Book 5: Learn @ Home Coaching Rugby Union Project: Academy of Excellence for Coaching Rugby Union Personal Skills

By Bert Holcroft

The Holcroft saga is a rugby story the like of which may never have been equaled in the history of the game.

It begins over a century ago, when Mr. George Holcroft took charge of Leigh St. Peters RLFC in 1889.

He married; and when his family grew, Jack, Harry, William, and Tom all played for local teams. They married, and George’s grandsons Bert and Bill also played.

Bert Holcroft has been a distinguished servant for the game of rugby all his life. He holds coaching certificates from both the Australian and British governing bodies—one of only a handful of men to achieve such an honor in the game’s history.

For twenty odd years, Bert Holcroft has had one of the unlikeliest jobs in sport—teaching Australian rugby coaches how to coach!

Considering the Australian dominance in the World Rugby in recent years, that might seem par with taking coal to Newcastle.

But make no mistake, Bert Holcroft has done as much as anyone to ensure Australia’s reemergence as a major rugby power.

On the face of it, Australia wouldn’t seem to need any outside help, let alone from a Pom. Their record of only one test defeat since 1978 speaks for itself. But Bert’s reputation is nationwide “down under”—quite simply, he’s one of the best in the business.

Bert, who played for Leigh between 1950–60, has spent much of his latter years Down Under, lecturing to top-grade coaches in New South Wales.

Born and bred in Cameron Street, Leigh, Bert has few peers when it comes to teaching the basics of the 13, a side game. Since migrating in the late ’60s, Bert has dedicated his life to coaching and fitness techniques. Teams in Queensland, New South Wales, and Sydney have all come under his influence—often with spectacular results. Bert’s credentials are impeccable.

Last summer, he achieved the highest accolade in Australia—his grade 3 certificate personally signed by the then Australian league chairman Kevin Humphreys and the director of coaching, Peter Corcoran. Three years earlier, Bert has sailed through his grade 1 and 2 with flying colors. In 1953, he was awarded his senior coaching certificate in England.

Bert, who held a number of posts at Hilton Park before immigrating to Australia, has spent a lot of his time heavily involved with rugby in the universities there. He became director of coaching for the University of New South Wales and later coach of the Combined Universities side.

He was awarded coaching accreditation by the Australian Institute of Sport, Department of Sport and Recreation, New South Wales, and the NSW Rugby League for administration, as well as national coaching certificates in both Britain and Australia—being one of only a handful of people to do so.

Eventually, the offer of a job in Sydney came—to coach Premiership glamorous club, Eastern Suburbs.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: May 17, 2019
• ISBN: 9781490795089

Bert Holcroft

My name is Bert Holcroft, I am a World Accredited Northern & Southern Hemisphere coach. I have spent a lifetime developing specialist fitness, dietry, coaching and training techniques for some of the worlds leading sports people in All Contact Sports

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Book 5: Learn @ at Home Coaching Rugby Union Project

Academy of Excellence For Coaching

Rugby Union Personal Skills

Bert Holcroft

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Contents

Section 1

Introduction

Elite Athlete

Self Assessment

Introduction To Modern Concepts Of Change, Relating To Fitness For Rugby-Union & League

Aerobic Power

Calisthenics For Warm-Up Abdominals

Mobility And Strength—Field Drills

Calisthenics For Warm Up Circuit

Technical Proficiencies Illustrated

7-Positions—Exercise Program

Psycho Cybernetics

Section 2

Coaching Knowledge

Muscle Function Tests

Plyo-Kinetic Programme (A) & (B)

Muscles & Joints-Functional Tests

Muscle Function Tests

M.F.T. i.e. Muscular Function Test

Fitness Regime

Physical Exercise – See Exercise Charts

Reaching A Peak

Bio-Mechanics & Physiology

Elite Athlete

Aerobic Training

Sports Nutritional Analysis

Nutritional Guidelines For Rugby.

Nutritional Guidelines For Health

The Demon Drink

Section 3

Pro T Ball

Sidestep Evading A Tackle

Sidestep Away From The Tackler

Step Around The Tackler

Continuity Techniques Pro T Ball Facilitating Link Five Game Plan

Scientific—Analysis

Hand Off A Tackler

Bumping Off, I.e. Push Defender Backwards

Bump The Tackler Off

Accept The Tackle

Take The Tackle, Turn And Pop

Continuity Rugby (T Ball)

Step Out Of A Tackle

Step Into The Tackle

Break Through The Tackle

Push Through The Tacklers

Step Through And Reach Over The Tackler’s Arms

Hit And Spin Out Of A Tackle

Slip A Pass After Taking The Tackle

Section 4

Mod Pro Ball Techniques

New Mode Of Kicking Analysis

Section 5

Scientific—Analysis

Tackle From Head On Contact

Front On Tackle

Before Contact. Lining Up A Tackle On (Left Or Right).

Side On Tackle

The Smother Tackle

Double Tackle. Front On & Smother

Tackle From Behind

Diving Tackle: Pro Techniques

Section 6

Pro T-Ball Intensity:

Catching A High Ball Technique

Section 7

Contents Of Manuals

Rugby Union Field Dimensions

Rugby Union Restarts

Rugby Union Line Out Positions

Rugby Union

Rugby Union Backs Positions

Section 8

Rugby Union Scrum Formation Techniques

Professional Secrets Revealed

Academy Of Excellence

Contents Of Manuals

That Rugby Saga Of Family Holcroft

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RUGBY REVELATIONS

VIRTUAL REALITY IN CYBER SPACE

ARTISTIC EXPRESSIONS OF FUTURISTIC

INNOVATIVE TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

ILLUSTRATED DEPICTING ELITE

FINESSE FOR SPORTS EXCELLENCE

By ACCREDITED GRADE III COACH—BERT HOLCROFT.

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21st-Century Futuristic Rugby

PROFESSIONAL SECRETS REVEALED

FOREWORD BY SIR CLIVE WOODWARD (PGCE),

SPORTS SCIENCE, O.B.E.

Head Coach and Director of English Rugby

The Authors of this Rugby Manual are respected professional associates. I have previously discussed the introduction of the Mechanics of Physics into Rugby through Bio-Science Technology with them. They have gone one-step further and compiled this informative Techno-Bio-Science 15-Man Rugby Manual and envisage the contents of these manuals IE Upgraded Technical Proficiencies, Tackling Techniques, Tactics and Strategies will become pre-requisites to achieve a professional status, be it as a player or coach at senior level.

This Rugby Manual is very well written, defined and fully illustrated. Implementing the factual dynamics of integrated Techno-Bio-Science promoting a new mode of Smart Rugby. A Pre-Requisite for winning ways.

Continuing on the same theme Bert, Margo & Team have designed an Elite Fitness Program in a Computerised Excel Somatograph Formal, (can be purchased separately), depicting and analysing Personal Fitness Assessment, in my opinion a very useful tool to have in your possession.

Available in Manuals £12.50 . . . Softback-Manual . . . £9.50 Email PDF

Written and illustrated by BERT HOLCROFT, Accredited Senior Grade Coach

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SECTION 1

MODERN RUGBY

Accreditation

SCIENTIFIC FITNESS REVELATIONS

PSYCHOLOGICAL & PHYSIOLOGICAL

FACTORS, INTERACTING,

INTERCHANGING,

INTEGRATING, TO ATTAIN NEW WORLD

LEAGUE AND UNION RUGBY SUPREMACY.

UPGRADED ILLUSTRATIONS AND

TECHNIQUES THROUGH MODERN

SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES.

ELITE FITNESS FOR RUGBY

EXCELLENCE

FACILITATING A NEW MODE

OF SMART RUGBY

Introduction

PROGRAMMING THE BODY FOR SUCCESS

MENTAL IMAGE TRAINING (M.I.T.)

BERT HOLCROFT

This equates with Conceptual and Perceptual imagery, facilitating the five disciplines of sporting participation and reaction to Stress and Pressure Situations.

1. Sports Psychology—(Mind and Body).

2. Sports Physiology—(Energy Facilitation).

3. Basic Game Disciplines—(Visual Reactions).

4. Academic Disciplines (Learning Process).

5. Skill and Technical (Disciplines).

These functional proficiency disciplines should co-ordinate with the physiology, i.e. the "Nine Levels" of accepted fitness.—Plateaux, optimum fitness levels, 9 disciplines and the acquirement of the same.

Perception or Conceived Perceptions require perceived knowledge of A. Object, B. its Presence, C, Space and Time and D. Direction and Elevation, derived and perceived from past learning and conceived from participation and experience gained in actual contesting the game of your choice at the highest level under pressure situations. Experiences gained are assessed for their Technical Proficiency and Efficiency, i.e. A. Correct Movements of the fundamental skill, B. Bio-Mechanically and Functionally, C. Correction Drills are initiated if required. Conceived Perception is gained by teaching and facilitating a learning process of correct movement patterns. These patterns are gained by repetitive technical related drills relating to Personal Variables in pressure Orientated Situations. These Personal Variables which relate to skill patterns and the energy systems are facilitated by Perceptual Images and Motor Nerve Impulses, which create an efficient Engram System. These stored Motor Engrams respond to Automated Response impulse reaction to Elite Participants under Pressure Situations.

ELITE ATHLETE

Tangibles And Intangibles

Levels of