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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 guest: Jess Bunyard, Editor Women's Rugby Coaching magazine, Head of women's and girls rugby and assistant academy coach at Huddersfield RUFC.  The team pick discuss their experiences of pre-season so far, how the return from Covid has been managed and it's impact on planning and delivery. Women's Rugby Coaching – Rugby Coach WeeklySUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED How To Sustain Success ft Adam Peaty - From Paper to Podium How Humble Leadership Really Works – Harvard Business ReviewDoing hybrid management work in elite sport: the case of a head coach in top-level rugby union – Hall et al, (2020)Effective Sports Coaching: A Systematic Integrative Review – Mills and Clements (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.This week's guest:Dan Cox, Lecturer at SGS Filton, Phd Student at Edinburgh University, Old Redcliffians RFC Head Coach, Bristol Bears Pathway Coach and Somerset RFU Senior Men's Head Coach.Dan and Phil discuss their experiences of pre-season so far, how the return from Covid has been managed and it's impact on planning and delivery.SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSEDCan You Be Great Without Being Obsessed?How have Dual Career Athletes Coped During the Covid-19 Pandemic?The 18 best motivational podcasts that could change your lifeThe emergence and perpetuation of a destructive culture in an elite sport in the United KingdomYou Can’t Know What You Need Until You Know What You’ve Got – Jack DoddTo 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 textDave Collins is a Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and director at Grey Matters Performance Ltd. As an academic, Dave has over 350 peer review publications and 70 books/chapters. As a practitioner, he has worked with over 80 World or Olympic medallists plus professional teams and performers. He has coached to national level in three sports, is a 5th Dan Karate, Director of the Rugby Coaches Association, Fellow of the Society of Martial Arts and BASES, Associate Fellow of the BPS and an ex Royal Marine.https://www.greymattersuk.com/info@greymattersuk.com In this Deep Dive we discuss all things mentoring:What does mentoring mean to Dave?The importance of Conditional Knowledge - "It Depends"What happens when there is a mismatch between mentor/mentee expectations of how the relationship should workLetting go as a mentor and aiming to make yourself redundantThe difference between Competencies and Competence - developing expertise through mixed mode mentoringDave's research on professional judgement and decision making and its use as a framework for coachesNaturalistic and Classical Decision Making - high stakes, fast decisions and slow deliberate thinkingUsing Classical Decision Making to aid Naturalistic Decision Making under pressureThe big five questions coaches can use to reflect on their decision making process. What did you do? Why with what goals? What alternatives did you consider? What would have changed in the context to make you choose an alternative? How will you know and when that you've made the right decision?The Applied Cognitive Task Analysis framework as a tool of reflective practiceAssessing the effectiveness of a mentor/mentee relationship - process vs outcomesTwo way challenge in the mentor/mentee relationship - the Zone of Uncomfortable DebateResearch mentioned:Making Mentoring Work: The Need for Rewiring Epistemology - https://bit.ly/MakingMentoringWork The importance of an effective mentor in developing Coach expertise https://bit.ly/ReflectionInMentoringProfessional Judgment and Decision Making: The Role of Intention for Impact - https://bit.ly/PJDMCollinsMartindaleMuscular collision chess: A qualitative exploration of the role and development of cognition, understanding, and knowledge in elite level decision making - https://bit.ly/MuscularCollisionChessDeveloping coaches’ professional judgement and decision making: Using the ‘Big 5’ - https://bit.ly/PJDMBig5Professional Judgement & Decision Making in Sport: To Jump or not to Jump - https://bit.ly/PJDMJumpOrNotCognition at the Crime Scene: Identifying Cognitive Demands on Professional Judgement & Decision Making in Expertise of Crime Scene Examiners - https://bit.ly/AppliedCognitiveTaskAnalys 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 in a departure from the Rodeo, reflects on what he's learned from coaching during a week on Sedbergh Courses.This week's guests:Jason Duffy, Sedbergh Courses Manager and Adam Gallagher, Rugby Coach at Trent College and Sedbergh Courses.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:Ian Ridge, Community Football Coach and Sports Coaching Masters Student at Worcester University and Tom Reid, Head Coach Stourbridge Ladies Football Club and Sports Coaching Masters Student at Worcester University.The team pick out the key takeaways from each piece of great content and discuss how it can be applied to coaching.This week's contentThreshold Concepts in Physical Education – Fiona Chambers Determinants of Cycling Performance: a Review of the Dimensions and Features Regulating Performance in Elite Cycling Competitions - Kathryn Phillips and William Hopkins SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED Threshold Concepts in Practise – Ray LandOn Point – Disney PlusWhen Eagles Dare  - Amazon PrimeTo 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 awarding winning coaches Dan Lycett and Ross Williams about their approach to coaching. Dan is head of PE and Sport and Ross is head of Athletic Development at St David's College, in North Wales. They've won the Independent Schools Association award for outstanding sport (small school) and been nominated for the Independent Schools Association award for innovation, recognising their provision during lockdown.We chat about how they have introduced a more ecological approach to their coaching, allowing their players to find meaning and have a more self-determined approach.In a wide-ranging discussion, here are some of the key topics we covered:How do you make fantastic athletes, even with a very diverse group of playersWhat is meant by finding meaning and why it is so importantHow do you frontload trainingWhat is a rich environment and how does this lead to self-determinationWhat are the challenges of setting up this type of curriculumHow long does it take to develop this sort of approachUsing "bingo" to challenge players helping players to reflect Fitting gamification and scaffolding into a sessionWhat does an ecological approach mean LINKShttps://www.stephenrollnick.com for more on Motivational Interviewing 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 textDan speaks to RFU national panel referee Adam Wookey about age grade tackle height changes, ball carrier height laws plus the new 50:22 and drop outs instead of 5m scrums being trialled at international rugby.They discuss:How to referee the tackle heightWhat does the ball carrier height into contact meanWhat do both look like Why a community referee has one shot, so best ways to deal with thatHow to referee this area sympathetically but firmlyWhat are the new laws around the 50:22 kick and how referee thatWhat are the new laws around the ball being held up over the lineHow both might allow the game to work more effectivelyLinks to the LawsFrom The Rugby Paper on 50:22 and 5m scrumsFrom the RFU on tackle height and the ball carrier dip experimentTo 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 speaks to Bristol Bears defence coach, Omar Mouneimne.Omar has coached with the Springbok 7s, the Sharks and Stomers Super Rugby teams, the Italian national team, Stade Francais, Edinburgh, Worcester Warriors as well as plenty of consultancy work.He set up his coaching website, Whistle-2-Whistle during lockdown, which provides lots of defence coaching resources, plus support and growth leadership for coaches.In the podcast Omar and Dan cover these topics:What do you look for when you first arrive at a new clubHow do change weak tacklers into great tacklersHow do you energise players to become better defendersWhat are the key techniques good defenders needWhy do you NOT coach low tackles for young players when the start their tackle journeyWhat system do you use at the ruckHow do you change players into skilful defenders who make better decisionsWhy shouldn't use tackle tubes and ruck shieldsHow do you balance contact time in training with keeping fresh for games 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 textDan speaks to coaches Mike Pope and Rhys Williams about how they've used what they've learned from reading Doug Lemov's book: A Coach's Guide to Teaching.Here are some of Doug's thoughts after listening to the podcast (more notes on the Rugby Coach Weekly website):Until it comes unprompted when we aren’t reminded to think about it, we probably haven’t learned it.“Interleaving is always with something you’ve already talked about.” Hugely important clarification for coaches that I hadn’t thought to make… though I will now.Here are the key areas Dan, Rhys and Mike discussed:Rhys's six week plans: how they work in the context of what he took from the bookUsing feedback more effectively: examples, scenarios and maintaining flow in the session. Plus shortening the feedback loopHow interleaving makes learning stickHow the Forgetting Curve works for rugby playersTough feedback which creates pressureDesirable difficulty in trainingRhys is a youth rugby coach, plus works with Saracens DPP.Mike is a school's head of rugby , senior mens coach, plus a lead coach with Bath DPP. 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:Ian Hollingworth, Andy Stevens and Nick Wilkinson all of whom are preparing for the Rugby Advanced Coaching Award.  The team discuss their thoughts and preparation for the up coming England RACA course and this is the first in a four-part series which will follow them across the next 12 months. SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED Understanding Organisational Cultures in Elite Sport - Dr Niels Feddersen (Pt1) - Meaningful Sport SeriesCreate great conversation – The Coaching LabThe Magic Academy with Doug LemovCoach A Long Social – Wimbledon – UK SportEuro 2020: how football managers and coaches control the narrativeNeuroscientists Have Discovered a Phenomenon That They Can’t ExplainDare to speak your mind and together we flourish Simon DeDeo on How Explanations Work and Why They Sometimes Fail Taking the Next Step: Ways Forward for Coaching ScienceUnderstanding Unconscious BiasIs It Time To Introduce Emotional Intelligence Into Sports Coaching?Talking Performance Episode 51 with Special Guest Ed CoughlanThe Rogue Monkey Podcast with Richard CheethamTo 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!