Olivier Goetgeluck

02/09/2026

Serbia, 2018. Lunch with Gregg Popovich during a break at Basketball Without Borders.

24/08/2026

A kid misses two free throws and the whole game changes for him.

We usually think from the belief: “fix that with more reps.”

Sometimes what's needed is smaller and stranger:
finding out where the situation lands in his body -
the jaw, the breath going high, feet losing ground -
and then finding out he can come back from there.

Making that quality part of what we call "practice."

This resource doesn't stay in the gym.
It's still there during an exam, in a first job, in a hard conversation at thirty.

The work is the same with the pros.
It just costs less to learn these things at a younger age.

There is no such thing as a FREE throw.

So let us centralise internal freedom as one the main impacts we intend to have through any youth learning environment.

Which qualities,
if we normalise them in our practice curriculum,
would have deep impact in our current and next generation of kids?

✊ for the intent behind your project.

21/08/2026

Without thinking.
Immediately give yourself over to the practice that aligns you with your intent.
Doesn't need to be special or perfect - mostly consistent.

Tag along.

The skill of learning to immediately give up your head to movement.
So sink from intellect in an organic sense of being.

Move, breath, attune yourself back together as one coherent, rhythmical whole.

Things happen when you try.
In-person. Antwerp. 31/10-1/11
Next Reheat signups are open → https://www.oliviergoetgeluck.com/antwerp

17/08/2026

Youth sports often coaches skills to the max, while the inner game is still taught mostly by accident.

Pros I've worked with often needed to figure that one out by themselves. Reactively.

Meanwhile: kids jump less, land worse, attention spans are being molded for speed. The physical basics - jumping, landing, balancing - are drifting further away each year in the 15 years I've been working with young athletes.

So I propose we train that "other side" and normalise it as a dedicated part of any youth learning environment. Proactively.

Lying down to arrive to the experience of your own body: "what is it saying today?".
Games that ask them to observe, that demand presence, reflection, not just ex*****on. Attention as a skill that can be refined just like any other through deliberate practice - early, in the body, through various games.

In these times, I believe returning mindfully and often to the body as a thinking partner is essential - and developing our bodily literacy as wide and in-depth as we can is not a luxury.

Thank you & .rens of for contributing in this direction.

02/08/2026

"I've evolved from only doing to also being and feeling.
Before, it was mainly - actually only - doing."

Mathias leads commercial operations across Southeast Asia. He calls body work "a missed chance in today's society. A lot of untapped territory."

A leader who learned, with more and more refinement, to stop overriding what he feels.

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29/07/2026

Autumn Reheat. Antwerp, 31 October and 1 November.

Two days of movement, stillness, and practice with Natalia Pieczuro and me.

Most people who come have already done the courses, the coaching, the reading.

They arrive with a question they haven't been able to exactle define yet.

We work in the city on purpose. Buildings keep their construction. The stimuli keep coming.

You learn to find solitude, to re-member, in the crowd.

Studio Carwash, Borgerhout.
A short walk from Antwerp Central.
Small group, so we can stay close.

Everything is on the page.
Link in bio.

26/07/2026

"One of the bigger things that changed for me is booking a meeting with myself. It sounds simple, but that really helped me."

Tonio, the modern breed of basketball referee.

On the transformative effects of making it
to the standing appointment with yourself.

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24/07/2026

This is Maria, she's great.

She joined us 5 years ago in Galicia.

Used to be a competitive gymnast, and reinvented herself.
This is not so easy, as former athletes know.
Identity tends to demand that you cling, when you've invested all those 10,000's of hours.
She even took English classes to be able to participate in the group discussions and theatrical exercises of Natalia.

Greatly inspiring.
Thank you Maria for embodying ceaselessly trying and endless refining.
Using "the controllables" - effort and attitude from sport - to energize new exploration.

Reheats are not about what you can do.
What participants share above all is intent.

11/03/2026

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