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Try not to assume that older players are the finished article. Keep in mind that players may come to you with bad habits that they have acquired during their playing life - and you may have to take them back to the very basics in order to achieve progression.
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Also - if you are selecting players for a team - they will often ask when they were not picked. By assessing and providing feedback, you can say why!
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Players name are noted and you list the skills that you are looking to assess. You then have the numbers 1 to 5 or 1 to 10 listed beside the skill.
As the session progesses award each player a number e.g. 1 being a poor pass off the left hand, 5 being being a good pass off the left hand but poor when pressure is applied, and 10 being an excellent pass off the left hand even when pressure is applied.
IDEA: Why not video a number of your session and then have a look at yourself coaching. Do you like what you see, the feedback that you give etc?
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Remember - you can start working within the first two cones of the L - therefore keeping the passing short - before expanding out wider to two cones, then three etc. Increasing the pass as you go.
In this case I wouldn't add defenders as the players are getting getting warmed up.
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2. Why not have the playing run the L with a tennis ball, doing their best to keep the flight of the ball flat - they will need to follow through the pass with both hands in order to do this. If you do use a tennis ball - don't forget to get a rugby ball back in there after a couple of goes with the tennis ball.
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Players are being asked to think and scan for the ball during this excercise. You might find that some players are feeling really pushed as they trip and think about almost everything at once - and this is without defenders!
Hands should be up.
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The distance between the runners can also increase as the activity progresses.
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You may also decide that you would like the players on the cones to do more. There they could complete one press-up after each pass out - increasing this as the session builds.
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OK, your team is not made up of scrum halfs, and you might argue that have four at each grid is not possible. But that is not really what this is about. I feel that in the modern game you need players that can excute a great many of what would have traditionally been described as their team-mates skills. Therefore why not get as many players working on their ability to pass from the ground as you can, and take this opportunity to evaluate their ability to excute the task.
Here are the reasons why:
You might think of putting the players passing off the ground under more pressure at the exercise progresses. The following are some suggestions:
Again many if not all of the coaching points noted above have their place, but you might think about the following.
This time I want you to has a grid that is a little bigger than what you started with, but the players are not going to keep expanding the size of the gird as the session progresses.
The difference here is that we are going to place a defender with a ruck/tackle shield into the grid - it will be their job to place the attackers under a new type of pressure. The defender should track attackers, making life hard for them.
Remember: the runner are the target - the defender should not interfer with the pass from the cones. It will be up to you to decide if the pass from the cones should be off the ground or out of the hand.
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Progression:
You might consider the following, but there won't be time for all of them:
This time I want you to has a grid that is a little bigger than what you started with, but the players are not going to keep expanding the size of the gird as the session progresses.
The difference here is that we are going to place a defender with a ruck/tackle shield into the grid - it will be their job to place the attackers under a new type of pressure. The defender should track attackers, making life hard for them.
Remember: the runner are the target - the defender should not interfer with the pass from the cones. It will be up to you to decide if the pass from the cones should be off the ground or out of the hand.
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