Priciples of Coaching I Coaching Material

 

PRINCIPLES OF COACHING:

The Club has adopted the following principles for coaching and refereeing the game of rugby union.

FORMAT

  • Panda (Under 7 and 8)
  • Tiger (Under 9 and 10)
  • Dragon (Under 11 and 12)

    FEATURES

  • To provide an introduction to the principles of the game of rugby union.
  • To provide an introduction to skills at a pace appropriate to their age and physical development.
  • To provide an equal opportunity to participate irrespective of size, body shape or ability
  • To provide an introduction to the basic skills and understanding of set plays through the modified scrum, maul and lineout situations.
  • To ensure that sportsmanship and fair play are positively rewarded
  • To provide at all times a safe environment in which to learn the game of rugby

    COACHING

  • Panda Rugby is a simple, non-tackling introduction to the game that concentrates on passing, catching and running skills.
  • Tiger Rugby continues the theme of free flowing, running and passing rugby action. It also introduces the young player to the elements of tackle, continuity, ruck and maul.
  • Dragon Rugby is designed to provide an introduction to the tactical principles of rugby. The main four issues are 'Go Forward, Pressure, Support and Continuity'
  • The concept of positive reinforcement cannot be over- emphasised.
  • Satisfaction should be gained from participation, improvement and competitive performance without emphasis on win at all costs.
  • Coaches must ensure that the skills of the game are correctly taught and it is vital that each and every player receives the same opportunity to develop.

    REFEREEING

  • A purely technical interpretation of the laws of rugby is contrary to the spirit of the game.

  • Referees should adopt an encouraging and educatiional, rather than punitive, whistle-happy approach.

  • Dangerous play should be quickly and firmly dealt with, but again the emphasis should be on the educational approach.

    SUMMARY

  • Keep it simple, free-flowing and enjoyable.

  • Let players develop skills with safety.

  • Adopt an educational approach with positive re-inforcement.

  • Ensure players receive an equal opportunity to participate.

  • Discourage dangerous play and poor sportsmanship

 

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COACHING MATERIAL:

The club is now in possession of the coaching material from CanCoach and the
Queensland Rugby Union:

CanCoach Sport Planner 10 CD
CanCoach BCRU Mini Rugby 10 CD
CanCoach Individual and Mini-Unit Skills and Drills 6 CD
QRU Walla Rugby Activity Set 3 CD

The CanCoach activity sets are designed to work the the Sport Planner which
means that you will need to install the Planner in order to access the
activity sets. Apart from installing the product key, which is included with
the CD, please enter the following when prompted:

Name: Stanley Fort Rugby
Password: Coach

The material will be available in the pavillion but please ensure that you
sign for and return all CD's that are borrowed.

A coaching manual that has been produced by the Australian Rugby Football Union Pdf Format (234KB) is a comprehensive introduction to coaching
mini-rugby and can be downloaded from this site.

Additional coaching material is available on the net from the following
sites:

International Rugby Board
Rugby Football Union
BBC Rugby Union Academy

Details of coaching and refereeing courses that are organised by the Hong
Kong Rugby Football Union can be found HERE. After reaching the 'Latest
News' page just enter the most recent update. Contact should then be made
with the Hong Kong Rugby Football Union to obtain details and to register.

The club is intent on maintaining a coaching library so as to provide all
coaches with access to coaching drills and techniques so please monitor this
site to obtain details of all new material.

 

LEG INJURIES

Interesting leading article in the British Medical Journal. A large Scandanavian study has confirmed that warm up exercises before pivot sports (includes rugby) significantly reduce knee and ankle injuries in youth sport.

Moderate injuries were reduced by more than 50% and severe injuries (eg cruciate ligament tear) by significantly more.

The study also suggests that intervention programmes with training that encourages balance and positional awareness especially of the knee and ankle produce long lasting benefit and are best instituted very early ie less than age 12

The original paper recruited handball players and is available on http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/330/7489/449 there are some pictures and specific exercisies.It is really the principles that are important rather than a specific series of exercises.

There are a number of reasons why early intervention makes a difference (many of you know how boring I am when I get on this subject). This study is important because it confirms that how you train very young kids not only affects their performance but also significantly reduces their risk of serious sports injury when they are much older.

I think the key coaching message is that relatively simple principles can be adopted into sport specific and age specific drills/games. That is really the long term goal, rather than spending 15 minutes of every session doing the same specific repetitive warm up exercises the kids would be training/playing (warming up)without even realizing that one of the specific goals of the session is to improve their balance and positional awareness in the same way that you may set a specific goal to improve their penalty taking or tackling

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