of Brazilian Football | Brian MierIn a Flight of Starlings: The Wonder of Complex Systems | Giorgio Parisi 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

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