{"id":5864,"date":"2014-01-20T10:35:51","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T10:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rugby.supersportschools.com\/national-coaching-symposium-kicks-off-2014\/"},"modified":"2014-01-20T10:35:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T10:35:51","slug":"national-coaching-symposium-kicks-off-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=5864","title":{"rendered":"National coaching symposium kicks off 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The South African Rugby Union (SARU) hosts a ground-breaking national coaching symposium in Stellenbosch later this month where ideas will be shared between coaches from junior provincial to Springbok level.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">All provincial coaches have been invited to the symposium \u2013 an initiative of SARU\u2019s High Performance Department \u2013 which will run from 27 to 31 January at the Stellenbosch Academy of Sport.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Seminars will be led by the three Springbok assistant coaches Johann van Graan, Ricardo Loubscher and John McFarland, as well as national coaching consultants Pieter de Villiers, Louis Koen and Chean Roux and SARU High Performance General Manager Rassie Erasmus and Willie Maree, SARU\u2019s Technical Support Manager.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">All facets of game play and preparation will be on the agenda as well as technical analysis.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cAs far as we know, this is the first time we\u2019ll host a national coaching symposium on this scale,\u201d said Jurie Roux, CEO of SARU.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cOur Springbok coaches will share their coaching philosophy and principles but we\u2019ll also get feedback and see how our elite professional coaches can work together to improve our approach to the game on a nationwide scale. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe\u2019ve had a great response from the provinces to the initiative and have also invited the coaches of the four SARU Academies, established in 2012 in Border, Eastern Province, South Western Districts and Boland.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The High Performance Department\u2019s cooperation with the 14 provinces and the Vodacom Super Rugby franchises will be stepped up in the coming months when members of the Springbok coaching team and SARU\u2019s Mobi-Unit visit the provinces to work with the players on the training field.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe\u2019ve worked really closely together with the Super Rugby franchises and the provinces since last year, and it\u2019s something we want to increase this season,\u201d said Erasmus.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe\u2019ve extended invitations to all the provinces and franchises and will assist them wherever they require us. This will include the Springboks\u2019 Medical team, whose members are also available for assistance.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cI believe we have started reaping the rewards of closer cooperation between SARU and the provinces and that everyone can gain from working together. The Springbok coaches and the Mobi-Unit have put in a lot of very hard work for the benefit of rugby in South Africa and we\u2019re very excited about the symposium and the coming months of working together.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Issued by SARU Corporate Affairs<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Rugby Union (SARU) hosts a ground-breaking national coaching symposium in Stellenbosch later this month where ideas will be shared between coaches from junior provincial to Springbok level.All provincial coaches have been invited to the symposium \u2013 an initiative of SARU\u2019s High Performance Department \u2013 which will run from 27 to 31 January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}