The Coaching Puzzle

My guess today is Todd Beane, founder of the TOVO Institute. Todd's organization has worked with professional academies in Spain, the Netherlands and a number of other countries, including the United States. In this episode, you'll hear Todd share his experience, talk about "redefining the fundamentals", and address why we should drop the dominant technical-centric approach and aim instead to create dynamic and realistic sessions and environments that would be more beneficial to the development of our players. This would also ensure that our players have fun in the process!

My guest today is Andreu Enrich. Andreu is the Head Coach of Mannheim Hockey Club, a club based in Germany, and author of a wonderful book called "Hockey: 50 tips from Intelligent Players". As it's been the case with past guests, I heard of Andreu on Stuart's Armstrong the Talent Equation podcast, where he made an appearance and talked about the book, along with several other topics, and I decided to invite him on the Coaching Puzzle to continue to dive deeper into youth sports. "Technical training", warm-ups, and players "making the right mistakes" are just a few of the interesting topics that we discussed. Enjoy!

My guest on today's episode is Dan Abrahams. Dan is a registered Sport psychologist for elite and developing elite sports individuals, teams, clubs, organizations and governing bodies globally. He is also the host of the Sport Psych Show, one of the world's most listened to sport psychology podcasts We talked about the evolution of the field, some specific terms and concepts that coaches should be aware of, and some practical ideas that even the least experiences coaches can use with the athletes they are in charge of! You DO NOT want to miss this episode!

Casey is the Strength and conditioning Coach at Pacific Ridge School, and independent co-educational school in San Diego for students in grades 6-12. Casey has an extensive experience working with Athletes at the youth and HS level . You'll hear him talk about agility and developing playmakers, pre-season, and strength and conditioning among many other topics!

Our guest today is Dr. Jean Cote. Dr. Cote is a Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario in Canada. His research interests is in the areas of youth sport, coaching, positive youth development and sport expertise. In this episode, he talks about key concepts such as early sport specialization vs sampling, deliberate practice, deliberate play , and transformational coaching.