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"Primum non nocere" (first, do no harm) --Hippocratic Oath Youth sport is broken. Too many resources thrown at a system that too often ...
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ted4637
- Mar 9
- 5 min
Fluency, skill and language of play
In the great documentary "Get Back," George Harrison, a genius in his own right, is trying to put words on Eric Clapton's guitar playing:...
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ted4637
- Oct 20, 2021
- 2 min
Brian Kallman Joins Joy
Joy of the People, a non-profit a 501 (c)(3) that promotes the idea of free play as a way to build healthy kids and communities is...
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ted4637
- Jun 17, 2020
- 3 min
JOY
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 Joy of the people (This is my very first blog post, we had not yet decided to name our project 'Joy of the...
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ted4637
- Apr 16, 2020
- 7 min
How Free Play helped kill the DA
I have a nice DA story, I feel I helped kill it... In 2007 the USSF announced they were opening up applications for the new "Development...
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ted4637
- Mar 18, 2020
- 4 min
Best soccer is closest to home
Sunday, March 22, 2009 Two Stories This from 2009. Trying to Pitch our club to merge with a new elite academy, a who's who/original...
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ted4637
- Jan 29, 2020
- 3 min
Counter-leadership from Jobs and Cruyff
“The only people who change the world are those crazy enough to think they can” Two of the greatests products of this century were...
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ted4637
- Nov 19, 2019
- 5 min
How Brazil "OUTSTREETED" the world
Soccerex, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. (adapted from a 2013 post) At the Brazil CBF booth they had a loop of film showing all the goals in...
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ted4637
- May 11, 2019
- 2 min
5 steps to get your child to quit Fortnite
Attack the discovery, attack the fun. “Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child...
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ted4637
- May 1, 2019
- 5 min
The world's finest youth academy is not the best developmental system
(adapted from my post in 2014) The world's finest youth academy is not the best developmental system. In the summer of 2014 we brought in...
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ted4637
- Mar 30, 2019
- 7 min
Chapter 1: the game is infinite.
In 1969 a school bus loaded with 17 kids, a student mgr, and two coaches crammed with hockey bags, left a Minnesota town on the Canadian...
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ted4637
- Mar 29, 2019
- 22 min
"The beauty of Ajax at its peak was like the beauty of thought."
Ajax, Cruyff and Vasovic By Velibor Vasović, the first 'Total Soccer" Sweeper. Your patience will be rewarded, one of the best articles...
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ted4637
- Mar 9, 2019
- 3 min
How Darwin's forgotten theory can set youth soccer right.
"Beauty comes first, victory is secondary. What matters is joy." --Sócrates Brasileiro de Oliveira We understand winning, We know how to...
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ted4637
- Nov 26, 2018
- 4 min
Hierachy of learning
The hierarchy of learning: elements of play Reprinted from a 2012 blogpost What creates a great free play environment? A friend with a...
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- Sep 3, 2018
- 3 min
The world's best finishers
"The environment is everything, mess with it, have fun with it, take care of it. " An interesting thing happened one day. It was hot, mid...
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- Aug 31, 2018
- 4 min
The nonsense of over-passing
Why high belted shorts and chest passing disappeared and what it means for the rest of us
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