Filed under: Dan Cottrell, Rugby Skills, Rugby Training, Uncategorized | Tags: Rugby Skills, rugby handling, touch rugby, All Blacks training methods, rugby support
Ok, it is the All Blacks, but…
1. Look at the rules: two handed touch, ball carrier and one team mate to the ground, plus the toucher and one of his team mates too. This creates space and encourages support around the fringes.
2. Look at the work rate: at the end these boys are tired.
3. Look at the rugby basics: two hands on the ball, passing before contact, changing angles, arriving from depth.
Touch rugby is a great game for many reasons, but needs careful control to gain the full benefits.
Here are links to some more ideas on touch rugby from the Better Rugby Coaching site:
Filed under: Dan Cottrell, Rugby Skills, Rugby Training, Uncategorized | Tags: All Blacks training, nz rugby, rugby passing games, Wales
Watch this clip from a New Zealand team prep to play Wales. Loads of interesting stuff to look at but I have found the passing game great fun. It is about 50 seconds into the video.
The rules are:
1. One ball per player.
2. The ball is passed left once, right twice, left three times, right four times and so on.
3. The player who makes a mistake drops out.
4. Any disputes decided by “paper, rock, scissors”
I played this last week with some academy boys and as a group of 5 we aimed to get beyond ten consecutive passes one way. Good fun and enjoy.
Filed under: Dan Cottrell, coaches in action pictures | Tags: Rugby Coaching, Rugby Training, tabard rfc, all weather training
Rugby training in the snow, originally uploaded by bowbrick.
Rugby coaching goes on, no matter what the weather.
Filed under: coaches in action pictures | Tags: pictures of coaching, rugby coaches, Rugby Training, world rugby
play role!, originally uploaded by reportergimmi™.
The first in series of photos of rugby coaches in action from around the world.
It is not just about the national and professional coaches, but those of us who have to train in all circumstances, weathers, pitches and players!
Filed under: Rugby Coaching, Rugby Team Management, Rugby Training, Uncategorized | Tags: Rugby Coaching, Martin Johnson, South Africa, Tri-Nations, Wallabies, Wales, Warren Gatland, Declan Kidney, Graham Henry, Springboks, All Blacks, Crusaders, international rugby, Robbie Deans, Peter De Villiers
Here is a fantastic article published this weekend in the South African Independent on Saturday by Peter Bills.
It shows us that the world’s best coaches give the players a lot more freedom to express themselves than previous eras of coaches.
De Villiers, Deans can change rugby
June 07 2008
By Peter Bills
The stagnation of world rugby, a reality confirmed by the recent World Cup and the Six Nations tournaments in the northern hemisphere, could be resolved in 2008’s Tri-Nations Championship.
The arrival of Robbie Deans as the new coach of Australia this week and Peter de Villiers’s innovative hand on the controls in South African rugby, offers the game the opportunity to make overdue progress.
