Malaysia Rugby Union Hosts ACTIVATE Superweek With the picturesque backdrop of the Titiwangsa mountain range and fantastic training facilities at Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI) in Tanjung Malim, Perak, the Malaysian Ruby Union (MRU) and USPI hosted the World Rugby ACTIVATE and Training ...
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Players, unions and competitions support new guidelines for rugby contact training load
World Rugby and International Rugby Players have published new contact training load guidance aimed at reducing injury risk and supporting short and long-term player welfare. Best-practice contact training load guidelines aim to reduce injury risk while maintaining or improving performance ...
Concussion education driving surge in World Rugby course completions to 1.8m
World Rugby online learning course completions have surged in 2021 with more people per month engaging with the educational materials in the first three months of the year than in any other three-month period World Rugby online learning course completions have surged in 2021 with more people per ...
Player welfare research boosted by World Rugby funding injection
World Rugby has launched its annual call for applications to fund research projects with the aim of promoting evidence-based enhancements in player welfare priority areas, including concussion. Asia Rugby; Player Welfare Medical Committee World Rugby committed to research-guided advances in ...
Asia Rugby Hosts Inaugural World Rugby global pilot workshops for Leading Rugby
Asia Rugby Hosts Inaugural World Rugby global pilot workshops for Leading Rugby Late April 2020 - While most regions were still reeling from the impact of COVID-19 across the globe, Asia Rugby did a Region-wide survey to gather information on what Unions needed most for online Training & ...
UAE Rugby Federation unites Asia Rugby through a mega Get Into Rugby campaign
For the first time ever, the campaign saw 24 presenters from nine unions across Asia deliver the introduction to Get Into Rugby course through eight concurrent online Zoom calls. Sami Smara, Development and Training and Education manager at UAERF spearheaded and launched a massive campaign to ...
World Rugby course completions reach 1.5 million as e-learning surges during COVID-19 pandemic
1.5 million people have completed World Rugby courses since their inception in 2007 More than 140,000 people across 85 nations undertake World Rugby e-learning so far in 2020, double the total annual figure in 2019 More than 70,000 players, coaches, administrators and volunteers have ...
Ghaith Jalajel takes over the role of Asia Rugby Competitions Consultant.
Asia Rugby is delighted to announce that Ghaith Jalajel who is currently the Development Consultant for West Asia, will be taking on an additional role as Asia Rugby Competitions Consultant. Ghaith has been involved in Rugby in Asia since 2004 and is a World Rugby Master Trainer. He has extensive ...
World Rugby publishes COVID-19 return to rugby guidelines
World Rugby has published guidelines for the safe return to rugby activities in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic via its player welfare website. Guidelines intended to assist unions and competitions in devising own framework that is compliant with respective national social-distancing and ...
Sri Lanka Rugby committed to Growing the Game
Sri Lanka Rugby Union (SLRU) is committed to growing Rugby and is conducting a series of World Rugby Training & Education (T&E) programs targeting all provinces across the country. This follows a very successful mass participation and awareness drive that saw the SLRU conduct Get into ...