Coaching Youth Rugby
An Essential Guide for Coaches, Parents and Teachers
Published on 1. March 2014
160 pages
978-1-84797-612-3 (ISBN)
Description
Written by an experienced rugby coach, Coaching Youth Rugby is an essential guide for all coaches, parents and teachers. This one-stop practical resource will give a new coach everything they need to deliver fun, dynamic, player-centred practice sessions and guidance on how to run a team. Coaches at all levels of the game will find material and ideas aimed at helping them to formulate simple strategies to suit their level of player ability.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Marlborough
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Illustrations; 100 Diagrams; 60 Halftones, color
File size
11,23 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84797-612-3 (9781847976123)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
02/2014
The Crowood Press Ltd
€36.08
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Person
Keith Richardson played for Rosslyn Park and Bath before joining Gloucester in 1969 and converting to prop from number 8. He then captained, and coached, Gloucester for many years before moving to Harlequins as head coach. Keith is a Level 4 RFU coach and was Editor of the RFU Technical Journal. He was head coach to England Emerging Players, England 'A' and England U21s. Keith's previous book, The Rugby Coaching Manual was shortlisted for the British Sports Book Awards in 2011.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Key to the Symbols Used in this Book
- Introduction: Let the Game be the Teacher
- 1 The Youth Rugby Coach
- 2 Making Practices Fun and Practical
- 3 Tag Rugby
- 4 Coaching after Tag Rugby
- 5 Handling Skills
- 6 Developing and Improving Handling Skills
- 7 Introducing Rugby with Contact
- 8 The Scrum
- 9 The Line-out
- 10 Kicking
- 11 Defence
- 12 Coaching on Match Day
- Appendix: The New Rules for U7, U8, U9 and U11
- Index
