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Coaching students is one of the most important stages in how a young person will experience a sport and can be the beginning of a lifelong journey or even a profession. It is important then, to make sure that the experience for those children encourages and supports them.
Here are 5 tips for coaching that can help your students find their enjoyment of Rugby.
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Rugby League or Union: do you have a preference? These two types of rugby have as many differences as similarities, making each sport entirely different to watch or play.
However, there are some fundamental factors which are common to both, with certain skills benefiting players of either sport. Here’s a closer look at providing effective skills coaching which would be useful for both forms of rugby.
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Kicking the ball from hand is an integral part of Rugby League. There are a number of situations where kicking can be the appropriate action – for example, to gain territorial advantage, push back the defensive line on the last tackle, and score points.
This lesson plan focuses on coaching grubber, bomb and drop kicks.
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Trying to work out more interesting ways to help your rugby players with their passing skills? This blog gives you plenty of ideas.
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Rugby League is perhaps one of the toughest sports around, with participants covering an estimated 9km during an 80-minute match. Being in the best possible shape for this physically enduring sport is imperative if you want to play well.
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Rugby league focuses on the key skills of handling, passing, running and tackling. Players are expected to have quick hands, good sprint speed with bursts of pace to try to break tackles, and the strength to tackle and halt their opponents’ runs.
Here are 5 drills that we hope you will find useful to help your rugby league players enhance these key skills.
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Tag rugby is a perfect inclusive sport, making a great introduction to rugby for all ages and abilities.
This lesson plan looks at passing with the objective of gaining understanding of the rules and laws regarding passing and catching the ball in this non-contact sport.
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England is set to host the Rugby union World Cup in 2015, two years after the rugby league world cup was joint hosted by England, France, Ireland and Wales. For our country to have hosted both world cups in the different formats shows how important rugby is to our nation. Without doubt English rugby union’s greatest moment came in 2003, when England won the world cup thanks to a drop goal from Johnny Wilkinson beat Australia 20-17.
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This tag rugby lesson focusses on passing, specifically the ability to replicate, perform and catch the lateral pass. This lesson will also promote the understanding of laws on passing and catching the ball.
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This lesson provides ideas for implementing a Rugby League competitive lesson, developing pupils’ knowledge about how to play the ball (PTB).
This competitive lesson plan is designed to incorporate skills such as outwitting opponents and using a variety of restarts in order to play a small sided game of Rugby League.
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