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USA/Minnesota Coaching seminar with Sir Graham Henry

Richie McCaw on Graham Henry: He is never happy where we are at. He always has somewhere to go, always looking to make improvements. He has watched a huge amount of rugby and is not afraid to trial ideas from other teams. That’s his huge strength. He sees the big picture, plans a whole campaign. He is motivated by a huge desire to see the All Blacks win every test and the World Cup. Graham Henry on Wayne Smith: “Wayne is the best coach I have ever coached with. He has a huge work ethic, does lots of research and has a great feel for the game. At the moment he is the defence coach and is also involved with our counter attacking strategy. He is a very thoughtful man and takes a major interest in how we use turnover ball. He has been going around with a little camera which he uses to track individual players for a whole game. It has proved quite embarrassing for some. There is nowhere to hide and the players soon learn where they have to step up. Top bloke.”

Part 1. Graham Henry USA/Minnesota Coaching Seminar - session 1

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Graham explores your role as a coach and what you are trying to achieve. Part 1 of a 5 part series.

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Part 2. Wayne Smith USA/Minnesota Coaching Seminar - session 2

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Wayne Smith details during his USA clinic key developments in try scoring.

Wayne as always has expertly research and details the trends in an easy to understand manner.

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Part 3. Graham Henry USA/Minnesota Coaching Seminar - session 3

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Graham explores your role as a coach and what you are trying to achieve. Part 3 of a 5 part series.

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Part 4. Graham Henry USA/Minnesota Coaching Seminar - session 4

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Watch Graham explain how to set up an attack in part 4 of this series.

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Part 5. Wayne Smith USA/Minnesota Coaching Seminar - session 5

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Wayne Smith details during his USA clinic key developments in tackle. Wayne as always has expertly research and details the trends in an easy to understand manner.

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Course Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
Duration 156:42
Topics Leadership & Management
Applicable to Coaches Others Supporters and fans
Languages English
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Course reviews

great research done by Wayne and his team, everything he says is simple yet effective. Just a matter of teaching the players within a short window twice a week

 —  Australia

Using set ups and not patterns is good. question when do you call the option being used off the set up to create strike 1.

 —  Australia

Very thought provoking, Just talking about a coaches role as a life long learner, is an exciting and important perspective.

 —  USA

Found the discussion of the attacking options and the defensive structure really illuminating

 —  England

Fantastic series of videos to take a lot out of. Really useful for reviewing myself as a coach, and how I bring the best out of my players.

 —  Ireland

todavia estoy esperando que traduzcan al castellano

 —  Argentina

que lo traduzcan al castellano

 —  Argentina

Fantastic insight into the minds of two of the Worlds top coaches.

 —  England

very nice , I hope to see complet

 —  Peru

really good ça alwasy stats with us how it’s done that-what is how we think how much energy gives

 —  Georgia

It is not rocket science, again so well explained by Wayne.

 —  France

How good is Wayne Smith? My bloody hero!

 —  England

Wayne Smith’s analysis is excellent. Definitely gave me some things to think about.

 —  Barbados

Excellente!! please transate it!!! Thanks Sir Graham

 —  Argentina

Outstanding insight in to role of the coach from Sir Graham, looking forward to the rest of this series. Superb.

 —  England

Brilliant,

 —  South Africa

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