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Mike Penistone is a global rugby coach, starting his coaching career in the 80s with Trent Poly and then Cambridge University rugby league as head coach. He went on to GB Student's head coach before moving to Leicester Tigers Academy via Nottingham. He did a stint at NSW Waratahs and then Eastern Suburbs in Australia. He is now a rugby coach consultant.

In the podcast, we cover:

• How to make a great first impression as a coach
• How to make your sessions engaging and intense
• Why threes and fives are magic numbers
• What stops great players becoming good coaches
• Asking the best questions to get the most from your players
• Managing talent
• Helping an expert player become more skilful

Mike is available for coaching consultancy and sessions. Drop him a line on [email protected]

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Dan Cottrell chats to author and coach, J.P. Nerbun about his latest book, The Sports Parent Solution, Proven Strategies for Transforming Parents from Obstacles to Allies.

We explore how coaches can get the most out of their relationships with parents. Sometimes they are super-supportive, and sometimes not!

How do you get them onside to start with, speak to them, involve them and make them part of everyone's journey.

We talk about the ways to have difficult conversations, how to build your value offering and chances to show leadership.

J.P., as always, offers lots of evidence from either his own experience or from experts around this space.

He has written three books:
Calling Up: Discovering Your Journey to Transformational Leadership
The Culture System: A Proven Process for Creating an Extraordinary Team Culture
The Sports Parent Solution, Proven Strategies for Transforming Parents from Obstacles to Allies

He is host of the The Coaching Culture podcast.

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Welcome to the Coaching Knife when we cut to the root of the matter. In this episode, we speak to Tom Chaloba, Manager of Get Into Rugby Zambia.
Focusing on volunteering we are going to cut to the root on how to build a group of volunteers and retain them.

Tom is a coach and match official educator at Zambia Rugby Union, as well as working with the Tag Rugby Trust. He is the founder of Die Hard Rugby academy.

His philosophy is aim high but don't miss what is near. This helps him stay grounded and rooted but also gives him the freedom to shoot for the stars.

You can contact him on
Twitter @TomChaloba1
Instagram @TomChaloba1
LinkedIn 
Facebook

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Welcome to the Coaching Knife when we cut to the root of the matter. In this episode, we speak to Professor Kevin Till, Professor of Athletic Development at Leeds Beckett University and Strength and Conditioning Coach at Leeds Rhinos RLFC academy. Focusing on warm-ups, we are going to explore how they are used to prevent injury and give us performance gains.

Kev has worked in strength and conditioning with Yorkshire cricket, Yorkshire Carnegie rugby union, football with Leeds United, as well as his roles in rugby league, at Leeds Rhinos and Castleford. He completed his PhD in Sport and Exercise Science over 12 years ago, and  has had seven papers published. 

 He has helped edit and write two books, The Science of Sport: Rugby, and published last year: The Young Rugby Player: Science and Application

 His philosophy is about supporting people in the best way possible. Similar to work on 'Talent', everyone has potential, and it is how we can support creating opportunities to support as many to develop as effectively as possible. 

 You can contact him on Twitter
@KTConditioning
Email: [email protected]

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Welcome to the Coaching Knife when we cut to the root of the matter. In this episode, we speak to Craig Gunn, coach, teacher and motivational educator, and founder of Gunn Engagement. Focusing on why high-performance sport is dangerous for grassroots, we are going to cut to the root on why we need to break the brooms of the All Blacks.

Craig is an experienced PE teacher and former head teacher. He has worked across many sports, including Aussie Rules and Rugby League.

His philosophy is that kids learn teachers NOT subjects; Sometimes you have to mow the grass before you save the whales.

You can contact him on LinkedIn or The Coach Whisperer.

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Welcome to the Coaching Knife when we cut to the root of the matter. In this episode, we speak to Ian Costello, Head of Rugby Operations at Munster Rugby. Focusing on talent, we are going to focus on how that term might impact the way we approach coaching.

Ian has had a busy coaching career, with stints as assistant coach at Munster and Wasps, the Munster Academy manager, as well as head coach at Nottingham and an Elite Development Manager with the Irish RFU.

 His philosophy:

The purpose is to develop and sustain a high-performance strategy for Munster Rugby. Philosophy would be to find and develop the best people, build system capability, always improving, learning faster than the opposition. Quality coaching is key to producing consistent winning performance.

You can contact him on Twitter at Iancostello1 

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Welcome to the Coaching Knife when we cut to the root of the matter. In this episode, we speak to Grant Doorey, performance coach @Mobicoach Australia and passion projects Rugby ATL, Queensland Rugby and Australia Rugby.

Focusing on the power of purpose in coaching and life, we are going to cut to the root on how we can turn thoughts into action.

Before becoming a consultant high-performance coach, Grant was an assistant coach with Tonga, Italy and Japan national teams, a technical adviser with the IRANZ, plus roles with pro clubs in France, London Irish, and the Blues Super franchise. He started as a teacher and director of school rugby in Australia.

His philosophy is the relentless pursuit of short-term goals leading to long-term success. To inspire leaders and teams to develop rigour and discipline, striving for excellence in their daily habits,  he connects, engages and empowers people through coaching.

You can contact him on LinkedIn or directly to [email protected]

He values human connection. Please reach out for a conversation and explore synergies to collaborate.

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Dan chats with Gary Townsend, the Bristol Bears Junior Academy manager about a question from Will Jones, an U15s coach from Cardiff.

He asks: The backs are doing the forwards' work when it comes to the breakdown. Plenty of forwards are way too lazy and not bothering to clear out and secure the ball. Do you have any good drills we could use to get them switched back onto this?

We cover:

• What do the forwards want to do
• Do we need to have position-specific roles
• How to use decision-rich training, both drills and games
• Encouraging players to ruck, and also encouraging the ball carrier to be active at the ruck
• Changing habits by manipulating the drill

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Welcome to the coaching knife when we cut to the root of the matter. In this episode, we speak to Keith Lewis, founder of rugbyreferees,net, the leading online community for rugby referees across the world

Focusing on the refereeing the new tackle height laws, we are going to cut to the root of what referees will be looking for next season.

Philosophy: Helping people to become better referees, no matter what level that may be

You can contact him on rugbyreferee.net
or keithlewisrugby on Twitter

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Welcome to the coaching knife when we cut to the root of the matter. In this episode, we speak to Catherine Spencer, author, speaker, and former England women’s rugby captain.

Focusing on coaching women’s and girls’ rugby, we are going to cut to the root on what men need to know about coaching women. 

Catherine retired from international rugby in 2011, with 63 caps, 18 tries, winning 6 Six Nations titles, 3 for them as captain. She has written the award-winning book ‘Mud, Maul, Mascara’. She is a patron of the Tag Rugby Trust, and she is CEO and founder of Inspiring Women. Currently, she is teaching sociology and RE at a secondary school in Kent.

You can contact her on [email protected]
Or on Twitter: cathspence8

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