TackleTek - Letter to The Lions Community

Hello Lions Community,

At Lions Sports Academy our mission is to help young people realise their potential through sport and we aim to do this through a child-centred approach. This means we put each child at the heart of their own journey and we aim to identify the individual needs of each child to accelerate their learning and improve their skills and experience playing sport.

For the past few years, we’ve been working closely with our rugby community to improve the tackling skills of players to make the game safer and make players more confident in their ability.

In doing so we noticed that there were no appropriate tackling assessments for grassroots rugby, so we set to work designing, developing and testing a tool to understand the competency of a player’s tackling ability. This led to the creation of the TackleTEK Tool.

At Lions we don’t do things by halves, so after we developed our TackleTEK criteria and testing protocol with grassroots coaches we had the protocol independently assessed by Swansea University. 

The research team assess the reliability of grassroots coaches using the TackleTEK Tool to determine children’s tackling competency over a season. The results of their study found that coaches could reliably assess children’s tackling competency as a whole skill and also identify actions within the pre-contact, contact, and post-contact phases of the tackle.

This means that we have the ability to not only test a child’s tackling competency but can identify areas for improvement to help with the coaching process by developing clear goals for technical development. This will mean that we can help you individualise training programmes to your team's needs improving the competency of their tackling and making the game safer for all!

 We look forward to working with our partner schools and clubs to improve rugby for the grassroots community.

Yours sincerely, 

Lions Sports Academy


 

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