Bulgarian Petanque Academy

25/11/2025

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True.😉
José Raúl Capablanca (19/11/1888)

25/11/2025

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We’re only a few weeks away from 2026. Let it be YOUR year. Your year of growth. Your year of discipline. Your year of success. 👏

24/11/2025

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Building a healthy, high-performing top team is a deliberate, ongoing process. CEOs who commit to this endeavor can build a sustainable competitive advantage.

18/11/2025

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This quote = the core of effective leadership. Our primary role isn't to be the indispensable star, but to act as a value multiplier—empowering, coaching, and elevating everyone around us. True success in leadership is measured not by our individual achievements, but by how many people on our team we have made stronger, more capable, and ultimately, more valuable to the mission. We must shift our focus from seeking personal accolades to building the collective strength of our organization.

12/11/2025

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Innovation is about connecting the dots that others can’t see.

- Shantanu Narayen (Adobe)

10/11/2025

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When I was 18 years old, some 28 years ago now, I announced to my parents I was going to become the best golfer in the world. Yeah, you know, one of those big hairy audacious goals!!!

I was a scratch golfer (which is a country mile away from professional level), ambitious, and ready to practice hard. And so, on my first day after leaving school, I woke up at 5am, drove to the golf club, and started hitting shots.

Three days later, I was thoroughly exhausted, so tempered my early rise. But I remained committed, and, by and large, worked hard at my golf. I don’t think I could be faulted for effort (ability yes, effort no!)

Over the next 5 years, other than a few glimpses of solid under par golf, my golf game unravelled. Average became terrible. By 23, competing on something called the Riviera Tour in South France, I struggled to keep the ball on the golf course. Time to move on became the prevailing thought over a cafe au lait and croissant. Time to move on!

Like most ex professional sports competitors, you tend to reflect on what you could have done differently to have been more successful. I certainly would never have been good enough to have had an extensive career, but, given a time-turner the three things below would have made a positive difference. I would have had more fun and would have won a little more money…

1. Become a cognitive apprentice of the game (hat-tip to Dave Collins for the term ‘cognitive apprentice’).

Too much of development in sport is accepting of tacit knowledge alone, and can be reluctant to engage young people in the development of explicit knowledge of their sport.

Of course, we may need to avoid ‘early seriousness’ and the professionalisation of youth sport…but the problem with a lack of early knowledge-development is that players can miss the important details that influence improvement.

If, for example, during my teenage years I had gotten to know about the five physical laws of impact (eg club path, angle of attack) then I would have improved my ability to put the club on the ball with greater consistency.

Domain-specific knowledge should never be underestimated…and I wish I had had someone to help me with this during these formative years.

2. Practice effectively more so than hard.

I mean, I hit a lot of shots and got worse at the game…in part because I just ‘beat balls’. No consideration for efficacious motor-perceptual development (improving swing and sensorial experiences of swing). No consideration for fidelity of practice (am I practicing in the way the game is played). No consideration for the mental aspects of performance during practice…

…nah mate, just work hard. Just practice a lot!

3. Have a mental framework and make this a big deal during tournament play.

I just wish I had had tighter mental routines, ways to find optimal mental states, and tools to self-regulate.

Oh jeez I wish I did. I may never have competed with Tiger Woods, but I would have shaved some serious shots from my scores

06/11/2025

🔎 War > Pétanque 🫶

No sense making it harder than it needs to be.

04/11/2025

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What an incredible thinking tool this is for coaches from and

Who am I coaching? (What are their needs and wants?)

What am I going to coach them? (Building a sport specific performance model)

How am I going to coach them? (Using theories to underpin learning and development)

02/11/2025

😃 Честито на спечелилите позитивни емоции и награди! 🤝
📎 През 2025 година БПА КЪП регистрира прогрес както в броя на участващите в пойнтерските квалификации, така и в броя на участващите във финалите. Благодарим за доверието, подарените усмивки и надежда за по-успешен трети сезон догодина! 🫶
🖇 https://bpacup.com/bpa-cup/bpa-cup-2025/ 🔍

02/11/2025

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Както и миналата година финалният ден на БПА КЪП бе идеален за петанк - слънчев и с почти сух терен. Панаирни шатри бяха заели 2/3 от игралните пътеки, но поради броя с....