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Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. 

The tables are turned this week as editor of Rugby Coach Weekly Dan Cottrell joins Phil to interview him on the Roundup, its journey so far and what the future may hold. 

Recommended Roundup Episodes

• Roundup Rodeo with Mike Ashford, Danny Newcombe and Luke Taylor
• Roundup Rodeo with Pete Olousaga, Elliott Newell and Hugh Gilmore 
• Roundup Rodeo with Chris Jones and Tim Jones
• Roundup Rodeo with Simon Mundie, Andy Morrison and Sam Jarman

SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED 

• Silenced by Fear - Kish-Gerpart, Detert, Trevino & Edmondson, (2009)
• The Evolution of Rugby Analysis – George Serrallach
• The Talent Equation with Dr Andy Pitchford – Stuart Armstrong
• Eighty Percent Mental Special on Racism in Sport with John Amaechi – Dr Pete Olousaga

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Dan Cottrell speaks to Ryan Martin about his journey to attack coach with Super Rugby team, the Melbourne Rebels.

Ryan started out with Otago U10s, working his way up through the pro-game, including coaching with the New England Freejacks in the US pro-league.

In the podcast, they discuss the following:

• Ryan's journey, what's changed and what's stayed the same.
• The principles that work with U10s and pro-players.
• How does skill acquisition work for Ryan.
• How do you coach the drop punt.
• How to narrow the focus in each session and use feedback effectively.
• The balance between discovery and direct instruction.
• How coaches like Wayne Smith provide inspiration.
• The role of theming in coaching.
• The way that a weakness was identified in passing for one player, and then how that was improved over six weeks.
• The performance playground.
• The use of the S-line to improve passing, and some of the essentials around passing.
• What you should work on from the very start when you are coaching passing.
• Making training realistic and the use of perception-action coupling.

If you want to drop Ryan a line, his Twitter handle is @CoachRyanMartin where he also shares lots of great training footage.

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Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. 

This week's guests: Sam Jarman, player and coach developer in golf, rugby, cricket and football, Andy Morrison, pro golf mental performance coach and Simon Mundie, broadcaster in radio and TV, host of the Don't Tell Me The Score and Life Lessons from Sport and Beyond podcasts and aspiring author. 

The team pick out the key takeaways from each piece of great content and discuss how it can be applied to coaching.

This week’s content

• Life Lessons From Sport and Beyond with Jonny Wilkinson - Simon Mundie
• Life Lessons From Sport and Beyond with Rupert Spira - Simon Mundie
• The High Performance Podcast with Jonny Wilkinson – Jake Humphrey and Damien Hughes

SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED 

• The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment – Eckhart Tolle
• A New Earth: The life-changing follow up to The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle
• Syd Banks – Syd Banks website
• The Three Principles reading list – Syd Banks
• Francis Lucile – Francis Lucile Website
• The World is a University – Francis Lucile

Study Opportunity – Please help out and complete

Perfectionism and Wellbeing in Coaches – Newcastle University 

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Dan Cottrell catches up with one of the leading researchers on using games in training, Shane Pill. Shane is Associate Professor in Physical Education and Sport at Flinders University, Australia, a practising coach, coach developer and author of many papers around sports coaching. A list of some of his most recent work is below this post.

The discussion in the podcast explores the following:

• Do we need to know the difference between the different approaches to using games in training, for example, between games-based approaches, constraints-led approaches, games-sense and gamification?
• How "games" differ for novices and experts.
• When does coaching happen within a game.
• When you need to breakout of the game and for what reasons.
• How Shane has developed his approach to coaching through games in his experiences working in schools.
• Why we need to plan questions for games and not get distracted by the game in training.
• The impact of different groups of "learners" on the style of your coaching (and this isn't about learning styles).
• Applying Mossten's teaching styles in a game-based training session.
• How not all your sessions should be about learning.
• How games can be used for recall and rehearsal as well as learning.

Follow Shane on Twitter
@pilly66
And on LinkedIN

Links mentioned in the podcast:
Eric Worthington
Blackwell Golf

Some examples of Shane's most recent research papers/book contributions.

Pill, S. (2021). Introduction: games-based coaching. In Perspectives on game-based coaching (pp.xvii-xxviii).Routledge.

Pill, S. & SueSee, B. (2021). The game sense approach as play with purpose. InPerspectives on game-based coaching (pp.1-10).Routledge.

Hewitt, M. & Pill, S. (2021). Exploring pedagogical tensions: providing practical examples for tennis coaches to navigate a shift to game-based coaching. In Perspectives on game-based coaching (pp.96-107).Routledge.

Pill, S. & Reynolds, D. (2021).Exploring coach educators’ experiences with developing game-based coaching. Perspectives on game-based coaching (pp.108-116). Routledge.

Pill, S. (2021). Reconciling approaches: Informing game sense pedagogy with a constraints-led perspective. In Game Sense for Teaching and Coaching: International Perspectives. Routledge.

Curry, C., & Pill, S. (2021). Concluding thoughts: Game Sense for teaching and coaching globally. In Game Sense for Teaching and Coaching: International Perspectives. Routledge.

Agnew, D. & Pill, S. (2021). Creating caring environments: An exploration of football managers and coaching. Sports Coaching Review, Published online: 18 Mar 2021

Cruickshank, V., Pill, S., & Mainsbridge, C. (2021). Just do some physical activity. Exploring experiences of teaching physical education online during Covid-19. Issues in Educational Research, 31(1), 76-93.

Williams, J., Pill, S., & Hewitt, M. (2021). I think everyone is on board with changing how we do things, but we are yet to find a best fit model: A figurational study of assessing games and sport in physical education. Sport Education and Society, 26(3), 253-266

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Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. 

This week's guests: Mike Rogers, Waikato Women's head coach, former Bay of Plenty senior and U19 coach and host Inside Running coach learning series and Jay Carter, Golf New Zealand National Coach and host Talking Performance podcast. 

 The team pick out the key takeaways from each piece of great content and discuss how it can be applied to coaching.

This week’s content

Belonging - Owen Eastwood

Talking Performance podcast with Carl Sheridan – Jay Carter

SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED 

Talking Performance Podcast – Jay Carter 

Inside Running Coach Learning Series – Mike Rogers 

The Sport Psych Show with Elliott Newell and Craig Morris – Dan Abrahams

Videos Rules For Coaches – Doug Lemox and Codex Analysis 

Where Other Won't with Doug Lemov and Todd Beane – Cody Royle

Positive Teacher Relationships – University of Edinburgh

How to Work with a Manipulative Person – Harvard Business Review

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Perfectionism and Wellbeing in Coaches – Newcastle University 

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Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. 

This week's guests: Andy Plimer host Rugby Coaches Corner podcast, PE teacher and Concordia University Women's coach and Luke Gromer, host of The Coaches Club podcast, English teacher and basketball coach. 

 The team pick out the key takeaways from each piece of great content and discuss how it can be applied to coaching.

This week’s content

• Any Given Team – Ray McLean
• The Coaches Guide to Teaching Study Guide – Luke Gromer

SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED 

• Fear Less – Pippa Grange
• The Coaches Guide to Teaching – Doug Lemov
• The Culture Code – Daniel Coyle
• Dare to Lead - Brene Brow
• Mindset – Carol Dweck
• Developing Decision Makers – Lynn Kidman
• Mind Gym – Gary Mack
• The Coaches Club Podcast – Luke Gromer

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Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. 

This week's guests: James Hamilton Director of Rugby at Nottingham High School and Andy Drummond Head of Athletic Development at Nottingham High School
The team pick out the key takeaways from each piece of great content and discuss how it can be applied to coaching.

 This week’s content

• Building Successful Coach Athlete Relationships – Sophia Jowett
• 40 Years with a Whistle – Life Lessons from the Field of Play – Dan John

SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED 

• The Long Win - Cath Bishop
• The Dan John Podcast – Dan John
• The Real Science of Sport Podcast: Should Rugby reduce the number of substitutes to lower injury risk? - Professor Ross Tucker

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Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. 

This week's guests: Cal Jones, Judo Coach and Anthony Hill, Director of Rugby at Nailsea and Backwell RFC, Bristol Bears DPP coach 

The team pick out the key takeaways from each piece of great content and discuss how it can be applied to coaching.

This week’s content

• Representative Learning Design and Functionality of Research and Practice in Sport – Pinder, Davids, Renshaw & Araujo, (2011)
• Return to Contact with Richie Gray - Magic Academy 

SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED 

• The Talent Equation – Stuart Armstrong
• UK Coaching

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Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week.

This week's guests: Michael Wright, Southampton FC Academy Coach and The Sports Initiative Podcast Host and David Kilcoyne, PE Teacher and Head of Rugby at Desborough College.

The team pick out the key takeaways from each piece of great content and discuss how it can be applied to coaching.

This week’s content

• The Playbook (Netflix) – Partick Mouratoglou
• Developing Gen Z at Ealing Trailfinders Academy – Jack Campbell

SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED

• Distorted Expectations are Ruining Your Reality – Steve Magness, The Growth Equation
• Empathy Is The Most Important Leadership Skill – Tracy Brower, Forbes
• How to Stop Languishing and Start Finding Flow – Adam Grant TedTalk
• How to Overcome Pressure – insights from monsters under the bed – Rich Hudson

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Host Phil Llewellyn with guests review some of the many great podcasts, books, articles and webinars from the last week. 

This week's guests: Tim Jones, director of The Developer Tribe, Stirling Ladies University Football Club, PhD student at Stirling University and Chris Jones, private tutor with Core Learning Tutoring in Jersey, former primary school teacher and mental health first aider. 

 The team pick out the key takeaways from each piece of great content and discuss how it can be applied to coaching.

 This week's content:

Call for Coaches: Coaching Social and Emotional Skills in Youth Sports – Aspen Institute

SUGGESTED CONTENT/WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED 

• The Developer Tribe – Tim Jones
• Roundup Rodeo with Ed Hall - Rugby Coach Weekly
• Dr Alan Dunton. Skill Acquisition. Utilising Constraints To Enhance Coaching. Agility Or Change Of Direction. Occlusion Goggles – The Fallowers
• Dr Ed Cope & Prof Chris Cushion - Redefining Direct Instruction in Coaching Part 2 – The Sports Psych Show, Dan Abrahams

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