Canterbury Rugby's Coaches Corner

Riki is joined by Shadowbox Training's John Schmitt to talk about Focussing on Decision Making, and how this can be applied when coaches go about preparing for training sessions and games. 

In this episode, Riki talks to Dr Preston Cline from Mission Critical Team Institute. Preston is world renowned as a researcher and educator, with a lot of his work focused around training mission critical teams who have 300 seconds or less to action their decisions. Today’s conversation is all about how to train for uncertainty. They dive deep into Preston’s research on his 10 Principles of Navig...

Riki is joined by Liz today as they talk to Basketball New Zealand's Lori McDaniel, Community Lead here in Canterbury. The team have a wicked conversation about coaching, discussing the differences between good and great coaching.  Lori has also opened the challenge up for anyone keen to give Basketball coaching a go, email her here - lori@nz.basketball

Riki chats to Firefighter Jethro Locchead around the way problem solving and decision making impact his daily life, and ways that coaches can apply those lifesaving skills into making the right decision in their sessions and during game time. 

Join Riki as he chats with legendary coach Robbie Deans about standards and accountability in a team environment.  Robbie brings up a range of challenges for our community coaches and we want to hear from you about your thoughts on today's conversation! Please fill in all the required fields if you'd like to jump on The Coaches Corner Podcast and have a challenging conversation with Robbie De...

Join CRFU Game Developer Riki Tahere for a discussion around finding success in failure!

Join CRFU Game Developer Riki Tahere for a discussion on decision making with Leonard Zaichkowsky

Mental Skills Coach John Quinn joins Riki to discuss the importance of mental health in sport, at a time of increased importance for mental fitness.

Prebbleton U14.5 coach Brad Grainger joins Riki to discuss coaching at the grassroots level and talk about Brad's journey into Rugby coaching as the volunteering parent. 

Join Riki as he talks to Bay of Plenty based Kyle McLean about game based learning in coaching.

Riki is joined by Sport NZ's Roger Woods for a discussion on Teenage sport, with Blair Baxter and Jimmy Sinclair joining the discussion too! 

Riki sits down with Matt Todd to discuss his progression from playing to coaching, with the flanker beginning his coaching journey in the last couple of years, stretching from Rippa Rugby to the Bunnings NPC

Recorded before the end of the Club Rugby season, Riki sat down with Southbridge and Ellesmere coach Reece Allen to have a good chat about Reece's journey in coaching so far, and the landscape of created by coaching in Ellesmere. 

Riki is joined by the Farah Palmer Cup winning Assistant Coach Tony Christie to talk about skills and drills in coaching, as well as his journey transitioning from playing so far.

Riki is joined by University Women's Coach Mike Wilson to chat about ages and stages in coaching, and how this continues to be important across all of the different grades! 

Riki is joined by Glenmark Cheviot stalwart and current North Canterbury representative coach Matt Keane to chat about coaching out in the country and the opportunities present in our game currently for both players and coaches north of the Waimakariri!

Ellesmere Rugby RDO Nathan Brown and North Canterbury's Rugby Manager Craig Mullan join Riki to talk footy in their regions, and how country footy is set up for players to succeed.

Jimmy Sinclair joins Riki to talk about coaching with fun, making it enjoyable for both yourself and your players, as well as talking about a range of personal stories and experiences! 

Liz Worthington and Josh Sprott join Riki for Episode 3 of the Coaches Corner, talking all things female rugby and their experiences coaching the female side of the game! 

With the Farah Palmer Cup kicking off this week, Riki catches up with FPC Head Coach Blair Baxter to learn more about his journey into coaching, as well as what makes him tick as a coach and the little tips and tricks he uses to get the best out of his players, both in an amateur and high performance environment. 

New NPC Assistant Coaches Craig Dunlea and Alex Robertson join Riki to have a chat about their journeys into coaching, talking about the pathways that they have followed and the excitement the new season brings!