The Capacities Framework
The six capacities
A complete player is not one ability — it is a stack of well-developed ones. The Codex names six families of human capacity that football draws on at once. StunpreX trains all six, deliberately, in combination.
Perceptual
5 drills
Scanning, spatial awareness, pattern recognition, anticipation — what the player reads from the environment before and during ball contact.
Cognitive
6 drills
Decision-making, working memory, attention management, inhibition — the mental work that happens in the half-second before the touch.
Motor
6 drills
First-touch quality, ball mastery, footwork, balance, and movement efficiency — technical execution with both feet, in all conditions.
Communication
1 drill
Verbal and non-verbal coordination, anticipating teammates, and the timing of collective action under the noise of play.
Affective
1 drill
Emotional regulation, resilience, confidence from evidence, and joy — the capacities that sustain everything else over a long horizon.
Adaptive
1 drill
Reading change, adjusting on the fly, extracting lessons from failure, and transferring skill across surfaces, formats, and opponents.