At TCS Live, one of the most anticipated sessions isn’t just about who is speaking, it’s about what coaches are about to rethink.
When Job Fransen takes the stage, the focus won’t be drills, systems, or playbooks. It will be something far more foundational: how players actually learn.
Fransen, an Associate Professor at Charles Sturt University in Australia and Founder of SkillACQ, works in the space where research meets real-world coaching. Across football, basketball, rugby, and elite performance environments worldwide, his work helps coaches design practice not as repetition, but as a learning system.
Fransen’s upcoming TCS Live presentation is expected to challenge a familiar coaching trap: the idea that more instruction and cleaner execution automatically lead to better players.
Instead, Fransen’s lens shifts attention to the environment itself – how practice is structured, how constraints shape decision-making, and why athletes often develop more effectively when they’re solving problems rather than being shown solutions.
For coaches at TCS Live, that means the session won’t just offer ideas to add into practice plans. It will ask harder questions about what’s already there:
- Are athletes truly learning, or just repeating?
- Is coaching accelerating independence or creating dependence?
- Does practice prepare players for chaos, or avoid it?
That’s why this session carries weight before it even begins.
Not because it promises new drills, but because it may change how coaches see every drill they already use.
When Job Fransen speaks at TCS Live, the takeaway will be game-changing.
