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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