FOSBURY FLOP
Episodes
ALBERT BATALLA | Advice to a younger coaching self
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After our first conversation, the authenticity of Albert Batalla led me to define him as the “Michael Johnson of motor skills learning, training... ...
JOSEP VICENÇ MESTRE | Communication of giants
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Cat...
SERGI OLIVA | The role player
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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.” T...
A bad weed never dies...
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
MARICARMEN ALMARCHA | The connectivity of training, health and school
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The labels “coach”, “researcher”, “professor”, “co-designer”… fall short when it comes to describing Maricarmen Almarcha, who was bo...
Mattresses to change history [2nd edition]
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 muc...
GERARD ENCUENTRA | Prophet in his own land
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
MANU SOTELO, LLUÍS BERNAT & DIEGO RIVAS | Football players who can touch the ball with their hands
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
What is in the room?
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
JOAN ALCARAZ | Being and doing of a Methodology Director
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There are coaches who seek empty forms devoid of meaning, and others who pursue functions full of purpose. Some work on “ideal” decontextualized p...
JORGE SANZ | Can we integrate cycling training?
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
ÓSCAR CANO | Essential football
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 i...
On the dexterity of the coach
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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. Th...
ANDREU ENRICH | Walls and slopes
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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, bot...
ALEX SARAMA | Transforming Basketball, training... and the world
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Sarama, Director of Player Development for the Cleveland Cavaliers, invited me to the Transforming Basketball Camp. There, I was able to know how...
PAU CASASSA | Idea Barça
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 wh...
Shadows or lines, that is the question
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 publi...
SHAWN MYSZKA | How we see movement behavior in sport
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Shawn Myszka started training players of the National Football League trying to make them bigger, leaner and stronger. Everything changed the day he a...
The Synergizing No-Nos
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 episo...
JORDI FERNÁNDEZ | Questioning methodologies
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In training, we have increasingly accepted that we will never find the perfect technique, because it will depend on the characteristics of the player ...
FERRAN ADRIÀ | Unlabelable
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 spor...
Why call it iatrogenics if we can call it “technique training”? [2nd edition]
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An unpopular opinion about “technique” in sportGo to https://www.fosburyflop.blog/ to check the written version of the episode, its notes and much...
CRAIG MORRIS | Prepared, not planned
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 to...
Hotel Fosbury Flop
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 cont...
ÀLEX TERÉS | Thank you for doubting
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Teaching to learn
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 n...
Learning to teach
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
THE PADEL ROW INTERVIEW | Debating the padel training principles
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 st...
The best question I have ever been asked
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
ALBERT BATALLA | The art and science of teaching
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The sprinter Michael Johnson had a singular running “technique”. That didn’t stop him from winning 9 world championships and 4 Olympic golds. On...
VÉRONIQUE RICHARD | Adapt or die
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Evolution depends on adaptation: those who best adapt to their environment survive. If you have an adaptive advantage, you have a better chance of sur...
CARLOTA TORRENTS | Muse of creativity
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Carlota Torrents is a professor at the National Institute of Physical Education of Catalonia and a member of the Complex Systems in Sport research gro...
Will Coello be the Fosbury of padel?
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
ROBERT HRISTOVSKI | Complexity science & Sport
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Hristovski is an experienced professor of Sports Science in Ss. Cyril and Methodius University. He has carried out research on DST, echological...
Status quo protectors, you are a fraud
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
JOAN CORTÉS | The coaching genius
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of Joan’s characteristic phrases is: “We will never capture basketball.” As coaches, we often try to over-control the game, anticipate it, d...
Head back to the factory, Taylor
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
NATÀLIA BALAGUÉ | Biological Intelligence
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The labels Professor of the National Institute of Physical Education of Catalonia or Founder and Director of Complex Systems in Sport Research Group a...
WOLFGANG SCHÖLLHORN | Making the player adaptable, not dependent
29 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
PEDRO FROM ANTICULTURISTA | Same problems, different solutions
20 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 b...
Change the "why"
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
JOHN KIELY | Lessons to create your own coaching path
26 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
John Kiely won the “monkey mind” every human has inside him and broke with all the biases, beliefs, thoughts... that unconsciously and erroneously...
What is essential is invisible to the Excel sheet
14 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
MANUEL SOLA INTERVIEW | Embracing complexity in training... and life
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Manuel Sola —great disseminator about to complexity and sport, among many others— interviews me in his podcast Evolutionary Performance. On it, Ma...
PHILIP O’CALLAGHAN | Simplifying the complexity of tennis
17 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Tell me where you live and I will tell you how you play
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
DANI BALLART | The seed of success of Spanish waterpolo
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The conversation is in Spanish. You can watch it with English subtitles in the YouTube video of the episode.10km running up the mountain, 1h and a hal...
RAÚL GIL | Rethinking the assumptions that govern sport, fitness... and the world
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I would summarize the way of seeing the world of Raúl and his Fidias team with Mishima’s quote: “Qui n’ha begut en tindrà set tota la vida.”...
JAMES VAUGHAN | Tell me where you live and I’ll tell you how you play
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Football is played all over the world but you can find many different game-styles depending on the culture and society in which they are carried out. ...