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07/29/2026

When people watch elite players, they often describe what they see.

“He’s just faster.”
“She has better technique.”
“It’s just instinct.”

None of those explanations are necessarily wrong. They describe elite performance. But they don’t explain how another player closes the gap.

If Mbappé sprints past a defender, saying he’s faster describes the outcome. It doesn’t explain how another player becomes faster. To coach it, we break sprinting down into mechanics, force application, strength, power, and speed.

Decision-making is no different. Saying, “It’s just instinct,” may describe what elite performance looks like, but it doesn’t explain how that performance is produced or help another player improve.

That’s why I break performance down.

Not because I expect players to consciously think through every decision forever. I don’t.

I break it down because players can’t improve what they don’t understand.

The RC Methodology exists to identify the gap between your current performance and the defined standard. Once that gap is clear, development becomes intentional instead of guesswork. We don’t just analyze how players move or execute technically. We also analyze how they solve problems. What information did they recognize? Why did they choose that solution? Why was that solution more effective?

What looks instinctive at the highest level is often the product of years of experience. Through repeated exposure to similar situations, players recognize patterns, refine effective solutions, and those responses become increasingly automatic.

That’s the goal.

Not to consciously analyze every decision during the game.

To understand performance so well through practice and experience that effective decisions become your natural response.

When LT says, “See ball, go get ball,” he’s describing what elite performance can look like. Reaching that point takes years of learning, practice, and experience.

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07/27/2026

Most players think the difficult part is receiving and passing. Rodri has already solved most of the problem before the ball arrives.

As the pass travels, he continues collecting information instead of immediately locking onto the ball. At the same time, he’s organizing his body around that information. His hips, feet, and body shape are already preparing for the next action before he ever touches the ball. As the ball gets closer, he briefly checks it to confirm everything is still on line. Then, before he even makes contact, he looks upfield again. He’s still collecting relevant information until the last possible moment while continuing to organize for the solution he’s most likely to execute.

That only works because he’s completely comfortable with his organization and technique.

Good organization extends perception. Great technique extends it even further.

Many players lose their attention to movement. Others regain it without the ball, but lose it again as soon as a ball is introduced because controlling it demands too much attention. Rodri is different. Ball or no ball, he’s organized, balanced, and confident enough that he doesn’t need to stare at it. Those qualities free his attention to keep collecting information while continuing to organize his body for the action that’s coming next.

By the time the picture is confirmed and the decision is made, almost nothing is left to solve. His body is already organized.

There isn’t an extra hop. There aren’t adjustment steps. He doesn’t have to turn after receiving. The receiving foot naturally becomes the plant foot, and the only movement left is the one that’s actually required to execute the pass.

The game looks simple because he solved most of the problem before he ever touched the ball.

07/21/2026

Every movement task in sport places different demands on the athlete and requires different qualities to solve.

This session focused on four movement qualities:

1. Deceleration — The ability to reduce speed under control while staying balanced and ready for the next action.

2. Acceleration — The ability to rapidly produce force and increase speed.

3. Re-Acceleration — The ability to quickly regain speed after slowing down.

4. Change of Direction — The ability to efficiently transition from one direction of travel to another.

In training, these qualities are often isolated so they can be developed deliberately.

In competition, they rarely happen in isolation. They blend together continuously as athletes solve the demands in front of them.

Don’t just practice drills. Understand what you’re developing, why you’re developing it, and build the qualities the game demands.

I had the opportunity to attend the World Cup Final. I’m incredibly grateful to have experienced the biggest stage in ou...
07/20/2026

I had the opportunity to attend the World Cup Final. I’m incredibly grateful to have experienced the biggest stage in our sport in person.

The goal isn’t just to attend these matches. The goal is to help develop players who compete in them.

07/16/2026

Watch the right foot. In one clip, it organizes outside his body. In the other, it organizes underneath him.

That organization puts his body in position to create the intended solution. The touch doesn’t create the organization. The organization creates the touch.

Messi can delay committing to that organization longer than most players.

07/14/2026

A few things stand out immediately:

• His deceleration before the pass is elite. He lowers, redirects, and breaks diagonally to reach the ball first without killing his momentum.

• The first touch is integrated into the run. He pushes off the left, receives with the right in stride, and never has to reorganize after the reception.

• The carry is incredibly rhythmic. Every push creates the next touch. His running mechanics and ball contacts become one connected movement.

• The ball stays on his running line. He never has to chase a touch or make a major correction. Each touch allows the next stride to continue naturally.

• He stays organized between contacts. Every landing puts him in position to apply force again immediately. That is why he appears to bounce effortlessly from one leg to the other.

• The finish is an extension of the carry. He doesn’t suddenly become a different mover to shoot. The same rhythm continues directly into the two-step finish.

Nothing is disconnected. He decelerates, redirects, receives, carries, and finishes without ever breaking the movement.

07/13/2026

Define the demands.
Define the previous demand and the new demand. What is the athlete being asked to solve at each?

Compare and contrast the demands.
What stayed the same? What changed? Did they have less time, more pressure, a better defender, more decisions to process, or less space?

Compare and contrast the ex*****on.
What stayed the same? What changed? Identify the visible differences in the ex*****on.

Explain why the differences appeared.
Connect the differences in ex*****on to the differences in demand. Don’t just describe what happened. Explain why they happened.

Restore the standard.
Train at that level until the ex*****on consistently returns to the standard.

Increase the demand.
Once the athlete consistently solves that demand, define the next level of demand and repeat the process.

Development isn’t guesswork. It’s a repeatable process.

07/10/2026

Before you can change direction, your body has to organize into a position where it can apply force into the new line.

If you aren’t organized, you can’t immediately apply force into that direction. Instead, you’ll have to compensate by taking a less efficient line or spending time repositioning your body before you can accelerate efficiently.

07/09/2026

The fake buys time to organize.

Mbappé starts behind the ball, not in a shooting position. By selling an inside touch, he freezes the defender while he works himself around the ball.

He grazes the ball, but it never leaves the shooting line, so there’s no prep touch needed.

Once he’s organized, he just needs to get the right foot down once before planting and firing.

The deception creates the time, and the organization creates the finish.

07/09/2026

I heard Tony Robbins say Michael Jordan told him:

“I demand more from myself than anybody else could possibly expect.

I don’t compete with other people. I compete with what I’m capable of.”

I feel the same way.

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