Rugby

Evolution of the game of rugby: the Villepreux method

by Pier Villepreux

4 lessons | 40 minutes | 38

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The Pierre Villepreux method is known all over the world for its series of innovative techniques in teaching rugby, especially to younger people. Villepreux's decades of experience, supported in this course by none other than Georges Coste, is available to Sportwig to understand rugby and how it is experienced in different realities and in different countries. The continuous confrontation between attack and defense can make your team express a pleasant game, especially for the players themselves, because they are the real protagonists on the field. The excellent results of the national rugby team in the 90s are tangible proof of this.

Language: Italiano

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The evolution of the game of rugby

To understand the evolution of the game of rugby, it is necessary to take a step back to before professionalism. Over the years, first of all, the rules have changed and the game went from planned and with little freedom to change, to a game of adaptation based on defense, a “down to earth” style of play that is now widespread all over the world. However, everything must be based on the players that are available, players who today, with professionalism, are much better performing physically.

Total rugby

Pierre Villepreux is a great exponent of the adaptive method, the famous “total rugby” that allows players to understand the game based on the situation. According to Villepreux, everything must be part of a path and a method that starts with the little ones and develops with the older ones. The player's ability to make decisions without following patterns depends on the coach, he must create the conditions that allow players to understand, decide and act. Without forgetting that in order to progress you must also make mistakes, error is part of understanding.

Global training method

A good training method allows the whole club, from youth to seniors, to identify with a style. Villepreux talks about a gaming school taking an example from the champions of Toulouse, the club he coached. Today it seems that only physically gifted players can play rugby, that's not true. Rugby can be played by everyone.

Italy, winning by taking risks. With Georges Coste

The opposition training methodology has allowed Italian players to become much more productive on the field in relation to what happens, in relation to how they defend their opponent. Georges Coste and Pierre Villepreux talk about the progress of the Italian national rugby team in the 90s, a series of successes that led to its entry into the Six Nations. Can you win by taking risks in the field? Yes, we have the proof.

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