I am coaching the Under 14s along with a great team of coaches and it looks like we will have a really good team. Using the new techniques that a couple of us have acquired at the IRB Coaches Certification Training a few weeks, the learning curve was tremendously faster.
As another note, I recently was certified as a referee and will begin doing some of the youth games and may do a few Men's games. The training was incredible for me as I have never been all thet technical with the laws and now I understand a whole lot that did not make sense before. I am going to recomend the training to all of my coaches to help them better prepare all of the kids to play better. Now I just have to figure out what I am doing when i am actually refereeing. I did not realize how much a ref does and has to know until now. I am going to be doing a lot of learning and practicing before the season starts.