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Send us Fan MailHost Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. This week's guests:Kev Mannion, head of academy performance at Gloucester Rugby and Rich Middleton. academy S&C coach at Exeter Chiefs.The team pick out the key takeaways from each piece of great content and say how to use it on the pitch, at all the levels of the game.This week's content:The Rocky Road to the Top: Why Talent Needs Trauma – Collins and MacNamara, (2012)Pacey Performance with Nick Winkelman – Pacey Performance PodcastSUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSEDTedX – Conscious Listening – Julian TreasureTo find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach WeeklyTo find out more about our Partner Club offerCLICK HEREAlso, tap into the library of 4,000 pages of activities, advice, tactics and tips to help you become the best rugby coach you can be!

Send us Fan MailDan Cottrell chats with Nick Hart. Nick is head of Courthouse Junior School in Berkshire, a CPD provider and an educational writer on his blog Thisismyclassroom. He has a sports science degree and played semi-pro soccer as a goalkeeper.Our main discussion is around scaffolding in coaching. It is probably something most of us do in some format but we might not always know why it works. Plus, it would be good to explore some other great ways to scaffold our players’ learning.For me, this pod helped embed better practice in my own mind, as well as clear up some of my misconceptions around the processes involved.In the podcast we talked about:The similarities and differences between classroom learning and on-the-field learning.What is meant by scaffolding?Ten different methods, and works well when?How coaches might use scaffolding in different situations.Follow Nick on Twitter@MrNickHartand his blogthisismyclassroom.wordpress.comTo find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach WeeklyTo find out more about our Partner Club offerCLICK HEREAlso, tap into the library of 4,000 pages of activities, advice, tactics and tips to help you become the best rugby coach you can be!

Send us Fan MailHost Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. This week's guests:Ross Ensor, Lecturer at Worcester University, UEFA B Football coach for Wolves FC and Tim Jones, PhD Researcher at Stirling University, Technical Director of Syngenta Juvs FC and host of The Developer Tribe Podcast.The team pick out the key takeaways from each piece of great content and say how to use it on the pitch, at all the levels of the game.This week's content:Questioning for learning in game-based approaches to teaching and coaching – Harvey, & Light, (2015)Skillful Neglect – Beverley LabbettSUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSEDThe Sports Psych Show - Fergus Connolly and Cody Royle on High Performance Coaching – with Dan AbrahamsThe Coaching Discourse Podcast - Decision Making with Ceriann Davies & Mike Ashford – The Coaching DiscourseDiscussing Boundaries in Coaching – UK CoachingCoach Conversation – Managing Transition  with Nick Levett and Jenny CoadyGame Spirituality: How Games Tell Us More than We Might Think – Carlson, (2017)To find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach WeeklyTo find out more about our Partner Club offerCLICK HEREAlso, tap into the library of 4,000 pages of activities, advice, tactics and tips to help you become the best rugby coach you can be!

Send us Fan MailSi Nainby deep dives with Sam Portland.Sam is a strength and conditioning coach and performance consultant who has worked for Wasps and Ealing Trailfinders. He's consulted with Kenya 7's and many individual pro-players from NFL to bobsleigh.Here's what they covered:Sam's background and why he is so passionate about speed developmentWhy rugby coaches should approach speed as a skill to be developed in the same way as passing or tacklingThe basics that underpin speed and sprintingThe difference between speed development and speed expressionHeuristics and cues for coaching acceleration and maximum speed The benefits of Extensive Plyometrics for developing a base of tolerance and teaching speedProgramming speed training into weekly and monthly cycles of rugby trainingThe importance of consistency in programming drills and exercisesHow to blend multi-directional speed with basic acceleration trainingWhy you should avoid too much competition and racing in speed developmentHow Sam developed Speed Golf and how it teaches players to understand "Slow is Smooth and Smooth is Fast"Common mistakes in speed developmentHow Sam programs gym training to support speed development and the Rollover Principle for weekly planningMoving from working for a pro team to becoming a freelance coachDeveloping streams of income within a freelance businessHow Sam is using the lessons from his time in coaching to develop other coaches through his mentorshipTo find out more and contact Sam:(w) www.coachsportland.co.uk(e) sam@coachsportland.co.uk(i) instagram.com/Coach_Sportland To find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach WeeklyTo find out more about our Partner Club offerCLICK HEREAlso, tap into the library of 4,000 pages of activities, advice, tactics and tips to help you become the best rugby coach you can be!

Send us Fan MailDan talks to Abingdon School's director of rugby Matt Gold.We discuss his own experiences of speaking to a stellar cast of coaches in his own lockdown podcast series, Goldy's Rugby Podcast. We reflect on the lessons he learned from speaking to coaches like Ben Ryan and Sir Gordon Tietjens, especially on resilience and dealing with pressure.We then explore how he developed an all-embracing season plan at Abingdon. Matt tells how he and his team of staff introduced the plan, the importance of a team approach and how he sold it to the players and the rest of the staff.We delve into the detail of a session. I challenge Matt on how his team of coaches allow for a differentiated environment and what a typical session might look like.One of the main lessons from the podcast must be that while the sessions might look rigid on paper, the coaching group is actually adjusting it all the time to suit the players.We also discuss when and how you empower your players. His story about a particular crucial half time team talk brings into shark relief the power of this approach. Matt is always delighted to chat with other coaches. Catch him on @gold_matthew or email him at matthew.gold@abingdon.org.uk.The link for his podcast is: Goldy's Rugby podcastsTo find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach WeeklyTo find out more about our Partner Club offerCLICK HEREAlso, tap into the library of 4,000 pages of activities, advice, tactics and tips to help you become the best rugby coach you can be!

Send us Fan MailHost Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. This week's guests:Tom Hartley, Senior Coach Developer at UK Coaching, Doug MacDonald, Coach Developer and Mentor for Scottish Canoe and Andrew Bradshaw, Senior Coach Developer at UK Coaching. The team pick out the key takeaways from each piece of great content and say how to use it on the pitch, at all the levels of the game.This week's content:The Tim Ferris Show – A Past Year Review – Tim FerrisCoaching Athletes to Be Their Best: Motivational Interviewing in Sports – Stephen RollnickCynefin - Weaving Sense-Making into the Fabric of Our World – Dave SnowdenSUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSEDThe Tim Ferris Show – Dr. Jim Loehr on Mental Toughness, Energy Management, the Power of Journaling, and Olympic Gold Medals – Tim FerrisHow to Organise a Children's Party – Cognitive EdgeHegarty on Creativity: There are No Rules – John HegartyDoug Lemov - The Coach’s Guide to Teaching – The Sports Psych Show hosted by Dan AbrahamsThe Magic Academy with Aiden McNulty – hosted by John Fletcher and Russell Earnshaw The Magic Academy with Scott Sneddon – hosted by John Fletcher and Russell Earnshaw The Magic Academy with Rob Mason – hosted by John Fletcher and Russell Earnshaw Let’s Talk Coaching: Bernard Jackman - The Loose Head PodcastLet’s Talk Coaching: Shaun Edwards - The Loose Head PodcastTo find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach WeeklyTo find out more about our Partner Club offerCLICK HEREAlso, tap into the library of 4,000 pages of activities, advice, tactics and tips to help you become the best rugby coach you can be!

Send us Fan MailBird and LJ welcome Katie Sadleir, general manager Women's Rugby with World Rugby since 2016 and was recognised as one of the top 10 rugby influencers (Rugby World Magazine 2020).Here are the questions they asked Katie:What has been your driving force to keep working at a strategic level? What does a typical day look like in your role as World Rugby’s General Manager? What has been your greatest moment of change/influence? How and why did you become involved in rugby? Did your educational journey help you in your passion for sport or was it outside influences that shaped you? What have you learnt/taken from your personal participation and experience at a strategic level in other sports?What advice could you give to any female’s wanting to hold a position of influence/change within sporting organisations? What are your aspirations for women’s rugby over the next five years?What has been your greatest challenge in your involvement with women’s rugby? Does the development of women in rugby include female coaches as well as players? What plans are there to grow the number of female coaches across the game and how can we support at grassroots level (as local recruitment is normally a players’ mum)?Katie is a Commonwealth Games medal winner and in 2016 was awarded Sport NZ Life Time Achievement Award for contribution to sport and recreation sector in NZ. Her impressive CV included general manager roles with NZ Academy of Sport and the NZ Sports Foundation.To find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach WeeklyTo find out more about our Partner Club offerCLICK HEREAlso, tap into the library of 4,000 pages of activities, advice, tactics and tips to help you become the best rugby coach you can be!

Send us Fan MailJamie Taylor PhD is the former head of Academy at Leicester Tigers and now working with Grey Matters as a Senior Coach Developer and the English Institute of Sport as the coaching and curriculum lead. He is a coach, coach developer and researcher in coaching science with a particular focus on talent development.In this podcast, we follow up with Jamie to take an even deeper dive into teaching, learning and decision making. We discuss:Is coaching teaching?Can classroom research transfer to sports coaching?Which pedagogical principles can help coaches plan and deliver sessionsWhy a coach needs to be much more than an environmental designerThe role of cognition in learning How coaches can use professional judgement and decision making to decide which principles and methods to use and whenWhat factors does it depend on when we say "it depends"RESOURCES/REFERENCESRobert Bjork Desirable Difficulties:https://bit.ly/DesirableDifficultyPam Richards Research on Shared Mental Models:https://bit.ly/NetballCaseStudyhttps://bit.ly/HolisticSMMFrameworkImplementing the Five-A Model of Technical Refinement: Key Roles of the Sport Psychologist:https://bit.ly/5AModelProfessional Judgement and Decision Making in SportCoaching: To Jump Or Not To Jump:https://bit.ly/PJDMPaperVisit Jamie at:https://twitter.com/jattaylor Jamie@greymattersuk.comTo find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach WeeklyTo find out more about our Partner Club offerCLICK HEREAlso, tap into the library of 4,000 pages of activities, advice, tactics and tips to help you become the best rugby coach you can be!

Send us Fan MailDan talks to Barry Frost of Pass Analysis about how you can get more all the analysis that might be available for your team. This is a very practical insight into getting more from the data, at all levels.Here are some of the main topics we touched on:What is analysisHow analysis creates new thoughtsHow do we make analysis easy to use for coaches to make sense of itWhat is the most essential information availableWinning the battle of the metricsWhat does "opportunities taken and missed" mean for a coachHow do you have positive conversations with players with the dataWhat is a perfect pass?How can we analyse decision makingWhat sort of analysis can you do when you are simply watching the gameFor more on Pass Analysis visit www.passanalysis.co.ukTo find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach WeeklyTo find out more about our Partner Club offerCLICK HEREAlso, tap into the library of 4,000 pages of activities, advice, tactics and tips to help you become the best rugby coach you can be!

Send us Fan MailHost Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. This week's guests:Dave Collins, Director of GreyMatters Performance Ltd and Professor at Edinburgh University, Jamie Taylor, senior coach developer with GreyMatters Performance Ltd and coach with Loughborough University and Andrew Cruickshank, sport and performance psychologist and lecturer at University of Central LancashireThe team pick out the key takeaways from each piece of great content and say how to use it on the pitch, at all the levels of the game.This week's content:Tacit Knowledge in Expert Coaching: Science or Art? - Nash and Collins, 2012 Effective Skill Development: How Should Athletes' Skills Be Developed? - Abraham and Collins, 2011What You Think – What You Do – What You Get? Exploring the link between Epistemology and PJDM in Cricket coaches – Crowther, Collin and Holder, 2017 Developing Coaches professional judgement and decision making: Using the 'Big 5' – Collins and Collins, 2020SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSEDImproving "impoverished practice environments" - a conversation Ian Renshaw, Peter Arnott and Graeme McDowell – The Talent Equation hosted by Stu ArmstrongCoach Developer Conversations: Bob Muir – Navigating The Terrain of Coach Learning – hosted by Andy BradshawCurious Coaching Podcast: Elaine Rice, Tandy Haughey & Lucy Moore – Sport Northern IrelandRugby Coach Weekly: Reviewing research into what keeps good young players in the game with Jonny McMurtry from Coachingthecoaches.net – hosted by Dan CottrellTo find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach WeeklyTo find out more about our Partner Club offerCLICK HEREAlso, tap into the library of 4,000 pages of activities, advice, tactics and tips to help you become the best rugby coach you can be!