The German Rugby Federation (DRV) is proud to present the updated framework training concept.
From Chick to Eagle is an integrated framework for the development of all age and playing levels and enables age-appropriate development of physical and playing skills. Health and ensuring stress tolerance are central pillars. A safe environment, as well as timely and developmentally appropriate support, is designed to progressively introduce athletes to the stresses and strains of rugby.
Top sporting performances can only be achieved in full physical and mental health. In addition to strengthening the sport at grassroots level, a clear objective of the German Rugby Federation is to strengthen the national teams in the long term with physically robust, mentally resilient players who are adept at the game.
From the FUNdament up to high performance sport, players in all age groups learn rugby-specific, sport-motor skills before they are specifically trained and educated from youth/junior age up to adulthood. The early focus on athletic skills and basic technical skills is an important prerequisite for this performance development.
The long-term, broad basis lays better foundations for later focused performance development. The training concept includes player:in-centred training and aims to counteract a too early goal- and team-oriented approach. Individual development should take precedence over team success in the first years of this support. Children who are weaker in the game are thus sufficiently encouraged and challenged.
Individual, personal development is very much in the foreground.
The key factors for a holistic development of the player are the following four points:
1. physical skills (speed, strength, agility, endurance, coordination, physical readiness, robustness, sensory-motor skills).
2. technical-tactical training
3. mental strength
4. lifestyle choices and personal development within a learning-oriented environment.
The teaching of values such as respect, courtesy, punctuality, commitment and pride in achievements should contribute to the development of players in the rugby environment, not only from a sporting point of view. The development of the individual off the field should be ensured and supported.
Soft skills such as teamwork, cohesion, reliability as well as the individual development of self-confidence and self-esteem, ambition, determination and the realisation of individual goals are accompanied and promoted. The dual career support enables athletes not only to achieve their sporting goals but also to secure a professional and thus financial future.
The German Rugby Federation attaches great importance to ensuring that the training of coaches reflects and supports these values and the development of these skills, and that coaches also implement and demand these in their training.
The framework training concept covers all developmental and age groups equally and enables the "experience of rugby" to be carried out safely and passionately and to take up the sport of rugby at different levels.
