The Young Rugby Player

The Young Rugby Player
Author: Kevin Till
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2022-12-26
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1000827364

The Young Rugby Player: Science and Application provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the recent research behind the preparation, development and performance of the young rugby player. Each chapter concludes with key take-home messages and practical applications demonstrating how practitioners can provide evidence-informed delivery with the young rugby athlete. The book highlights how research and science can inform practice including coaching, sport science, player development and performance with the young rugby player. Each author is a world leader within their respective discipline including academics and practitioners who research and practice across youth rugby. The book includes chapters on: • Introducing the young rugby player, including topics related to growth and maturation, talent identification and development and understanding the demands of youth rugby. • Understanding and developing the young rugby player, including topics related to physical, psycho-social, technical and tactical development, alongside training practices and fatigue and recovery. • Other hot topics including nutrition, injury, concussion and injury prevention and the female young rugby player. This text is vital reading for all coaches, sport scientists, strength and conditioning coaches and all academics with an interest in the science and practical application of working with the young rugby player.

Be the Best

Be the Best
Author: Sarah Oliver
Publisher:
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2008-10
Genre: Rugby football
ISBN: 9780955982002

This is the first book that looks at rugby at every stage, from mini rugby at school to academy and finally at professional level. It presents the tools to make any child a better rugby player. This book will inspire and encourage young players. It explores topics such as building self-confidence, motivation, visual awareness and dealing with rejection. It demonstrates what players can do individually to improve their game and raise their chances of being selected at county, national and regional level. Players can learn what to expect from trials and how to deal with stressful situations. It contains top tips from some of the best rugby talent of today, tomorrow and yesteryear.

The Player and the Pixie

The Player and the Pixie
Author: Penny Reid
Publisher:
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2016-03-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781942874171

Lucy Fitzpatrick hates rugby although her brother is a famous Irish rugby player. Lucy meets Ireland's second best rugby player and is not impressed. They both have little problems that the other can't solve but they become a hot team.

Loose Head

Loose Head
Author: Joe Marler
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2020-10-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1473581850

SHORTLISTED FOR THE TELEGRAPH RUGBY BOOK OF THE YEAR The truth about being a rugby player from the horsey's mouth. This book is not just about how a psychiatrist called Humphrey helped me get back on my horse and clippity-clop all the way to the World Cup semi-final in Japan. It's the story of how a fat kid who had to live up to the nickname Psycho grew up to play and party for over a decade with rugby's greatest pros and live weird and wonderful moments both in and out of the scrum. That's why I'm letting you read my diary on my weirdest days. You never know what you're going to get with me. From being locked in a police cell to singing Adele on Jonathan Ross (I'll let you decide which is worse), being kissed by a murderer on the number 51 bus to drug tests where clipboard-wielding men hover inches away from my naked genitalia, melting opponents in rucks, winning tackles, and generally losing blood, sweat and ears in the name of the great sport of rugby. This is how (not) to be a rugby player.

Science and Football II

Science and Football II
Author: Jan Clarys
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1135827702

This book includes all the papers presented at a second World Congress of Science and Football (Liverpool 1987) (Eindhoven).

Pedagogical Cases in Physical Education and Youth Sport

Pedagogical Cases in Physical Education and Youth Sport
Author: Kathleen Armour
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2014-01-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134453698

Pedagogical Cases in Physical Education and Youth Sport is a completely new kind of resource for students and practitioners working in physical education or youth sport. The book consists of 20 richly described cases of individual young learners, each written by a team of authors with diverse expertise from across the sport, exercise and movement sciences. These cases bring together knowledge from single sub-disciplines into new interdisciplinary knowledge to inform best practice in physical education, teaching and coaching in youth sport settings. At the heart of each case is an individual young person of a specified age and gender, with a range of physical, social and psychological characteristics. Drawing on current research, theory and empirical data from their own specialist discipline, each chapter author identifies the key factors they feel should be taken into account when attempting to teach or coach the young person described. These strands are then drawn together at the end of each chapter and linked to current research from the sport pedagogy literature, to highlight the implications for planning and evaluating teaching or coaching sessions. No other book offers such a rich, vivid and thought-provoking set of pedagogical tools for understanding and working with children and young people in sport. This is an essential resource for any student on a physical education, coaching, kinesiology or sport science course, and for any teacher, coach or instructor working in physical education or youth sport.

Soft Power Politics - Football and Baseball on the Western Pacific Rim

Soft Power Politics - Football and Baseball on the Western Pacific Rim
Author: Rob Hess
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1351548328

Soft Power Politics- Past and Present: Football and Baseball on the Western Pacific Rim illustrates the momentous expanse and moment of sport in the Asia Pacific region and through these essays dealing with two of the most prodigious global team sports confronts various cultural clashes that Samuel Huntington would ensure the end of civilisation. They also demonstrate the power sport has to change the world and to inspire and unite people globally. All who sail under the flag ofSport as ingenuous as it may seem to the host of cynics that abounds, believe that dialogues that emerge from arguments included in this text represent communication of the highest order and have the potential to produce the cohesion that can close some of those cracks that Huntington said would open up along, what he called the fault lines between civilisations.This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Author: Nicholas Bishop
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2013-10-10
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1780577621

What made Pontypool such a great seam of talent for the Welsh national team? Why were they hated and feared in equal measure by other clubs in Wales and across the Severn? What made Ray Prosser a coach ahead of his time? In this engrossing book, Alun Carter and Nick Bishop recount the dramatic story of the rise and fall of one of the great enigmas of Welsh club rugby: Pontypool RFC. They chart the glories and violence of the amateur era in the 1970s and ’80s before the club entered a period of steady decline in the age of professionalism, reaching the point of bankruptcy after a crippling legal battle with the Welsh RU. It is a symbolic tale of the disintegration of the social fabric that held a once-great club together, both on and off the playing field – often irresistibly funny, eventually tragic, but always larger than life.

Sport Development in the United States

Sport Development in the United States
Author: Peter Smolianov
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2014-09-15
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1135075689

The development of both elite, high performance sport and mass participation, grassroots-level sport are central concerns for governments and sports governing bodies. This important new study is the first to closely examine the challenges and opportunities for sports development in the United States, a global sporting giant with a unique, market-driven sporting landscape. Presenting an innovative model of integrated sports development, the book explores the inter-relationship between elite and mass sport across history, drawing on comparative international examples from Australia to the former USSR and Eastern bloc countries. At the heart of the book is an in-depth empirical study of three (traditional and emerging) sports in the US – tennis, soccer and rugby – that offer important lessons on the development of elite sport, methods for increasing participation, and the establishment of new sports in new markets. No other book has attempted to model sports development in the United States in such depth before. Therefore this should be essential reading for all students, researchers, administrators or policy-makers with an interest in sports development, sports management, sports policy, or comparative, international sport studies.

Exercise Shapes up Brain Health

Exercise Shapes up Brain Health
Author: Frederico C. Pereira
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2020-12-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 2889662233

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.