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The Tension a Sports Parent Lives In
What do you do when your child shows early promise?
Jan 5 • Nick Smallridge

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2025: Year in Review
The Top 5 Most Viewed Posts, Highlights, and What Comes Next
Dec 29, 2025 • Nick Smallridge
Training Hidden Attributes
3 Games to put into your practice for adaptability, consistency, and composure under pressure
Dec 22, 2025 • Nick Smallridge
Is Technique the Foundation, or a Byproduct of Decision-Making?
A response to the “technique first, decisions later” claim
Dec 15, 2025 • Nick Smallridge
As Slow as Possible, As Fast as Necessary
Is it best to always take the first(and quickest) option?
Dec 6, 2025 • Nick Smallridge
Shaping Intentional Session Blocks
How our words can turn training themes into shared stories
Nov 29, 2025 • Nick Smallridge and Coach Luca
Three moments when talking too much made me a worse coach
Learning to listen: Lessons from a Coach who talked too much
Nov 22, 2025 • Nick Smallridge
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Keep 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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