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Mar 15, 20239 min read
How kids teach scientist and coaches
A recent twitter eruption over kids at practice kicking against a wall set the internet on fire with coaches and scientific skill experts...
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ted4637
Aug 4, 202229 min read
VIVA LA REVOLUTION
"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, 20225 min read
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, 20212 min read
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
Apr 16, 20207 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20195 min read
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, 20192 min read
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, 20195 min read
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, 20197 min read
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, 201922 min read
"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, 20193 min read
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, 20184 min read
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, 20183 min read
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, 20184 min read
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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