EXPERT SESSIONS AND ADVICE FROM QUALIFIED AND EXPERIENCED GRASSROOTS RUGBY COACHES
As a rugby coach it is well worth your time drawing up a plan for where your team has come from, where it is going and how it is going to get there. This will help you and your team focus on objectives and how to achieve them. MORE
Though it sounds obvious, the number one priority of any coach is to see a clear transfer of skills from practice ground to playing field. You want players to develop habitual good performance. MORE
In order to optimise your training time it is important to understand how your players' concentration levels vary during a training session. MORE
This is "switch touch", an excellent game for improving your players' speed of thought, as well as their alignment whether in attack or defence. MORE
As a youth coach, are you tired of being perceived wrongly as a parent who wants their son or daughter to be in the team? The gullible one who volunteered five years ago and is still there every Sunday morning? The person who wants to live their rugby again? MORE
Ask players what they enjoy most about training and more than likely they will say they love games so long as they are competitive. MORE
Peter Tann, who specialises in the mental approach to the game, looks at some of the problems of preparing your team psychologically for a match. MORE
There must be a selection chair to run the meeting. He sets out the criteria clearly before the meeting starts and keeps the meeting on message. This requires a tough line with the power to stop someone talking if they move away from the point. MORE
How often do your players get themselves in the wrong places at the wrong times? Or make a mistake through lack of concentration? Visualisation can prevent these concentration lapses and dramatically improve the quality of your set piece moves.
MOREBasketball can benefit rugby players, both from an athletic point of view and from a better understanding of playing games. MORE
