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David 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 episode

An alternative analysis of the World Cup – by the man who helped shape Guardiola’s City | Juanma Lillo

A Propósito de Bernstein: Pensamientos y Reflexiones sobre el Aprendizaje Motor y Deportivo | Luis Miguel Ruiz Perez

Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking | Malcolm Gladwell

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience | Mihály Csíkszentmihályi

Statements by Duško Ivanović after winning the ACB League title

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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 episode

El juego desde los jugadores. Huellas en Huizinga y Caillois | Ivana Rivero

Dejar jugar de verdad. Buscando una intervención que proteja y enseñe la acción de jugar | Ivana Rivero

Dimensiones para pensar el juego como práctica de vida saludable y derecho de la infancia | Ivana Rivero

Juegos que vienen de antes | Victor Pavía

Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture | Johan Huizinga

Ludendo vivere. Filosofía y juego entre Ortega y Gasset y Huizinga | Francesco G. Trotta

Thus Spoke Zarathustra | Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche: Pensar desde el abismo | Toni Llácer

Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life | Peter O. Gray

The Usefulness of the Useless | Nuccio Ordine

TED KROETEN | The best talent developer is not the coach

ALBERT BATALLA | The art and science of teaching

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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 football

Notes of the episode

Jamie Hamilton on Medium

La evolución táctica del fútbol 1863 - 1945: Descifrando el código genético del fútbol de la mano del falso 9 | Martí Perarnau

Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics | Jonathan Wilson

Luis Enrique on control | Pau Casassa

Luis Enrique on unpredictability | PSG - Paris Saint Germain

Luis Enrique on adaptation | Ataque Futbolero

A fehér sneaker korszaka | István Beregi

József Bozsik on Twitter

WHAT IS RELATIONISM? | Jamie Hamilton

‘If we pray like a gringo, then we play like a gringo’ | Stephen Gibbs

Brazil Fizzles Again: the Capitalist Rot at the Heart of Brazilian Football | Brian Mier

In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonder of Complex Systems | Giorgio Parisi

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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 episode

Tactical intentions | Claude Bayer

First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human | Jeremy Desilva

The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol 1: Reason & the Rationalization of Society | Jürgen Habermas

The Theory of Communicative Action, Vol 2: Lifeworld & System: A Critique of Functionalist Reason | Jürgen Habermas

Acts of Meaning | Jerome Bruner

Activity Theory of Leontiev | Inter_ECODAL

Philosophical Investigations | Ludwig Wittgenstein

Homenatge als caiguts | Albert Sánchez Piñol

The Empire of Fashion: Dressing Modern Democracy | Gilles Lipovetsky

ALBERT BATALLA | The art and science of teaching

Universo y sentido: En busca del sentido en la inmensidad | Norbert Bilbeny

La evolución táctica del fútbol | Martí Perarnau

Real Coaching | Joel Filliol

Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding | Daniel E. Lieberman

La resistencia íntima | Josep Maria Esquirol Calaf

Vivir no es tan divertido, y envejecer, un coñazo | Óscar Tusquets

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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 episode

Joy of the People website

Fitness landscape | Wikipedia

Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture | Johan Huizinga

The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life | Robert Trivers

NATÀLIA BALAGUÉ | Biological Intelligence

Orgel’s rules | Wikipedia

Just respect the essence | Martí Cañellas

Philosophical Investigations | Ludwig Wittgenstein

Universal Play Grammar | Ted Kroeten

Juanma Lillo - El mejor libro de táctica y las probabilidades | Fútbol Práctico

Stephen Krashen | Wikipedia

The Link Between Evolution and Language | Richard Dawkins | TED

Bernardo Silva don’t do gym | Out of Context Football

Why Athletes Don’t “Acquire” Skill—They Adapt it w/ Duarte Araújo | The Adaptable Athlete Podcast

PAU CASASSA | Idea Barça

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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 episode

Unpopular opinion of Andreu Enrich | @martict99

The art of coaching: a matter of walls and slopes | @JordiLieF

Coaching meditations | Andreu Enrich

SMALL-SIDED GAMES: How to effectively train your players in variable and complex environments | Andreu Enrich

Hockey: 50 Tips From Intelligent Players | Andreu Enrich

The Birth of Tragedy | Friedrich Nietzsche

Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture | Johan Huizinga

Man, Play and Games | Roger Caillois

Les estructures elementals de la narrativa | Albert Sánchez Piñol

Fragments | Heraclitus

On Nature | Paramenides

Citadelle | Antonie Saint-Exupéry

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder | Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Being and Time | Martin Heidegger

Victus: The Fall of Barcelona | Albert Sánchez Piñol

Antoni Gaudí, vida i obra | Armand Puig i Tàrrech

JAVIER CAÑADA | Training between Ulm and Cádiz

The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli

Pregària a Prosèrpina | Albert Sánchez Piñol

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison | Michel Foucault

Sport, Coaching, and Performance | Jim Denison & Zoe Avner

Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power | Byung-Chul Han

The Concept of the Political | Carl Schmitt

Fora de classe. Textos de filosofia de guerrilla | Marina Garcés

Phenomenology of Perception | Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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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 episode

Newsletter: De Ulm a Cádiz | Javier Cañada

Lo esencial: Una guía de diseño para la vida | Miguel Milá

¿Cómo nacen los objetos? Apuntes para una metodología proyectual | Bruno Munari

The Design of Everyday Things | Donald A. Norman

La pregunta | Javier Cañada

Santa Olalla: Una grieta en el destino | Javier Cañada

Ivrea, 1982 | Javier Cañada

Les estructures elementals de la narrativa | Albert Sánchez Piñol

The Book of Tea | Kakuzō Okakura

Lo Barroco | Eugeni d’Ors

Dios lo ve | Óscar Tusquets

Programa Desarrollo Directivo y Liderazgo | Jaime Rodríguez de Santiago, Instituto Tramontana

It’s not you. Bad doors are everywhere | Vox

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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 teaching

Notes of the episode

JOAN CORTÉS | The coaching genius

Els pagesos | Josep Pla

Vivir no es tan divertido, y envejecer, un coñazo | Óscar Tusquets

Misguided praise junkies | James Vaughan

Efficient foot motor control by Neymar’s brain | Eiichi Naito & Satoshi Hirose

Peter principle | Wikipedia

Victus: The Fall of Barcelona | Albert Sánchez Piñol

Monty Python's Life of Brian | Terry Jones

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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 episode

Jakobson’s functions of language | Wikipedia

Paraules de president. Nació i Estat als discursos de Prat de la Riba, Puig i Cadafalch i Macià | Josep Vicenç Mestre Nogué

Nació i Estat. L'intent d'encaix entre Catalunya i Espanya (1833-1933) | Josep Vicenç Mestre Nogué

Jordi Fernández Introduced as Brooklyn Nets Head Coach | Brooklyn Nets

2024 Commencement Address by Roger Federer at Dartmouth | Darmouth

Famous debate moment: Bush, Sr. checks his watch in 1992 | CBS News

Kennedy vs. Nixon: The first 1960 presidential debate | PBS NewsHour

How to sound smart in your TEDx Talk | Will Stephen | TEDx Talks

Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are | Amy Cuddy | TED

The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle | Baltasar Gracián

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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 episode

JOAN CORTÉS | The coaching genius

JOAN ALCARAZ | Being and doing of a Methodology Director

16: Digitalització a l’esport d’elit amb Àlex Terés | Indústria I O Tecnologia

Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman

The Unbearable Slowness of Being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s? | Jieyu Zheng & Markus Meister

La evolución táctica del fútbol | Martí Perarnau

ANDREU ENRICH | Walls and slopes

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