Keep the Door Open
Nick SmallridgeKeep the Door Open explores what it means to coach for emergence, to invite players into a game where perception, decision, and action are not separate, but inherently connected.
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Taking Advantage of Transitions
Sophomore Hadley Smith drives past an opponent in a recent Bentonville High School game, Spring 2026. Photo courtesy of Beta Photography(betaphotography.smughug.com)
Attacking and defending are often taught as if they are separate ideas. I...
High School Soccer vs Club Soccer
Occasionally, a version of the message below appears on social media: a club coach lamenting the poor quality of high school soccer and warning that players are wasting valuable development time.
The post includes several anecdotal observa...
A Faulty Alternator, and the Paradox of Instruction
Hiking in the San Mateo mountains in New Mexico, before iPhones(and apparently style) were invented.
My junior year in college, I made a plan to drive home to New Mexico from where I was going to school in Missouri for Spring break to do s...
The Blue Hour, and the Paradox of Competition and Cooperation
The blue hour: 6:55am on a Saturday morning, arriving for pickup.
Every Saturday morning I play pick up soccer at Mt. Hebron park in Rogers. The usual start time: 7:00am. You heard that right- 7:00 AM on a Saturday morning. It starts as an...
How it Started, How it’s Going
As a practitioner who uses a Constraints Led Approach(CLA), I view skill through an Ecological Dynamics lens. In short, what that means is that skill is the adaptation of the athlete to(and with) the task and environment. Skill is an intera...
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