Using a Constraints-led Approach to Skill Acquisition with Professor Ian Renshaw
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How to Teach Second-Phase Play in Rugby
When I was in New Zealand, a lot of the play is touch rugby. The Pacific Island girls do some drills and I'm just turning that into games. So it's one of the reasons why they're forwards are really skillful. They play a lot of touch rugby. But I think often when you implement the constraint, it does have an unexpected effect. Sometimes things that you don't expect to occur happen. And what happened was that with them all being a soccer background, football backgrounds, they all tended to go ahead of the ball. It actually changed the problem then, rather than doing the technical issue, it became back to a decision-making issue.
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