Episode #106 Nobody Talks About Failure at the Skate Park — Craig Harrison on Designing Rooms Where Getting It Wrong Is Cheap

The Constraints Collective · Sep 3, 2026 · 1h 5m

This month's guest podcast: Ian Renshaw and Keith Davids are joined by Craig Harrison, who spent almost ten years running the long-term athlete development programme at AUT Millennium in Auckland and has just written a book, *Coach by Design*, about what he learned. Craig's central distinction splits environment design into two separate levers — structure (what the space lets a learner choose and perceive) and control (the force a coach applies to direct decisions on top of that) — rather than a single dial between drilled and unstructured training.

The conversation moves through the skate…