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Defence – How Do You Coach Communication?
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Over the past few weeks, I’ve received several questions regarding how to coach communication in your defensive line? Some were concerned about only part of their defence talking while others were more interested in having an effective slide.
Both of these are to be addressed if you wish to have an effective defensive structure. Firstly I’d just like to point out that if you’re implimenting a slide defence, it should only be utilised when you’re out-numbered or stretched and you’re having to over work at reducing the threat.
A couple of coaching points to try are;
1. In your training sessions, try to split your defence into 3 groups, left, right and middle. So your left side wing, centre, second row, half, same for the right with the loose floating and the middle consists of your front row.
2. When performing defence drills, play them against each other with penalties for the losing groups.
3. Point out that every defender only has to talk to the guy next to them
4. Once the ball goes past a defender it’s his job to increase their talk. i.e. the talk always comes from the inside when a slide defence is in operation.
5. Stop the session if the line is breached and ask the players who was at fault and how could it have been averted.
Usually after a couple of errors the players become more aware and switch on to their particular role in the slide defence.
The other advantage of working in their groups in training is they gain more of a bond and it becomes quite competitive between the groups as to who’s performing the best i.e. where are the tries being scored?
For a more in depth view on defence drills plus video go to;
Neil Harmon
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Concern#1
Posted by: | CommentsOver the past few months, we’ve heard 3 major concerns from our coaches about the impending launch of 1RugbyCoach.com and this update will address the #1 concern…
Concern#1 : “If we publish our 1RugbyCoach membership site for amateur coaches, then our killer tips tricks and techniques for coaching especially in video will be shared by everyone and will not be as effective.”
Background: A couple of months ago we let it slip to our interested coaches that we were getting ready to launch a 1 stop shop Rugby Coaching site aimed at all amateur and semi-professional coaches.
That little note in our update set of a bit of a firestorm of email from our coaches and surprisingly enough, the biggest concern was one that we just hadn’t anticipated. Our coaches told us that once we peel back the curtain and reveal these tips, tricks and techniques especially in video form, it would let the cat out of the bag and the drills would either level the playing field or become less effective.
After thinking about this, I came to the conclusion that there are literally hundreds of thousands of amateur coaches across the globe so what are the chances of all of them accessing this information.
But the biggest fact for me was that most of the elite clubs all use these drills week in week out but there are always winners and losers so it obviously comes down to the implementation of the information.
Bottom Line: With that said we are going to share this information with amatuer coaches such as yourself and you can use it as you see fit. But I will guarantee that just by using this information, you will already be putting yourself ahead of your competitors as most will not even be privvy to these core skills techniques.
Stay tuned for more details. Our anticipated release date is Tuesday 20th Oct 2009. The best way to stay informed about the launch is by joining our announcement list through one of the 3 giveaways below.
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Enjoy your rugby
Neil
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