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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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This Rugby Union lesson plan focuses on scrummaging – including understanding the different front row positions within the scrum, feeding the scrum, the infringements that lead to scrums, and binding in the scrum.
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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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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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Girls need positive role models if they’re to be inspired to take up sport; here we interview Sarah Hunter, captain of the successful England Women’s Rugby team.
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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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With Round 1 of the Six Nations kicking off with Wales V England on 6th February, now is the perfect time to look at rugby union in schools. As of 2010, 66% of primary and secondary schools were providing rugby union sports provision.
Besides enjoyment and fitness, rugby union can develop a wide range of skills and values such as working in a team, determination, respect and sportsmanship.
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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 is a lesson plan for rugby union scrums. In it we practice binding at the scrums and explain and understand the roles of each of the front row positions.
Set up games that start from the scrum and award points for hooking the ball cleanly, strong binding and winning the ball against the head.
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