Rugby Coach - Making core skills fun

Making core skills fun. Improving the core skills is important to player and team. But players, however motivated, will need some new ways of approaching the core skill to add variety to the practices. Here are some different ways of adding an element of fun to handling activities. Variety Practice normal passing and then change to an unusual form of passing before returning to the core pass being examined. For instance when looking at offloads, make the players try one handed back flicks in the tackle for a couple of rounds of the drill. Time trials After going through some of the drills, try putting a time limit on achieving a certain target, e.g. five passes in one area followed by fives passes in another in 30 seconds. The element of pressure builds a certain amount of tension, but also can lead to players enjoying the success. If they can beat their times or other group