Help me Improve my sons rugby please!
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Hoping that the collective of piston heads may have some ideas.
Having played rugby myself from the age go 7 until university, I introduced my son to it last year at U8 level. He is not a naturally boisterous boy but seemed to enjoy going and only ever complained once when it was bitterly cold.
This year is his first move into contact and he seems to have gone backwards. Whilst he is still happy to turn up every week he's not really getting involved choosing to stay out on the wing and avoid both the ball and the tackle.
I have a number of difficulties in trying to see some improvement.
1. He attends a local primary school that we chose specifically so he always has contacts in the area and can walk to school. The school is excellent in many ways but is lacking in its attitude to sport preferring to concentrate on more of the arts.
2. His year group is very much dominated by girls and those boys who are in his class do not live locally so meeting up and practising with them is difficult.
3. The hours I am currently working will soon mean that it is dark before I get home so getting out into the garden will be limited to Saturdays for daylight.
4. A number of the boys in his year group at the rugby club have been playing together for a number of years (both at the club and some of them at the local private schools) and are therefore some way ahead in terms of skill level and development.
Has anyone else been in this situation and found some solutions, or are there any drills that I can do with him one on one that might improve his confidence etc?
I appreciate that ultimately rugby may not be his thing but want to give it the best shot.
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
Having played rugby myself from the age go 7 until university, I introduced my son to it last year at U8 level. He is not a naturally boisterous boy but seemed to enjoy going and only ever complained once when it was bitterly cold.
This year is his first move into contact and he seems to have gone backwards. Whilst he is still happy to turn up every week he's not really getting involved choosing to stay out on the wing and avoid both the ball and the tackle.
I have a number of difficulties in trying to see some improvement.
1. He attends a local primary school that we chose specifically so he always has contacts in the area and can walk to school. The school is excellent in many ways but is lacking in its attitude to sport preferring to concentrate on more of the arts.
2. His year group is very much dominated by girls and those boys who are in his class do not live locally so meeting up and practising with them is difficult.
3. The hours I am currently working will soon mean that it is dark before I get home so getting out into the garden will be limited to Saturdays for daylight.
4. A number of the boys in his year group at the rugby club have been playing together for a number of years (both at the club and some of them at the local private schools) and are therefore some way ahead in terms of skill level and development.
Has anyone else been in this situation and found some solutions, or are there any drills that I can do with him one on one that might improve his confidence etc?
I appreciate that ultimately rugby may not be his thing but want to give it the best shot.
Thanks in advance for any ideas.
This week was a considerable improvement both on Oscarmac juniors part and that of the coaches.
The head coach in particular seemed to place an emphasis on there being a squad ethos.
There is a friend from school now at the club and it seems to have spurred the young one on a bit.
I purchased a tackle bag for practice in the garden and that has gone down a storm! (I'll donate it to the club if the interest wains)
The head coach in particular seemed to place an emphasis on there being a squad ethos.
There is a friend from school now at the club and it seems to have spurred the young one on a bit.
I purchased a tackle bag for practice in the garden and that has gone down a storm! (I'll donate it to the club if the interest wains)
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