Rugby Coaching Drills Video Library

Hand eye coordination (SM)

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Hand eye coordination (SM)

A great drill for small groups, lots of passes and practice.

Coaching with games

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Coaching Defence with Games

The Wasps academy manager uses games as the central learning principe for coaching defence and the systems he wants to introduce to his players

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Improving support play

Decision making is a tricky skill to coach. Danny Wild the Leeds coach uses conditioned games with breakout technical sessions to improve this process as well as working on some groundwork skills

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Breakdown - Coaching Players To Make Decisions

The coach uses a combination of drills & games to deliver a session on making decisions at the breakdown. There are some technical points and observations on the coach using classic "Tell & Yell" instructions

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Warming Up

Saracens academy coaches explain why they use games for their warm ups and show some examples

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Using Games - 'Choke Ball'

Jake Sharp from Oaklands college delivers a fun game that requires a range of skills from the players. The coach uses lots of questioning to cement the learning and talk about why games are such an important coaching tool

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Drop off touch - start with a game

Chris Kibble of Esher RFC & Whitgift school says to start your sessions with a game. In this clip Chris runs a game called "Drop touch" where the players run back to a line when they make a touch. This is good for fitness and creating wholes to attack

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