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Send us a textBird and LJ caught with Rachel Lund, former England international and now a Gloucester-Hartpury player who is studying to become a physio.They asked her about the following:Her journey from minis player to premiership.Combining and juggling her commitments as an international and club player whilst studying full time for a degree.Whether she would have changed to a full-time contract if she had been offered it.The importance of having many career options.Her current degree in physiotherapy.How her degree combines with her sport.Rachel began playing for Malton & Norton RUFC in North Yorkshire when she was 6 years old.In 2013 she began studying Sports Therapy at the University of Worcester and began playing for Worcester Ladies in the Premiership.In the 2014-15 season, she played for the England U20s at full back. Later that year she was capped by England Seniors whilst on tour in Canada in 2015 and was an EPS player for the 2015-16 season.Following her studies she began a full time Academy Sports Therapy role at Hartpury College, and in this role, moved from Worcester Ladies to sign for Gloucester-Hartpury in 2017.She has recently begun a masters in Physiotherapy and plans to play alongside her degree at Gloucester-Hartpury.To find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer, there's a great webinar coming up: FIND OUT MORE 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 a textBird and LJ catch up with England Women's assistant coach, Amy Turner.Amy played 59 times for England, at scrum-half, centre and hooker. She played in three World Cups and helped England win seven Six Nations Grand Slams.She is currently a World Rugby intern. Formerly a police officer, she worked for the RFU as a Performance Pathway Officer and coached men's rugby too.Here are the questions Bird and LJ asked Amy:You had a very success playing career alongside 10 years in the police. How did you balance both aspects of your life? (Any tips you can offer to developing coaches or players on how to manage your time and still achieve your goals?)As a player you were capped at 9/12/2, do you think this was a positive experience personally and for your development as a player? Does this now directly influence how you look at the positioning of players?Do you have any moments that really shaped how you now approach your coaching? Specially thinking about situations of conflict or challenging behaviours.Throughout your playing career, can you think of any coaches or situations that have developed you into the coach you are now?As you develop your coaching now, have you had any mentors/people/moments to continue pushing/challenging your philosophy as a coach?You have experience coaching both men and women, do you have to approach how you plan your sessions differently, or adapt your coaching style on field?Can you tell us a little bit about your experiences on the world rugby internship program?To find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer, there's a great webinar coming up: FIND OUT MORE 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 a textHost Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. This week's guests: Carl Woods, senior research fellow in skill acquisition at Victoria University and Ben Franks, lecturer in applied coaching science at Oxford Brookes University, coach analyst with Gillingham Women's Football club.THIS WEEK’S CONTENTMaking - Tim Ingold The Design of Everyday Things – Donald NormanSUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED Inverting the Pyramid – Jonathan WilsonHow Shall Affordances Be Refined?: Four Perspectives: A Special Issue of Ecological Psychology– Keith JonesWayfinding: How Ecological Perspectives of Navigating Dynamic Environments Can Enrich Our Understanding of the Learner and the Learning Process in Sport – Woods, Rudd, Robertson & Davids (2020)Considerations for Coaching Female Football Players: A Brief Review and Implications for Practice – Franks, Pitchers & Prosser (2021)An investigation of high-performance team sport coaches’ planning practices – Kinnerk, Kearney, Harvey & Lyons (2021)FREE ONLINE COURSESEmpowering the athlete: The coach-athlete partnership – Professor Sophia JowettPodium Psychology: How Negative Emotion Helps You To Perform At Your Best – Hugh GilmoreTo find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer, there's a great webinar coming up: FIND OUT MORE 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 a textHost Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. This week's guests: Sam Larner, Rugby Analyst, writer, rugby content creator and coach, and Brian Fitzpatrick, Rugby Analyst with Agen Rugby and owner of BF Sports Analysis. This Week’s ContentBand of Brothers Episode 1 and 2 – HBOThe Only Rule Is It Has to Work – Ben LindberghSUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED The Numbers Game – Chris AndersonHitting Against The Spin – Nathan LeamonMoneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game – Michael LewisThe Art of Smart Football – Chris BrownWhiteboard Rugby on Twitter – Sam LarnerWhiteboard Rugby on Instagram – Sam LarnerTo find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer, there's a great webinar coming up: FIND OUT MORE 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 a textDan catches up England's new defence coach, Australian former rugby league player and top level RL coach, Anthony Seibold. Now taking a short break at home after helping England with their unbeaten autumn campaign, Anthony chats to Dan about the following:How Eddie Jones wanted Anthony look at England's defence as well as other teams.How to attack against a blitz defence.Using "big rocks" as a basis for training.How to disrupt a good kicking team, like the Springboks.Using small-sided games in training.An example of a kick-pressure game you can use.When to work on technical skills in a busy week of training.What to observe in training to make a difference.Using elements of Doug Lemov's guidance on session design.The analogy of 10 tennis balls, and how it can help create clarity in your team.How to be curious, and how to make it work for you.If you want to find out more about his reference to tunnel ball, visit our explanation here.Anthony was head coach of the Brisbane Broncos and South Sydney Rabbitohs in Australia's NRL competition. He has also coached at a number of clubs including: Manly Sea Eagles, Melbourne Storm and worked as an assistant for Queensland in the State of Origin series.His playing career included spells in England with Hull KR and London Broncos, along with Canberra Raiders and Brisbane Broncos in NRL. He was most recently coaching mentor at the Newcastle Knights NRL team. To find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer, there's a great webinar coming up: FIND OUT MORE 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 a textHost Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. This week's guests: Alison Payne, executive coach and mentor, equestrian and paddle sports coach and Gary Laybourne, CEO Coach Core, track and field and academy football coach. SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED The Captains Class: The Hidden Force Behind the Worlds Best Teams – Sam WalkerThinking Fast and Slow – Daniel KahnemanHow We Learn to Move: A Revolution in the Way We Coach & Practice Sports Skills – Rob GrayThe Luck Factor: The Scientific Study of the Lucky Mind – Richard WisemanThe Real science of Sport Podcast – Ross Tucker and Mike FinchThe Perception & Action Podcast – Rob GrayTo find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer, there's a great webinar coming up: FIND OUT MORE 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 a textHost Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. This week's guests: Stuart Dixon, Programme lead for Yorkshire Rugby Academy and Alex Grieve, Developing Player Programme lead Yorkshire Rugby Academy. This week’s contentAssessing and Evaluating Player Performance and Potential: The Influence of Age. In: Rugby Football Union Player Pathway Conference – Till, K. (2019)Challenges and [Possible] Solutions to Optimizing Talent Identification and Development in Sport– Till,K. (2020)The Long-Term Athlete Development model: Physiological evidence and application – Till, et al., (2011)Considering maturation status and relative age in the longitudinal evaluation of junior rugby league players - Till, et al., (2013)SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED Why We Need Sadness (thread) - Hugh Gilmore, Podium PsychologyPerform Beyond Pressure (thread) – Rich Hudson, Author Perform Beyond Pressure Team Maturity (thread) – Cody RoyleThe Sports Initiative Podcast with Rich Hudson – Hosted by Sam HudsonTo find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer, there's a great webinar coming up: FIND OUT MORE 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 a textHost Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. This week's guests: Adam Gorman, senior lecturer in skill acquisition at Queensland University of Technology, Alex Lascu, lecturer in skill acquisition and performance psychology and PhD candidate at the University of Canberra and Rob Mason, coach developer with Port Adelaide AFL club and researcher in feedback and communication. This week’s contentEnskilment: an Ecological-Anthropological Worldview of Skill, Learning and Education in Sport – Woods, Rudd, Gray & Davids, (2021)Videos Rules For Coaches – Doug Lemov and Codex Analysis SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED Constraints Led Approach: Principles for Sports Coaching and Practise Design – Renshaw et al, (2019)Dynamics of Skill Acquisition: An Ecological Dynamics Approach – Button et al (2020)Nonlinear Pedagogy in Skill Acquisition; An Introduction – Chow et al (2015)“Train how you play”: Using representative learning design to train amateur cricketers – Lascu et al (2021)To find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer, there's a great webinar coming up: FIND OUT MORE 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 a textHost Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. The tables are turned this week as editor of Rugby Coach Weekly Dan Cottrell joins Phil to interview him on the Roundup, its journey so far and what the future may hold. Recommended Roundup EpisodesRoundup Rodeo with Mike Ashford, Danny Newcombe and Luke TaylorRoundup Rodeo with Pete Olousaga, Elliott Newell and Hugh Gilmore Roundup Rodeo with Chris Jones and Tim JonesRoundup Rodeo with Simon Mundie, Andy Morrison and Sam JarmanSUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED Silenced by Fear - Kish-Gerpart, Detert, Trevino & Edmondson, (2009)The Evolution of Rugby Analysis – George SerrallachThe Talent Equation with Dr Andy Pitchford – Stuart ArmstrongEighty Percent Mental Special on Racism in Sport with John Amaechi – Dr Pete OlousagaTo find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer, there's a great webinar coming up: FIND OUT MORE 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 a textDan Cottrell speaks to Ryan Martin about his journey to attack coach with Super Rugby team, the Melbourne Rebels.Ryan started out with Otago U10s, working his way up through the pro-game, including coaching with the New England Freejacks in the US pro-league.In the podcast, they discuss the following:Ryan's journey, what's changed and what's stayed the same.The principles that work with U10s and pro-players.How does skill acquisition work for Ryan.How do you coach the drop punt.How to narrow the focus in each session and use feedback effectively.The balance between discovery and direct instruction.How coaches like Wayne Smith provide inspiration.The role of theming in coaching.The way that a weakness was identified in passing for one player, and then how that was improved over six weeks.The performance playground.The use of the S-line to improve passing, and some of the essentials around passing.What you should work on from the very start when you are coaching passing.Making training realistic and the use of perception-action coupling.If you want to drop Ryan a line, his Twitter handle is @CoachRyanMartin where he also shares lots of great training footage. To find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer, there's a great webinar coming up: FIND OUT MORE 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!