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Five ways to build players' confidence

Five ways to build players' confidence

MASON DAVIES on giving youngsters the tools to learn.
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Four ways to ensure training starts on time

Four ways to ensure training starts on time

Use these tips to avoid lateness eating into your sessions.
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Four ways of showing players that you care

Four ways of showing players that you care

Learning how best to look after our athletes will make us better coaches, says Matthew Gherardi, a postgraduate teaching assistant in spo...
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Ask Dan: Tried-and-tested methods to bond as a team...

Ask Dan: Tried-and-tested methods to bond as a team...

Coaching problem? Put it to our head coach Dan Cottrell.
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Four ways of showing players that you care

Four ways of showing players that you care

Learning how best to look after our athletes will make us better coaches, says Matthew Gherardi, a postgraduate teaching assistant in spo...
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Introducing rugby in a non-rugby school

Introducing rugby in a non-rugby school

LINDSAY ABERY, minis and juniors chair at Thatcham RFC in Berkshire, shares his six top tips for bringing the game to a whole new audienc...
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Safe, effective tackles

Safe, effective tackles

Good technique needs practice – in the case of tackling, little and often. Former England Women’s coach GRAHAM SMITH has four ways to dev...
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Why parents are not your 'shark problem'

Why parents are not your 'shark problem'

Culture consultant JP NERBUN on reshaping a mindset on relationship building.
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Rugby Coach Weekly Issue 158

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    From classroom to the field: Effective explanations

    From classroom to the field: Effective explanations

    MASON DAVIES (@thegeogteacher ) on helping players understand the game.
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    Pump the brakes? Or step on the gas pedal?

    Pump the brakes? Or step on the gas pedal?

    Silicon Valley Rugby’s SEAN LINDERSMITH on determining the pace of a session.
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    From classroom to the field: Retrieval Practice

    From classroom to the field: Retrieval Practice

    How evidence-informed approaches can enhance your coaching skills, training sessions and the subsequent development of your players.
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    How you can help an unhappy player

    How you can help an unhappy player

    Identify the causes and help them to get back on track.
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    Develop robustness in training sessions

    Develop robustness in training sessions

    DAN COX, head coach of English fourth-tier side Old Redcliffians, explains how he focuses on players’ ability to repeat certain actions ...
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    The buzzword buster

    The buzzword buster

    Understand creativity, decision-making and off-the-ball.
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    Driving performance

    Driving performance

    In the last of a three-part series, ANDY LONGLEY and ALI TISDALL, from the coachup academy, explore ’up’ factors in the art and ...
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    Learning to play in the zone

    Learning to play in the zone

    Brian Moylett, the author of The Book on How You Become a Pro Rugby Player, discusses how you play in the zone, with his three-step guide ...
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    Make weaknesses positive

    Make weaknesses positive

    Pointing out a player’s weaknesses can be difficult and possibly counter-productive. Here, we explain how you can work with each player ...
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    Simple ways to influence the mind of the player

    Dan Cottrell chats to top sports psychologist Dan Abrahams about how even non-expert coaches can make a difference in their players’ ...
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    Rob Gray and Mike Ashford discuss how we make decisions

    Rob Gray and Mike Ashford discuss how we make decisions

    Dan hosts a discussion between Professor Rob Gray and Dr Mike Ashford about how players make decisions.

    The discussion is based on a paper ...
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    4 counterintuitive concepts about how we learn

    4 counterintuitive concepts about how we learn

    Sarah Cottingham, teacher educator and Educational Neuroscience MA, challenges us on how we think we learn and how we might apply it to our ...
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    If at first you don't succeed...

    If at first you don't succeed...

    How can coaches achieve “success” within a team when the goalposts for what “success” is are off-centre from the beginning? A research ...
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    Four fresh thoughts to fire up your season

    Four fresh thoughts to fire up your season

    Vary the way you train, both in approach and application. Stretch your players so they can learn more and different ways. You might be ...
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    Do you measure the wrong success criteria?

    Do you measure the wrong success criteria?

    In Episode 72, Sam Larner raises some excellent points about how we as coaches of teams measure the success of elements within the game. H...
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    The heart of coaching: What's easy to state, but difficult to achieve and how you can solve that

    The heart of coaching: What's easy to state, but difficult to achieve and how you can solve that

    From my Roundup Rodeo podcast with Alison Payne and Gary Laybourne discuss what is really at the heart of coaching: how do we engage, work ...

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