High quality coach education for teachers and coaches of games at all levels

Seventh Annual Sevens Coaching Conference

With Ben Ryan, England Sevens Head Coach

The programme of dates for this course is completed for this term. Further dates will be added in due course. Please enquire for details 015395 60060.

Prices

£139 (+vat) 2 places £239 (+vat)

Course runs from 10.00am - 3.30pm. Course includes lunch and notes

Tutors

Ben Ryan

Ben is now in his fourth season as Head Coach of England Sevens. In 2009 he coached England to victory in the Twickenham Sevens, defeating New Zealand in the final. He led the team to a bronze medal in the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games, and will be in charge at the Delhi Games in Autumn 2010. He is also a National Academy Coach and works with England Under 18.

There are no course dates in this sport at present. However, courses can still be arranged as an Inset session for individual schools or groups of schools. Please call for details 015395 60060.

This is the fourth consecutive year that the England Sevens Head Coach, Ben Ryan, has conducted this fascinating insight into the current techniques, strategies and practice methods of the national sevens team.He will combine his experience at the very top of the game with his understanding of the circumstances of school sevens, from his previous role as a teacher.

He will look carefully at how the changing emphasis of the elite game can be applied to school teams.

With Sevens becoming an Olympic sport at Rio in 2016, worldwide interest in the game is steadily

rising. This increasing interest is percolating to school level in the form of a wider range of competitions at

all age groups, and a higher technical standard.

Ben will provide an insight into the changing nature of the game that England are trying to play, and show

how this has once again varied enormously in a year.

The emphasis on contact, ruck and offside line has been replaced by the aim of staying on the feet for offload and mini maul. Once again, this is a completely new programme, featuring all new material concerning the areas of the game that are currently under reconsideration.

As always, it will be supported by extensive and exclusive DVD illustrating how England squads

practice and perform to stay ahead the competition.

» Building a new skill set for sevens

» Changing the emphasis of the game

» Understanding offloading sevens

» Using slow motion analysis to identify offloading cues

» Keeping the ruck out of the game

» Strategies for keeping the ball off the ground

» Standing offload and mini maul

» Continuity though the ball on its feet

» Different defensive systems

» Player led defensive decisions