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
http://www.1RugbyCoach.com
Concern#3
By · CommentsConcern#3 “So What’s It Going To Cost Me?”
I’ve been getting tons of questions from coaches wanting more details about the upcoming launch and the 3rd most asked question is “What’s this going to cost?”
Now I’m still working on the final website bonuses but would like to address your “price” concerns up front. (I can tell you that you definitely won’t need to take out a 2nd mortgage:-) )
Bur before I get specifically into price, let me warn you that this information is positively NOT for everyone.
It is FOR YOU if you are already doing some coaching in one way or another. If that’s the case, then I can promise you, “This information which I’m going to share with you WILL be responsible for every one of your team improving his/her Core Rugby Skills and hey, even improve yourself as a rugby coach.
It’s an absolute no-brainer and shoe-in (unless you have a ‘know it all’, ‘seen it all’ attitude.) Or you like to whine and complain. In that case, please, please, please do us both a favour and save everyone a huge headache by allowing somebody else to take your spot and profit from this information. (You should probably stop reading right nowJ)
It is also FOR YOU if you are a complete newbie but very very serious about improving as a rugby coach.
This is a golden opportunity to be provided with a true shortcut and road map from multiple sources who have a huge amount of experience in rugby coaching.
So back to the original question and what kind of price tag should I put on this information?
Frankly this is going to be one of the biggest bargains you’re going to get form me.
I recently attended a 2 day elite coaching seminar in Australia which cost me £177 and that’s not including airfare, hotel, food etc and one colleague argued that I should charge at least twice this amount for a “12 month subscription”.
I seriously considered this £29.50/month (£354/year) but in the end I decided against that.
I wanted to put this into the hands of as many serious amateur coaches WITHOUT price being a barrier so I’m thinking of charging £14.75/month (£177/year) which works out at less than a couple of beers after each game.
At this price it should put it into the reach of anyone who really needs and wants it.
Now none of this is set in stone yet so don’t hold me to it.
I’m not 100% sure about the price, or that I’ll increase it, however, since I’ve had so many people asking me about the price I wanted to pull back the curtain a bit and give you a glimpse into what I’m thinking. If you’d like to voice your opinion, please post a comment below and stay tuned for more updates.
Speak soon
Neil
http://1RugbyCoach.com
