EXPERT SESSIONS AND ADVICE FROM QUALIFIED AND EXPERIENCED GRASSROOTS RUGBY COACHES
Players who turn for training early often kick the ball around.
While you might not want to intervene and allow them to have free play, you might want to make this a “thing”.
That is, “if you want to start 15 minutes earlier than the official start time, I will lay on some activities to do. They are voluntary”.
Here are some kicking activities that only need a few players. You can stand back and let them get on with it, while you set up the rest of the session. Or, a co-coach can watch over to give the players some confidence or encouragement.
in Kicking, Kicking & Catching, Rugby drills
With the new 50 – 22 Laws, this skill practice aims to aid a kicker with an opportunity to identify where an opposition is weakest. MORE
in Email Newsletters, Scrums & Lineouts
Lineout training should be based around getting the basics right first. When Gary Gold was coaching the South African team with Victor Matfield and they were the best lineout in the world, he used to say: "They know where the ball is going, but Victor will always beat them into the air." But a lineout is not just about the jump/lift. It's also about what happens afterwards. Here are four activities to develop different aspects of this set-piece situation. MORE
in Email Newsletters, Rugby drills
There are so many elements to passing, which ones do you concentrate on first and how do you train them? Here are a bunch of the priority skills you need and then great ways to train them. MORE
Good drop kick restarts allow your team to put pressure on the opposition. This simple exercise helps develop more players who can use this skill. Not enough time is spent on this simple skill. Especailly for younger players, they need to work their way through the set up and technique to complete a drop kick restart. MORE
in Kicking & Catching, Rugby drills
Work on your kicker’s specific out-of-hand technique so they can develop that natural ability into a repeatable, accurate skill under pressure. Ideal to use a session the players can then go and use themselves, before or outside training time. MORE
in Kicking & Catching, Small-sided games
Improve your kicking with a game of aerial noughts and crosses. Teams take it in turns to kick the ball and aim to drop it in a square which marks their nought or cross. Aerial noughts and crosses gives your players a chance to make accurate kicks with additional tactical pressures as you build the game. MORE
