I will aim to keep this as up to date as possible with details of courses available for all coaches. Details of all the course available can be found in the drop down menus in this section.
Simon Jordan
Club Coaching Co-ordinator
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Calling all Coaches / Referees / Teachers,
Due to the introduction of some of the Experimental Law Variations (ELVs) after the game-wide consultation, we are holding several workshops for referees, coaches & teachers to take them through the new Laws and the implications associated with them:
ELV Workshops:
Date Time Venue
Wednesday 6th August 7-9pm Cobham RFC
Monday 11th August 7-9pm Old Blues RFC
Thursday 21st August 7.30-9.30pm London Welsh RFC
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Current guidelines for coaching courses are as follows
Level 1
New coach or minimum for lead coach
Level 2
Lead coach of Junior Club or section (U13-U18)
Develops unit skills and some tactics - 4 day course
Level 3
Lead coach of a club or U17/U18 squad
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The following couple of articles are taken from the lastest edition, June 08, of the Club Coaching Co-ordinators newsletter.
iRB rugbyready
It has now been agreed by the 3 Unions (WRU, SRU and RFU) Coaching Departments
that rugbyready will form part of the induction programme for the UKCC Level 1 qualification.
From September 2008 applicants must have completed the on-line learning module from
www.irb.com and from September 2009 applicants will have to have undertaken the 3 hour
rugbyready course.
Certification will be requested on the Level 1 as proof of completion.
The rugbyready course replaces the “Tackle Safety” and “Coaching Contact Courses” and
is essential for all coaches involved in the game – regardless of their qualification.
The emphasis is on safety, with particular regard to the tackle and scrum, and is delivered
by trained and qualified Coach Developers and Coach Educators
The course provides an extensive coaching resource and DVD and certificate of attendance.
The cost of the course is £18 (+VAT), and can be arranged at your club through your Community
Rugby Coach, Rugby development Officer or regional Coach Development Officer.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Thanks to Des Diamond, Coaching Development Manager for the following article
I am a lifelong sports participant and fan - as well as an unapologetic starry-eyed idealist
and romantic. Few things can reduce me to tears as quickly as the display of sacrifice,
honour, integrity and humility on the field of play.
To this day I still well-up when I remember in my mind's eye the courage and stamina
of the Olympic marathon runner in the '84 LA Olympics as she willed herself to the
finish line within a body that was shutting down. Or when I recall the emotion in
the voice of Ben Crenshaw describing the sportsmanship and honesty of a young 10 year
old junior golfer who lost a tournament as a result of a two stroke penalty - he called on himself.
Not many young athletes who compete will become professionals. But all will have
opportunities to display whether or not they discovered the life lessons that can only be
learned on the field of play.
That's why the events of this past week in a women’s college softball tournament
were so powerful. Mallory Holtman and Liz Wallace of Central Washington carried Sara
Tucholsky around the bases after her home run. A knee injury prevented her from running
for herself.
But the amazing thing is, Tucholsky played for the other team - Western Oregon. That
story needs to be told at the beginning of every season so coaches, parents as well as
young boys and girls, realize what it really means to excel on the playing field.
Some of our country's greatest leaders in business, education and government learned
life lessons as young people playing youth soccer, Pony League or junior golf. Lessons
that still serve them today…….to impress upon our young people today the things that
really matter when they take the field.
--Art Noyes, Houston, TX
Having been to an Under 15 Touch Rugby Festival recently it aggrieved me to see
young players (from one team especially) throwing the ball away when the decision
went against them; making a break which left the defenders 20 metres behind and
then leaving the ball for them to pick up, rather than return it to them so that the
game could recommence quickly; showboating over the line – for up to 30 seconds,
enticing the defenders to come to them before they scored in an obvious attempt at ridicule.
Thankfully this behaviour is rare – but it is becoming less so. The examples given by
Art Noyes are an example to us all. Sport is for playing and enjoying. The behaviour
displayed in the above paragraph is not only unsporting, but wastes time (the games
were only 15 minutes in duration) -time that would be better spent playing.
The fact that the team continued it’s antics throughout demonstrated a lack of any
admonishment from the coach.
OK it’s a bandwagon, but if we all get on it those heartening stories from Mr Noyes
will be commonplace in our own game. The CCC can help to shape the club’s ethos
and impress upon our young people the things that really matter!
-- GT
RFU.com 
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