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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 guests:Tristan Mayglothling, professional rowing coach and PhD student at the University of Essex, Peter Prickett, football coach and author and Ian Johns, Paralympic head coach for GB Judo. 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:Technique is the basis of everything – Pepijn Lijnders (Liverpool Football Club Assistant Manager)Athlete A – Netflix The Impact Code: Live the Life You Deserve – Nigel RisnerSUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSEDBelieved – Athlete A Podcast follow up 'Only by speaking out can we create lasting change': What can we learn from the Dr Larry Nassar tragedy? - Mountjoy, (2018) – Free research paper following up Athlete AConsilience with Hugh Gilmore –  Shannon BeerMotivational Interviewing and Beyond – Stephen RollnickA Boy in the Water – Tom GregoryWho Moved My Cheese: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life – Spencer JohnsonTurn the Ship Around!: A true story of Building Leaders by Breaking the Rules – David Marquet 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 textLiza “Bird” Burgess and LJ Lewis discuss a round of questions about the practicalities of the game. In this episode, they are with Sophie Bennett, the Bath team manager.Sophie, having played and coached rugby herself,  she was the WRU National Programme Co-ordinator. This role included team management of Wales U16s boys, Wales Women (XVs and 7s) and Cardiff Blues age groups. She was also team manager of Great Britain 7s.Here are the questions posed to Sophie:Can you give us a little detail on how you moved from coaching into the WRU Women’s Manager role?What led to you getting the team manager role with Bath Rugby?What would you say is the most challenging part of your role as team manager?If you could go back in time, what advice would you give your younger self? (When you were coaching?)Did you think you would make a career in men’s professional rugby? Have you faced any obstacles? How do you manage family life with your full-time career as team manager for Bath Rugby?What advice would you give to young females wanting to pursue either a playing, coaching or managerial role in rugby?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:Pat Metcalf-Jones, Oxford University co-head coach, Oxford Brooke's women's head coach and Oxford Harlequins women head coach, Clarissa Murphy, RFU Coach Developer and Sheffield Ladies RUFC head coach, Benedicte Williams, head of women's development at Worcester Rugby and women's lead at Worcester RFC.  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 Rugby Dungeon - with Rob BaxterEmpathy by Simon Sinek The Sports Psych Show – with Amy Price SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSEDHow to improve the learning environment through modelling - The Learner LabCommunication skills for coaches with Hugh Gilmore – Shannon Beer podcastThe Essence of Leadership with Randall Stutman – The Knowledge Project Great Leadership in Female Sport with Anson Dorrance – UK CoachingTo 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 textAndy Stevens and David Sharkey join Jess Bunyard on Breaking The Pane to discuss themes and storytelling. With each person at a different stage exploring themes, the group travel through their own experiences offering a guide to anyone wishing to add theming to their coaching toolbox. The trio also discusses whether there are any differences in storytelling within men's and women's teams and at what age can a team be introduced to theming.David Sharkey is currently teaching English at Hampton School alongside coaching at the Honorable Artillery Company. He combined his love of rugby and a fascination with stories through his work as an English teacher into using theming and storytelling as a tool within coaching. He runs a website thegreatwhitesharkey.wordpress.com exploring the use of storytelling within rugby.Andy Stevens is a coach with Ellingham and Ringwood RFC, taking the lead with U12 boys and U15s girls, as well as assisting with the other girl's teams. Stevens also coaches within the RFU All Schools program and his own coaching company Cobra Sports Academy.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:Tamara Taylor, England rugby player (World Cup winner), RFU Coach Development Officer and player coach with Saracens and Emily Scott, Olympian, Commonwealth Games medallist, England rugby player and head coach at Thurrock RFC. 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 Playbook on NetflixHigh Performance Podcast with Shaun Wayne – Jake Humphrey and Damien HughesSUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSEDSkill Acquisition with Ed Coughlan and Stuart Lancaster - UK CoachingPrinciples of Great Coaching: Person Centred – UK Coaching, Helen Holmes, Karla Burton and Sophia JowettUK Coaching Resource Bank – UK CoachingAn insight in to coach mentoring with Mick Thomas -  The Sports Coaching 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!

Send us a textAndy Stevens, in his first Glass Half Full podcast, looks at the challenges and opportunities around the women's game.His guests are Bryony Cleall, an England international, Duncan Johnson, leading the girls' section at Ellingham and Ringwood, and Mary Ann Collins, Kids First Mentor and still playing at Crowthorne Ladies.The conversation talked around:The historical challenges faced by girls and women wanting to play the game they love at a higher level.The potential future of the game with the new Allianz deal supporting the Elite and Grassroots game and with RWC2021 on the horizon.The seemingly simple changes needed to nudge the female game across the whitewash to bring it more in line with the male game.@BryonyCleall @JohnnersD@miseymoo8 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:Ed Coughlan, lecturer Cork Institute of Technology and Movement & Skill Acquisition Ireland co-founder, Rick Shuttleworth, coaching developer and skill adaptation specialist and Mark O'Sullivan, AIK Head of Youth Football (8-12) and Youth Player and Coach Developer. 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:South Africa Rugby documentary - Chasing The Sun Episodes 1 to 4 (Available for 7 days from 6th November)South Africa Rugby documentary - Chasing The Sun – Episode 5 Part 1 (Available for 7 days from 6th November)South Africa Rugby documentary - Chasing The Sun - Episode 5 Part 2 (Available for 7 days from 6th November)An Ecological Approach to Learning in (Not and) Development – Adolph, 2019Learning to be adaptive as a distributed process across the coach–athlete system: situating the coach in the constraints-led approach – Orth, van der Kamp & Button, 2018SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED‘Knowing as we go’: a Hunter-Gatherer Behavioural Model to Guide Innovation in Sport Science – Woods, Robertson, Rudd, Araujo & Davids, 2020Learning in Development Framework – Mark O'Sullivan (AIK Football Club)Foundations of Task design slide - Mark O'Sullivan (AIK Football Club)PEAQ slide – Ed Coughlan (Cork Institute of Technology and Skill Acquisition and Movement Ireland)The Magic Academy Episode 16 with the Miami Sun 10s – Dave Ross and Ian Gibbons chat with Russell EarnshawThe Sport Psych Show Communication that Builds Rapport – Dan Abrahams speaks with Laurence AlisonRugby Hive with Clark Laidlaw – Dallen Stanford & Robin MacDowellTo 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 textLiza “Bird” Burgess and LJ Lewis discuss a round of questions about the practicalities of the game. In this episode, they are with Worcester Warrior coaches, Jo Yapp and Sian Moore.LJ's team Wasps had just beaten the Warriors, so there was a bit of fun to be had before they delved into these questions:How have you grown women's rugby across all your roles?What are your thoughts on the player pathway?What are the key skills for young players, especially those aspiring to the pro-game?How do you transition from player to coach?What strengths do you feel you bring to your team?How do you refine and develop your coaching?What's your best Covid-19 compliant activity?Who are your mentors?Are you a ruthless coach when it comes to selection?Tips for team talks.What are coaches getting better at these days?Jo won 70 caps for England and was captain at the 2006 World Cup. She was head coach at Exeter University, England U20s and has been director of rugby at Worcester since 2019. She is also a level 4 coach.Sian won 19 caps for Wales. She was an assistant coach at UWE mens before moving to the Warriors to be the lead coach. She is still playing.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:Paul Westgate, Nottingham Uni DoR and RFU Mentor, Giles Heagerty Assistant Head of Sport and Head of Rugby at Cheadle Hulme School and Ben Wills, Reading RFC Head CoachThe 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 High Performance Podcast with Shaun Wane – Jake Humphrey and Damien HughesThe High Performance Podcast with Jonny Wilkinson - Jake Humphrey and Damien HughesThe Language of Coaching: The Art and Science of Teaching Movement – Nick WinkelmanSUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSEDThe Playbook with Patrick Mouratoglou - NetflixJocko Willink Leadership and Discipline – Jocko WillinkThe Sports Psych Show with Cath Bishop – Dan AbrahamsTo 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 caught up with Jonny McMurtry of coachingthecoaches.net to talk about his current research. Having been involved in high-performance age-grade rugby programs across Australia for nearly 10 years, he is currently completing research in conjunction with the University of Queensland and Rugby Australia, looking at age-grade player's engagement and understanding what motivates, engages and drives players' participation.In the podcast, they explore some of his findings and align it to coaching. They pick out how individuals can sit within a team structure, what makes for a happy player in a high-pressured environment and why conversations have different outcomes depending on which position is played.Drawing on their own lived experiences, Dan and Jonny delve into motivation and coaching styles.Jonny is an experienced rugby coach and NLP practitioner. He has worked extensively with the ARU to develop coaching and player experiences.If you want to contact him directly, his email is jonny@coachingthecoaches.net.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!