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Rugby Skills & The Coaching Environment 
Stuart Lierich, Specialist Kicking Coach
The greatest advantage for teams 
will be the ability of coaches to 
continually improve the quality of 
learning environment
Kicking & The Rugby Coaching Environment
Coach The Player, Not The 
Program....
Smooth seas don't make skilful sailors.
Kicking & The Rugby Coaching Environment
Skill or Game 
Awareness? 
or both?
Instruction & 
Feedback 
supercharge your communication
Coaching With 
Analogies 
painting pictures
Empowerment 
Coaching 
to develop proactive players
Questioning As 
A Tool 
probing for the right information
Kicking & The Rugby Coaching Environment
Skills Session Inclusions 
Perception 
Context 
Cues 
Challenge 
Variability
It's Not All About Mechanics 
Pre Performance 
Routine 
Distraction 
Focus of Attention 
Visualisation Scripts 
Emotional Intelligence
Kicking 
Mechanics
Whole of Body 
Movement 
not merely a swing of the leg...
Contact Quality 
between ball & foot
Kicking & The Rugby Coaching Environment
Impact Line 
path of knee, foot & ball
Kicking & The Rugby Coaching Environment
Transfer of 
Weight 
momentum through impact
Kicking & The Rugby Coaching Environment
Kicking & The Rugby Coaching Environment
Your coaching performance can be 
described in patterns of behaviour. 
The most effective patterns become 
the most effective performances.

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