This course is designed to provide active coaches with the skills needed to coach teenage and adult players in the club or school environment. It aims to develop coaches who know 'how' to coach as well as 'what' to coach.

On successful completion, the coach will be able to:

• Identify technical and generic coaching skills
• Self-reflect on own performance as a coach
• Define the core values of Rugby Union
• Develop a coaching and playing philosophy
• Identify coaching methods/styles and apply to own practise
• Use the principles of attack and defence to analyse the play of a team
• Plan and review a cycle of 6 sessions
• Use key factors analysis as a tool for player improvement
• Demonstrate safe coaching of individual and unit skills
• Understand the concept of functional role analysis
• Develop some criteria for selection
• Discuss contemporary law issues

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