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A ‘gentle’ pass inside 2-3 metres TO your teammate not THROUGH them.
Experienced Australian rugby coach and educator Peter Koen is on Australia’s Gold Coast with the local Eagles club U16s players.
In this series, Peter introduces the players to a ‘Sympathetic Pass’.
Note: Not a pass is dropped in the making of the video.
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As experienced Australian coach Peter Koen progresses his Sympathetic Catch and Pass series his focus is on positive improvement with his Gold Coast Eagles players.
The drill progression is not complicated but the messaging around it is key – always explaining the ‘why’ to the players and compliment the good execution
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Understand what you are doing first so you can then improve it
This was experienced Australian coach Peter Koen objective with his final Gold Coast Eagles U16 players session.
Using a Ruck D drill as the base activity, Peter challenges the players understanding of what they were doing rather than just focusing on the execution of the skill.
Try it at your next training (all ages) – you might be surprised what your players know.
From the community
Simple but very interesting! Thanks Peter
Very simple and great drills. Building up good habits in passing and squaring up in attacking. Great coaching with depth of experience. Thanks Peter
Really appreciate the simplicity of the progression and the reminder to us as coaches to help players start with good technique or to help veterans get better. thanks
Great stuff, even with senior players, I am using it, its hard though, for years they have been learning bad habits….
Good introduction to improving the catch-pass technique in one movement
well done
Simple,basic,fundamental but still needs constant repetition.
