World Rugby Sevens coaching participants focus on practical assessments

Super Sevens Series coaches finalized their world rugby 7s coaching course on Monday last week, and are looking to attend their last session sometime next week before they’ll go through their practical assessments to get accredited.

The Sevens coaching course began in January before the first leg of the Super 7s Series, and participants have been attending the course on a weekly basis.

The gist of this Sevens coaching course is for the coaches to understand and learn the principle of the game of 7s.

One of the main aspects of this principle is to focus on doing the little things right, a topic these participants have been dissecting throughout this course.

Fiji Rugby Development Manager Koli Sewabu emphasized that the focus is to install in these coaches the importance of learning the little things.

“There’s been a lot of changes in terms of coaches and players developments, from the beginning of this course our focus has been on doing the little things right,” said Sewabu.

Sewabu added that learning the little things is not focusing on the end result of the game but focus on all little aspects of the principal of the game.

“The biggest learning is for these coaches to understand the principle of the game of sevens, the coachable components involved, and being able to identify the functional role or job each player are assigned to do,” said Sewabu.

“Through this course, coaches will learn all these, how to apply it to their coaching, their key factor analysis, coaching points, and their process of coaching through having a good session plan,” said Sewabu.

Sewabu emphasized the importance of getting all these aspects of their coaching in the right direction, adding that If they focus on the little things, then the bigger picture will take care of itself.

“The biggest learning for the coaches is to learn how to break down core skills developments and how to apply that on the field,” said Sewabu.

He added that the next step now is for the educators to start working on the coaches’ practical assessments.

“Next step is to get these coaches accredited if they meet the criteria of a world rugby level 2 sevens coach.”