Choices – give the players the decision is one of 3 principles a puffing Magic Academy’s Rusty Earnshaw delivers to coaches in his modified games session at the YRCF2024.

Are your coaching goals for your team aligned with your coaching group? Have you asked the question? Just one of the many questions Rusty poses to his coaching group during his YRCF2024 classroom session.

Coaching – is helping people help themselves. Giving your players’ ownership is Magic Academy’s Rusty Earnshaw’s theme for coaches in this week’s release. This theme underpins Rusty’s 2nd YRCF2024 coaching group session.

Problem solving rather than building frustration. Create an environment for your players to solve problems while playing rather than getting frustrated. Rusty takes his problem solving principles out onto the pitch, this time at the USA Rugby Summit 2024 with a group of Norcal players and coaches. This session he sharing ideas of how to enable the game-based problem solving while at training. You don’t know how the game is going to be played so why not replicate the uncertainty with your team at training

What they want and what the need may not be the same Building a framework to develop player decision making is Rusty’s focus in part 2 of his Coach Development series. Layering levels of complexity to modify simple games to build the capability. Identify the skill purpose and then implement the game modification. You don’t know how the game is going to be played so why not replicate the uncertainty with your team at training