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Coaching Rugby

A practical guide for new coaches

Coaching Rugby includes more than 100 drills and games for coaching all the basics. Ideal for new and aspiring coaches of junior players, this coaching manual breaks down the entire game into coachable units for ages 8 to 16. (Coaching Manual PDF version.)

Product:

Coaching Manuals (PDF)

Age: 8 -11, 11-16
Type:

Articles

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Drills

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Games

Skill level: Beginner, Improver
£33.00

Full Description

Everything You Need To Know For Coaching Rugby

Do you want a few new skills to boost your players' skills now? Or to help your players develop the techniques for seasons ahead? Maybe even the core skills for their whole rugby playing career?

Coaching Rugby is the answer.

  • It contains ideas for many things you'll need to do and say at training. Covers everything from health and safety, to long term athlete / player development (LTAD)

  • Has all the exercises and sessions you'll need for the year ahead. More than 100 training sessions, rugby games and developments to take you through the whole rugby coaching year… and for seasons to come

  • Ideal for beginners. Supports new and aspiring coaches, coaches working towards their level 1 courses and beyond, coaches covering unfamiliar areas, and more experienced coaches looking for a fresh approach

  • An unique resource for schools and clubs with junior players. Covers the key technical aspects of the players' long term development from ages 8 to 16

  • Provides a solid base for all the core skills your players will need throughout their rugby playing careers

 

 COACHING RUGBY CONTENTS :

Part 1: Working with young players in a safe and rewarding environment

Coaching Rugby enables the coach to match the players by their age groups and LTAD stage with the sessions included, to construct an appropriate programme for the players and the team.

Part 2: More than 100 training sessions, game situations and developments to coach all players the basic skills of rugby union

Tackling: This chapter will show you how to coach both how to tackle and be tackled. The sessions will give you all the information and prompts you need to coach:
  • Tackling preparation
  • Simple tackling
  • The side on tackle
  • The front on tackle
  • The rear tackle
 

 

Handling: This chapter will show you how to coach passing and handling, as well as angles of running to create space. The sessions will give you all the information and prompts you need to coach:

  • Passing and catching
  • The lateral pass
  • The spin or "torpedo" pass
  • The switch pass
  • Passing under pressure
  • The clearance pass
  • Simple loops
  • Passing to create space
  • Offloading in contact
  • Handling in a narrow space
  • Handling and communication
  • Picking up the ball
  • Try scorers
 

 

Footwork: This chapter will show you how to coach the use of footwork to beat defenders and avoid contact. The sessions will give you all the information and prompts you need to coach:

  • The swerve
  • The side step
  • Improving evasion skills
  • More advanced evasion skills

 

Kicking: This chapter will show you how to coach kicking, as well as charging down and catching kicks. The sessions will give you all the information and prompts you need to coach:

  • The punt
  • The grubber kick
  • The chip and chase
  • The place kick
  • The drop kick
  • Catching a high ball

 

The ruck: This chapter will show you how to explain and coach the ruck. The sessions will give you all the information and prompts you need to coach:

  • Setting up and joining a ruck
  • Core ruck skills
  • Ruck attack
  • Ruck defence
  • Ruck scan
 

 

The maul: This chapter will show you how to explain and coach the maul. The sessions will give you the information and prompts you need to coach:

  • Setting up and joining a maul
  • Securing maul ball
  • The driving maul
  • Defending a maul
  • Ruck to maul

 

The scrum: This chapter will show you how to coach the scrum, from building simple three player units, to creating an eight player scrum. The sessions will give you all the information and prompts you need to coach:

  • Scrum basics
  • The three man scrum
  • The five man scrum
  • Building a full scrum

 

The lineout: This chapter will show you how to coach the lineout, involving jumping, lifting and throwing in. The sessions will give you all the information and prompts you need to coach:

  • Lineout jumping
  • Lineout lifting
  • Lineout throw in
  • Lineout catch and drive

 

Match tactics: This chapter will show you how to coach the basic tactics needed to win matches. The sessions will give you all the information and prompts you need to coach:
 

  • Attacking channels
  • Second phase ball
  • Converting opportunities
 

 

Every training session includes these crucial elements:

  • Clear and powerful objectives. At the beginning of the session, you can tell the players how to achieve these, or tease it out of them as the session goes on. At the end, return to these objectives to see if you've reached your goals.

 

  • Explanation of how the session will work. Depending on the aim of the session, you'll see the exercises or moves the players need to practise. You can try them in slow motion until you get the drill right. Then speed it up.

 

  • Answers to vital tactical questions. Every session will throw up questions like, “How do I develop this session?”… “How would I put this into a game situation?”… These are all answered for you. In fact each session will prepare you to use what you've learned in a full game.

 

  • What to call out and what to look for. Apart from the usual words of encouragement, it's good to shout key instructions to players. I'll tell you when, how and what to call out for maximum impact. You also need to keep your eyes open for mistakes. I'll help you identify quickly where players might go wrong so you can quickly put them right.

 

  • Game situations and developments. Most sessions include at least one game situation to help you hone your players' skills and techniques within a competitive, pressured atmosphere.

 

  •  Ways to get good feedback. Each session gives you the chance to challenge your players and the game situation, either by using feedback or asking yourself the most vital questions.

Dramatically improve your team's performance

The training sessions within Coaching Rugby are full of fresh new ideas for squads of any size. They are designed to help you engage with your players and develop their core rugby skills…

… the skills they will use throughout their playing “careers”, whether that's simply for the season ahead or through adulthood.

Each session has a clear objective and should take no more than 5 minutes to set up. This will leave you more time to practise with the players.

Which leaves you time to go out and enjoy the training session!

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