Now there have been times when I’ve been accused of being a ‘softy’ when it comes to training in inclement weather, opting to go indoors rather than brave the elements. As a coach, I do prefer to train in all conditions as there might / will come a time when players will have to play [...]
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Indoor Training
Posted in Fitness, General Posts, tagged communication, drills, touch, training on 21/11/2010 | 4 Comments »
Two-Handed Touch of Twos
Posted in Fitness, Tactical, tagged attack, awareness, running, tactics, touch, use of space on 18/03/2010 | Leave a Comment »
I was going through the files I’ve collected recently ensuring that I had all the new things I wanted to try in my mind for the beginning of the Ontario season. Among them was a different version of Touch which I’m sure I found as part of Dan Cottrell’s Better Rugby Coaching page – a [...]
That Added Touch … Rugby, That Is!
Posted in Fitness, News / Issues, Tactical, tagged attack, tactics, touch, use of space on 30/11/2009 | 2 Comments »
I don’t think we play enough ‘proper’ Touch Rugby here in Canada – already I’ve lost the attention of tight five forwards, but watching Australian front rowers yesterday with better hands and tactical awareness (how good are the ‘Bens’ – Robinson and Alexander?) than your average Canadian fly half only proved how useful it is [...]
Post-Match Drinking
Posted in Fitness, News / Issues, tagged alcohol, nutrition, recovery on 27/11/2009 | Leave a Comment »
No quirky titles here, as this is a topic I’m always very serious about. I’m pretty ‘famous’ as a rare non-drinking rugby guy among my friends and colleagues. Drinking seemingly always has had a significant role in rugby’s social culture, and I’m not going to preach about the ‘evils of drink’ like some 1920s Temperance [...]
“That #$%*in’ Beep!” – The test we all love to hate.
Posted in Fitness on 11/11/2009 | 4 Comments »
If there were ever times in my life when I wished the world would open up and swallow us all, it was those days in PE when the teacher would inform us that we’d be running the beep test. I’m sure you all know this as a multi-stage fitness test where you run back and [...]
