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  There is an ongoing dispute in finnish floorball discussion on the future of finnish floorball and the coaching policies of the federation. We have been writing against the oversimplified view of the game as multiple...

How do you play medium high zonal 2-2-1 press? How do you break low block 1-2-2, aka “Erä’s cottage”? How do you start the build up from your defensive zone with a back triangle? People contact me often and ask different kind of...

Tikkurilan Tiikerit oli yllätyksellisen Divarin yllätyksellinen voittaja. Vielä isompaa ylläriä tarjoili kuitenkin ÅIF, joka ylsi ensin – yllättäen – Divarin finaaliin. Siellä Tiikerit oli edellä otteluvoitoin 3-0,...

Again, not a long blog post. There has been some debate in social media about identifying a problem in a team’s game and the possible solutions for that problem. The last debate took wind from Mikael De Anna’s blog post about the...

A session of small sided games for teaching tactical game principles Yesterday's blog post from Mikael de Anna (in finnish here) started a discourse on the actual practice design by coaches in different clubs. Here I will open up...

The last EFT before the forthcoming World Championships was held in Uppsala, Sweden in the end of October. As the tournament would be the last time the top teams would meet before the WFC,  it offered an interesting chance to see how...

“The outcome of any game is determined by the nature of the confrontation between two complex systems (two teams) and is characterized by the alternation of successive states of order and disorder, stability and instability, uniformity...

Salibandy noussut todella nopeassa tahdissa yliopistojen hikijumpasta merkittäväksi lajiksi. Kasvun myötä kilpasalibandyn ohella laji on asemoinut itsensä vahvasti niin nuorten, kuin sekä varttuneempien vahvaksi liikuttajaksi. Lajin...

"Iatrogenics is when a treatment causes more harm than benefit. As iatros means healer in Greek, the word means “caused by the healer” or “brought by the healer.”  Healer, in this sense, need not mean doctor, but anyone...

Suomen hävitessä ennätyksellisesti lukemin 10-6 Sveitsille viikonlopun EFT-turnauksessa, syntyi maalikoosteen perusteella useampi Sveitsin maali Suomen heikosti organisoidun korkean prässin (ja Sveitsiltä onnistuneen paineen alta...

Glossary Nonlinear = The output of a nonlinear system cannot be simply predicted from the input. The function is not a line. Complex system = a system is complex, when it has emergent properties. This means, the whole is different from the...

Salibandyliigan kärkiosastoon Classicin kovimmiksi haastajiksi nostamme Oilersin ja TPS:n. Salibandyliigan alkava kausi on toisaalta vaikea ennakoitava sijojen 2-7 osalta. Ei Classicinkaan mestaruus tai runkosarjavoitto ennalta ole...

Again, more like an extended tweet than a well-structured longer piece. I had an interesting short conversation with a Dutch floorball coach Tim Hidskens about half-spaces* in floorball. *half-space = the space between the central lane and...

After posting the analysis (SWE-FIN U19 Final), I started thinking that maybe the Sweden's coaching staff thought they had in fact organized at least their attacking build up -phase. After a further reflection it occured to me that...

Kolmannessa osassa Complex Floorball julkaisee ylemmän keskikastin. Näin kuuden parhaan joukkueen osasto jaetaan vielä puoliksi. Tässä osastossa on joukkueita, jotka pystyvät onnistuessaan haastamaan liigan kärkeäkin –...