Charles Dudley - You Either Win or You Learn

The Journey of a Grassroots Rugby Coach (More Tracksuits less Business Suits)

Today’s guest is Charles Dudley Charles is currently the lead Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Queensland Reds Super W Team and the Nudgee College 1st XV. Charles has previously held roles within various organisations such as the Chinese Olympic Committee Ice Hockey program, and the Victorian Weightlifting Association. Complementing his strength and conditioning background, Charles also worked as a Rugby coach for seven years, coaching 1st XV, Club and Melbourne Rebels Pathways programs across both mens, womens, 15's and 7's programs in Victoria. Charles is currently completing his PhD, investigating novel ways of assessing training load in adolescent athletes. During our chat we spoke about how the S and C coach and the rugby can work together with the technical and tactical aspects of coaching. How as a grassroots coach you can get rid of your conditioning blocks and make training more intense. Also, we discussed setting decision making activities in training and finding what is a players motivation. We discussed being responsible for your own development and choosing your mentors wisely, also not being afraid to take risks. I really hope you enjoy this chat and hopefully you can get some great take aways with regards the S and C space and grassroots coaching.