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Send us a textBird and LJ welcome Kate Burke, Lead Pathway Analyst with England Rugby. Kate has an MSc in Sports Analysis. After working in Wales with academy teams, she moved to the RFU in 2008, working with U18s and covering the men's teams. She then joined Bath for two years as head of analysis, before returning to the RFU to oversee analysis provision across the pathway, women's, 7's and referees' departments.In the podcast, Bird and LJ asked the following questions:Why did you choose to study sports analysis?Has rugby always been the sport you wanted to work within?What would you say have been your biggest challenges working within rugby?Have you worked with any coaches or in any environments that have had a lasting impression on how you now operate in your day-to-day work? What might a typical week look like for a performance analysis working in a professional rugby environment? Have you seen the analysis role develop/change since you started in 2007?How/what do you feedback to players/coaches in terms of previews and reviews?How can a community coach, with a minimal budget, start building analysis into their environment? Are there any key areas that you would suggest focusing on?Are there any good online platforms/apps that you would recommend to coaches who want to utilise video footage more during their training week? What equipment would you suggest to get started? Have you seen any good practices from other sports that you think we could utilise in rugby to help develop our players and coaches?What current trends do you see developing within the game at the moment?Where do you see the game going over the next season? To find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer CLICK 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:Barry Maddocks, assistant coach with the Dragons in the Pro 14, AB Zondagh, assistant coach with Toulouse in the French Top 14, Warren Abrahams, head coach with the WRU for Wales Women.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:Coaches Guide to Teaching – Doug Lemov  Continuous Development During Chaos – Fergus ConnellySUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSEDGame Changer – Fergus Connelly Improving the Quality of Practise for Better Learning – The Learner Lab The Good Psychopaths Guide to Success – Kevin Dutton and Andy McNabTo find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer CLICK 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 Jess Bunyard, the editor of the world's first Women's Rugby Coaching magazine.Jess tells us why it's the right time to launch, what's different about it, and why it's all about growing the women's rugby community.She talks about the features of this issue, including dealing with menstrual cycle for players, growing a new club time and the speaking with the inspirational Sarah Ebd Albaki. Plus, she highlights some of the great activities to help girls and women develop their skills and game awareness.To find out more, visit www.womensrugbycoaching.com Also, drop Jess a line at editor@womensrugbycoaching.com if you want to be involved.To find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer CLICK 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:Danny Newcombe, Oxford Brookes senior lecturer in Sport, Coaching and PE, Coach Educator and Wales Men's Hockey national team head coach. Michael Ashford, Coventry University lecturer in Sport Coaching and Coach Educator. Luke Taylor, Oxford Brookes lecturer in Sport and Coaching Sciences and Physical Performance Coach for the FA.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 Varieties of Human Work – Steven ShorrockAttentional Focus and Cueing for Speed Development – Nick Winkelman What works in coach learning, how, and for whom? A grounded process of soccer coaches’ professional learning – Stodter & Cushion, (2017)SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSEDA Move Towards Reconceptulising Direct Instruction In Sport Coaching Pedagogy – Cope & Cushion, (2020)All Alone We Go Faster, Together We Go Further: The Necessary Evolution of Professional and Elite Sporting Environment to Bridge the Gap Between Research and Practice – Brocherie & Beard, (2021)Sports Principles – Sam JarmanHow Learning Happens - Paul Kirschner and Carl HendrickTo find out more about this podcast and many others, go to Rugby Coach Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer CLICK 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: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 Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer CLICK 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 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 Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer CLICK 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: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 Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer CLICK 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 textSi 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 Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer CLICK 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 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 Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer CLICK 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: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 Weekly To find out more about our Partner Club offer CLICK 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!