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Send us a textAndy Brownhill, head of rugby at Park House School, Newbury, a pathway coach with Gloucester academy and a coach with Scotland U16s, opens up about his struggles with mental health.In this moving story, he shares with us what happened, how he found help and how we can help ourselves and help each other.Frankly, I love doing podcasts to find out more about rugby and sport.This podcast was on a different level for me. First, that Andy is so brave. Second, because I was in completely uncharted territory for me, yet it made so much sense. And third, due to the impact it has made on my life and my way forward.I implore you not to pay lip-service to mental health education, support and development.Even if you don't listen to the podcast, please take time to visit some of the links I've put below.Thanks to Rich Berry and Sam Jarman for their support. If you feel you need to reach out to anyone, or find out more, then all four of us are more than happy to listen.E: andrewbrownhill91@gmail.comT: @AndrewBrownhilE: dan.cottrell@rugby-coach.comT: @Dan_CottrellE: richberry@grfu.orgW: Easier to build strong children than broken menW: https://keepyourbootson.co.uk/supporting-mental-health-in-rugby-webinar/E: Sam@sportsprinciples.comW: sportsprinciples.comW: https://sportsprinciples.com/2019/07/11/its-ok-not-to-be-ok/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 Geraint Davies, Liam Dunseath and Andy Fradgley review some of the many great podcasts and webinars from the last week.The team pick out the key takeaways from each episode and how to use it on the pitch, at all the levels of the game.Also, there's a preview of the highlights for the coming week.Here's the list of podcasts and links:DiscussedEngland Rugby – Stuart Lancaster – Principles of Attackhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1KFAeo2soNzvBxHQ8f18MmPk0GqiAt5BT/viewPractice Design with Danny Newcome & Ed Hallhttps://app.coach-logic.com/video/296588 Rugby Ontario – Research to Practise Series – Amanda Visek - FunMapshttps://youtu.be/xLMkeK3_KTI Movement & Skill Acquisition Ireland with Ric Shuttleworthhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mLtKBTlgyk&feature=youtu.be Coachlogic - Warren Abrahams – Practice Designhttps://www.buzzsprout.com/981331/3223468-great-practice-design-how-to-support-player-development-warren-abrahamsMagic Academy – Eddie Jones https://player.fm/series/the-magic-academy/season-4-episode-16-with-eddie-jonesEngland Rugby – Tuesday Training with Eddie Jones https://www.englandrugby.com/news/article/weekly-online-coaching-webinars?jwsource=clCOMING UP THIS WEEKicoachkids: Talent Development Systems Friend or Foe? Prof Kevin TillDay - Friday 1st May Time - 2pm  UKhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMMDMadlmu15v-Wo4-c-vOwTracy Neville – The high performance podcastCurrently Availablehttps://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tracey-neville/id1500444735?i=1000471298944British Columbia Rugby Union – Ladies Who Lead series – Heather Wilson-BanksDay – TuesdayTime - 3am UKhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUlc-GorD0qH9EqfZCoF1pLdPmPyYcv4fwqMagic Academy – John Fletcher, Russell Earnshaw and GuestsDay – WednesdayTime - 7pm UKhttps://www.themagicacademy.co.ukhttps://www.coach-logic.com/magic-academy/Other Useful LinksGary Neville opens up on his time at Valencia & explains why he'll never coach again | Off Scripthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qk04dh4RxgUK Coaching – Skill Acqusition – Stuart Lancaster 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 textWelcome to the Rugby Coach Weekly...Haunted House, featuring:Bruce Aitchison, housemaster at Merchiston Castle School, Level 3 coach, former coach at cup winning Boroughmuir, played and coached across the globe. Creator of Happiness is Egg Shaped.Geraint Davies, Head of PE and Games at Leicester Grammar School, Head Coach at Nuneaton RFC, a coach with Gloucester Academy and a Senior Coach Developer and Level 3 mentor, video analysis guru on Twitter and YouTube.Phil Llewelyn, just back from coaching in Canada, former Player Development Officer with England Rugby and Talent Developer with Ireland Rugby and a former national league head coach with Hinckley RFC.These three unsuspecting coaches were invited to enter the Haunted House. I lead each one into a room where they faced a terrifying rugby scenario. Each one was challenged to find a coaching solution. On the spot, no preparation and no get out clauses. Sink or swim.The other two coaches listened on, and at the end of the solution offered alternative views. We then commented on those solutions, before we went off to the next room.Please drop your own solutions in Twitter @rugbycoachweekFor more details on the brilliant answers we hear about in the episode, go to: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 textPeter Russell is very experienced coach, having worked with premier teams across the rugby globe. He was head coach of Hawkes Bay, assistant coach with the Highlanders Super Rugby team, head coach at the Newcastle Falcons and the NEC Green Rockets in Japan. He is now head coach at the Manawatu Mitre 10 Cup team. In the pod, he was keen to chat about the game plan concept, trends and the exposure of defence systems. In this detailed podcast, here are some of the many areas we covered:What is meant by an attacking part of a game planWhat are the key elements to this game planHow does an attack breakdown the modern, aggressive defensive systemsWhy "shape" comes secondHow does "shape" work, for example, with a 1,3,3,1 systemWhat happens in training to enable the game plan to workWhat's the role of kicking in a game planWhy we need to think about the width of passes from the base of a ruckWhat the All Blacks disastrously forgot against the Lions in 2017To find out more around the topics covered this podcast, go to the Rugby Coach Weekly page on this podcast.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 textRhys Davies is an Academy Coach Development Officer at London Irish, as well as head coach with HAC mens team in London and Berkshire Ladies. He has taken social media by storm with his great resources around being more effective as a coach when using different games. In this podcast, we develop his themes around challenges, effective coaching and how to manage training to give players a fantastic game experience. Here are the main areas we coveredHow do you challenge coaches positivelyCommon threads/areas that need to be challengedWhat are you challenging in the way they are coaching though their types of practiceWhat is the balance between games and other activities in trainingDrills – why this is still okay to use as a wordPreparing questions before training to help guide a planHow to react to a session which goes off in a different directionUsing constraints to change ways to succeed Why innovation shouldn’t always be a surprise to youGood ways to create problem-solving situationsDo all players want to play games in training, all the timeHow drill videos online are relatable to playersWhat makes games in training more powerfulWhat’s the most efficient way to introduce a gameWhat’s missing because we concentrate on winningHow do we intervene effectively during a gameGiving players more autonomy in training – practically, so all players can be access the opportunitiesThe benefits of using balls from other sports and the right balance What are the measures of success in a gameHow do we create differentiated questions, because not all the players need them same challengesTo get in touch with Rhys to find out more:@rugbyrhys9Rhys.davies@london-irish.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 textGordon MacLelland, CEO of Working With Parents in Sport, outlines the key elements for an effective communication policy between the coach and parents.He identifies the key difficulties, practicalities and what parents want to hear and when.It is part of a series of podcasts on working effectively with parents.To find out more visit Working With Parents In Sport.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 textMark is head coach of Scottish Premiership one club, the Currie Chieftains. He is also co-founder of Coach Logic, a collaborative video analysis platform for sports. Their mantra is to #connectthegame through video. In this pod we talk about the how video analysis can be used positively by coaches, recognising that it can come with some health warnings and pitfalls. Here are some of the areas we cover:From a novice coach's point of view, where do you start when you look at footageWhat is meant by "priming" the player through videoFilming effectively with your phoneExamples of how we can watch back footage more effectivelyQuestions around players who are "off the ball"Effectively communicate our findingsHow to avoid too many "targets"Positive outcomes which makes players who want to be on filmWays to keep all the different positions involved, even if they have less "ball time" than others.How to use video of yourself to improve your own coachingDue to the extraordinary circumstances that face clubs, Coach Logic are offering their platform free to coaches for the next three months ('til June 2020).For more on Coach Logic, click here.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 textGed Hall coaches across a wide range of ages and abilities. A deep thinker about his coaching, he shares with us practical solutions and thoughts around what a good training session might look like.Ged is a DPP coach with Sale Sharks, youth development manager with Sandbach RFC and a coach at Haberdashers’ Abraham Darby School.In this podcast, we delve into:What does practice design really look likeGetting the right balance between planned and unplannedWhat mastery means for different age groupsDefining purposeWhat does your coaching plan look like on a piece of A4 paperHow long should run an activity for - getting your timings rightHow to use skills zones at the right timeCoach interventions: when, how and what should be saidThe detail of coaching the tackleContesting possession: what might a good practice session look likeWhat mistakes do you see your players making and how do you help them resolve themCreating "shape" even in a chaotic game - why that might workTo 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 textSophie Spence, former Irish XV’s and 7’s rugby international player and now coach of Penclawdd Men’s Division 1 team, talks about her coaching journey as a converted netball player with Liza "Bird" Burgess. Her passion, love and enthusiasm for the game shines through the podcast, along with her relentless drive to become a better coach.In the pod, Bird and Sophie discuss:Moving late from netball to rugby, and how sports skills can transferFrom international rugby player into coaching, women's and men'sMoving the game into becoming professionalAdvice to aspiring coachesHow to learn from listening to others, and being vulnerableFrustrations in developing the gameCreating a girls rugby academyThe differences between women's and men's rugby coachingCoaching a men's team in WalesTo 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 textAre your training sessions giving the players the best learning? Is your coaching allowing them to become more creative?Paul Kirschner and Carl Hendrick are leading experts in the learning world. In their latest book, How Learning Happens, they introduce us to 28 giants of educational research and their findings on how we learn and what we need to learn effectively, efficiently, and enjoyably.Using Paul and Carl's expertise, we translate their findings into sporting contexts.Here are some of the many areas we cover:The difference between playing and learningHow the coach can intervene in play to enhance learningThe inefficiency of discovery learningWhat's too much coachingHow spaced practice can accelerate learningThe key differences for learning between the classroom and the training groundWhat does "expressing yourself" really mean - and where it can go wrongWhy we might have to suppress fun and playfulness at timesMotivation and success - the mythWhy you should be thinking more about your retrieval practicesWhy schools don't kill creativity and what lessons you can learn from thatTop tips on practice designLearning why what you do works, so can keep doing it, or change to doing something elseHow Learning Happens: Seminal Works in Educational Psychology and What They Mean in Practice is out now (4th March 2020). Click here to order.And as a special offer to our listeners, you get a 20% discount if you apply this code: BSE20Paul A. Kirschner is Emeritus Professor of Educational Psychology at the Open University of the Netherlands as well as Guest Professor at the Thomas More University of Applied Science in Belgium.Carl Hendrick teaches at Wellington College, UK, and holds a PhD in Education from King’s College London.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!