💬 “Our role as coaches is not to give athletes all the answers, but to help them notice what information matters.” - @Marianne_D1

Quick example from basketball: If a player keeps missing short, don’t say “Use more wrist.” Try: “Send the ball higher or hit the top of the square.” Same goal, different focus — and usually, a better result.

Every athlete’s body and technique are different. When you coach through external focus, you allow players to find solutions that fit their own coordination, not force them into a single “perfect” model.

Think of language as a lens. 🔍 The words you choose guide what your players see as important. ➡️ Instead of giving body instructions, try using cues and analogies that focus attention outward.

Internal focus isn’t “wrong.” It can help during technical changes or early learning, when a player needs to understand a new movement. But the goal is to transition quickly back to external focus once the new skill takes hold.

Decades of research (Wulf, 2001; Chua et al., 2021) show that external focus improves performance and learning across all sports, for beginners and experts. Players move more efficiently, ”automatically”, and adapt better under pressure.

External focus = thinking about the effect or goal of the movement. 💬 “Aim for the center of the rim.” 💬 “Make the ball spin softly off the glass.”

Internal focus = directing attention toward one’s own body movements or mechanics. 💬 “Keep your elbow under the ball.” 💬 “Bend your knees more.”

Every cue, drill, or piece of feedback you give as a coach directs the players focus - and that focus shapes how the players move, learn, and perform. Let’s talk about internal vs external focus. 🧵

“You have to remove your ego as the coach who gives solutions and replace it with someone more important — the coach who strategically places obstacles in a player’s way and forces them to self-organize to conquer it.” Love this quote from Joe Boylan 👇 https://t.co/yPOaX9xcwJ

Barn- och ungdomstränare... "Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players. They should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure." Arsene Wenger

A simple way to scale down a drill but still keep it in context (where players have information to perceive and act on) is to add constraints for the defense. For example, give the defender a ball to hold or dribble. As you can see in this drill from @louiesoderberg

Great drill from @JonatanFolke. Here with Malbas BC U21 team. I tried it 30 minutes later with 10-year-olds, and it worked just as well.

When introducing the CLA to coaches across Sweden, @rikardaspegren and @andrewpleick discussed the need to provide coaches with activity ideas, but being sure to provide coaches with the tools for designing their own. https://t.co/RV3mR8vpcF

🗣️”For me, a bad coach is someone who takes away the joy of the game from the players, who doesn’t allow them to express themselves or make their own decisions.” ~ Arsène Wenger ⚽️🌱

The tide is turning. "They got rid of the five-on-zero walkthroughs, making sure even conceptual offensive installations at practice happen against a real defense." @JaredWeissNBA

Nice to see the best coaching method around getting some big time press :) What is ‘the CLA?’ Inside the revolutionary coaching method quietly fueling the world’s best athletes

Become a part of our Youth National Teams! 🇸🇪👏 We are looking for committed and development-oriented coaches to our Youth NT's: U15, U16, U18 and U20, both women and men's. ➡️ Read more and apply here: https://t.co/NnAoP1LoHf 📬 Apply before October 15.

🔥 Daniel Nilo har de två senaste åren coachat Alvik, och i somras ledde han U18-landslaget till EM-guld (Div. B). Från whiteboardpenna till en i bläck, kommer Nilo skriva krönikor på https://t.co/osfa75MNmu 25-26. Nu är första krönikan släppt. ⤵️ https://t.co/RvFSfR9859

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