Skills to help speed up decision making
A rugby training exercise to remind players that keeping their head up can improve quick decision making.
If you are a good decision maker, you'll keep your head up and look at the defence before acting. To develop players capable of making quick decisions, you need to give them plenty of opportunities to practise this technique under pressure.
Here's a simple exercise to set and improve your players' ability to play heads up rugby.
Set up a three versus two rugby drill in favour of the attack. The ball always starts with the middle player of the attacking three.
Stand behind the defenders. As the attackers start, hold up a coloured cone. The ball carrier has to shout out the colour of the cone as he is analysing the defence and making his decision about how and where to attack.
As your players improve, you can change cones during the attack, so all the ball carriers have to constantly scan what is in front of them while attacking.
Some players may find this rugby drill very difficult at first. If so, let them walk through the rugby drill to start with before increasing the pace.
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