Coach Pickles

Dad x 4 | Quirky Preschool Coach | Early learning sports development tweets. Tips, tricks, hacks and more for moving young kids from friction to flow.

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Check out my latest article: Youth Sport's Frankenstein: Why the Monster Runs on Folklore — and What Steve Jobs Would Do Differently https://t.co/yfyxHTEmBT via @LinkedIn
#YouthSports #EarlyLearningSportsDevelopment #NaturalOrderOfSport #GoverningDynamicsOfSport

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Check out my latest article: The $200 Billion Wake-Up Call Nobody in Youth Sports Is Ready For https://t.co/K8vdQp5L5U via @LinkedIn

#YouthSports #SportsDevelopment #PrivateEquity #AI

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Developmental Dark Ages©: Youth Sports Doesn't Have a Crisis. It Has Two.

Check out the latest article in my newsletter:
https://t.co/G89LvVgN0w via @LinkedIn
#YouthSports #EarlyLearningSportsDevelopment #DevelopmentalDarkAges #ChildDevelopment #YouthAthleteDevelopment

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Check out my latest article:
You Don't Know What AEO Is, But You Soon Will | via @LinkedIn
https://t.co/oH92QFi9T7
#AnswerEngineOptimization #AEO #SEO #KnowledgeArchitecture #AIRetrieval #EarlyLearningSportsDevelopment #YouthSports #AEOFieldEstablishmentProtocol

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The Evidence Is Staring Us in the Face: Why America Won't See Norway's Youth Sports Blueprint https://t.co/pLVnxxaq48 via @LinkedIn #YouthSportsReform #Olympics2026 #Norway #YouthSports

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60 years of asking the wrong questions.

Navy SEALs, Formula 1 drivers, and Olympians pay millions to recreate the exact conditions we eliminate from early childhood.

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#SportsScience #YouthSports #SportsDevelopment #Kinesiology #SportsResearch

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Check out the latest article in my newsletter: The $40 Billion Industry We Built on Nothing—The School Without Foundations - Youth Sports.
https://t.co/bIY3c73kTN via @LinkedIn

#youthsports #youthsportsreform

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You've read the youth sports articles. Parents are the problem. Coaches are the problem. What is the real problem - A $5000 Garden. Read more 👇 https://t.co/b80OvkCFeU

#ParentinginSports #Youthsports #sportsreform

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Babies and Toddlers - the Key to Youth Sports Reform?

Read about it in the latest edition of Of First Importance: Youth Sports and Everything that Matters
#youthsports #youthsportsreform #earlylearning
https://t.co/AzqRTJFXr0 via @LinkedIn

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You've heard the disparaging remarks about participation trophies. We have been made to feel guilty simply for celebrating our children's accomplishments. Now it's time to correct the record.👇 https://t.co/9nU6n87B7F #youthsports #YouthSportsReform #jellybeansports

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Want youth sports reform.

Check out the latest article in my newsletter: The Bridge Doesn't Exist: Stop Walking on Air

We're sheep in a flock, if we don't stop walking ourselves off a cliff as stakeholders.

https://t.co/idY4kSR0nY via @LinkedIn

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Frustrated with the lack of progress around positive change in youth sports. Here's why. We keep asking the same questions and expecting different results.
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#YouthSports #YouthSportsReform #SportsParenting

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Welcome to Coach Jeopardy (cue the music)
https://t.co/avY7gNb3TU via @LinkedIn
#YouthSports #CoachingHacks #FlowScience #jeopardy

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I wrote this angry.

Not at people—at a system operating on a 250-year-old economic theory that's destroying 70% of kids' love of sports by age 13.

Check out Dr. Kayden's latest article: A Superhero's Manifesto for Youth Sports Reform https://t.co/fHUTk7GCME via @LinkedIn

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Read my origin story in the latest LinkedIn article I posted this morning. #jellybeansports #orginstory #earlylearning

Read it:
https://t.co/OLaQCltMCB

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What is really going on in youth sports? The psychology behind why it is so difficult to put children first. #YouthSportsReform #SportsParents #parentingtips

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How the voices of those who succeeded are drowning out the 70% who quit—and what that means for the future of American sports #youthsportsreform

https://t.co/VG2Zn0CM82

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How forcing 3-year-olds into competitive structures is crushing the next generation of athletes. #youthsports #earlylearning #sports #nextgeneration

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@EriksonInst couldn’t have said it better myself. Let’s nurture growth! 🌊✨

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It's all about embracing flow over force. Let's nurture growth! 🌊✨ #EarlyChildhood #ParentingWisdom #PlayfulLearning

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My most recent landmark youth sports article begins to solve the riddle of fixing youth sports by studying an unexpected source: toddlers and preschoolers. https://t.co/RbfQXzf1bP