What
is the GamePlanner system?
The system is a way to keep all your plans, drills and coaching
ideas in animated form and all in one place. They are then easier
to access and present.
If you want to create, save and download drills, paractices and
training sessions use Rugby SessionPlanner
If you want to create moves from scrums, lineouts, rucks and mauls
use Rugby GamePlanner
If you want a coaching manual on one of the world's greatest coaches
use Rugby - Understanding the Moving Game"
GamePlanner products are ideal to help formulate your ideas. They
are also an incredible powerful way to present your ideas to players,
fellow coaches and on coaching courses.
GamePlanner can be seen as a computerised flipchart. You "draw"
on the screen as you would with a flipchart. Unlike a flipchart,
you can:
See your plans and drills in animation
Amend plans and drills
Save plans and drills
Email plans and drills
Download plans and drills
Each GamePlanner product clearly shows the lines of running and
passes that make up your plan.
When complete you can see in Action! the plan you have created.
With so many tight, well-organised defences in all sports, space
is at a premium. GamePlanner products help you identify that space
and get your message across to players and fellow coaches.
We have incorporated well-known "drawing" techniques such as dragging
and dropping. For example you can select the "Player" button
and "Drop" the player on to the pitch. Then select the
"Run" button. to drag out a line of running for that player.
The "Pass" and Kick" features work in the same way.
You can click Action! at any time to see your plan in animation.
That way you can see if the plan will work and amend accordingly.
When completed save your plan. You plan is now saved in your database.
You can though: Amend the plan
Clone the plan
Email the plan
Save the plan\s to floppy disk and CD
Within minutes you will be creating new plans and drills and developing
strategies.
Products
Rugby SessionPlanner
Rugby SessionPlanner enables you to create and save drills and training
sessions. The software comes with 55 drills from top coaches, you
can create your own drills and download drills from our website.
Very quickly you will have a library of drills that you can use
to create training sessions. You can also make post session notes.
You can copy sessions to use and amend on another occasion and you
can print them out.
Click here for more information.
Rugby GamePlanner
Rugby GamePlanner enables you to create moves from set-piece and
open play.
You can create plays that move from phase to phase and outline your
moves around free kicks, drop-outs, kick-offs.
You can set defensive formations and set questions to your players
and students.
For more information click
here.
Action! Books
Action! Books are a way to bring coaching manuals alive. A conventional
coaching book can only give you diagrams and text. Sometimes the
diagrams are not as helpful as they might be. With Action! Books
you still get the diagram but if you click on it you can see the
play, drill or practice in animation. Also, if the author has created
a video clip for the plan, drill or practice you can see that as
well. This gives the reader plenty of opportunities to digest the
information. Our first Action! Book is by Lynn Evans RFU RDO and
is called “Rugby – Understanding the Moving Game”. It is an explanation
of the Coaching Methods of one of the worlds most respected Rugby
Union Coaches, Pierre Villepreux.
Click here for more information
GamePlanner Aims and Objectives
Our aim at GamePlanner is to make all our products: Valuable
to you the coach.
As easy to use as possible
Effective for the purpose intended
Affordable
We aim to:
Listen to you the end user
All our software development is now based upon FEEDBACK. Help us
to help you.
The principle tools needed to create plans.
These are some of the basic tools of GamePlanner products. These
tools are in all software. We have made reference to them here to
give you an idea of what the software is all about. For more information,
please go to the relevant product
 run
Place the crosshairs over the player you wish to make the run. Click
the left-hand side of the mouse and hold. Drag the line of running
to your chosen position and release the mouse. The line of running
can be changed at any point by clicking "De-Select". Place
the pointer over the player whose running you wish to change, left
click, hold and drag to the new position. Curved or "J" runs can
be made this way by making a run of, say, 30m out of 6 runs of 5m.
You can then drag at a point along that line to create a curve of
your choice. The player's line of running will be the same colour
as the team.
 pass
A pass can be made from a player or from any point along the player's
line of running. Just like real life. The system recognises when
a line of running has been crossed and so you do not need to place
the crosshairs on the line of running but slightly to one side.
Click the left-hand side of the mouse and hold. Now DRAG the pass
line to another player or across another player's line of running
to create the pass. A continuous black line denotes the pass.
 kick
Place the crosshairs over the player you wish to make the kick,
then click the left-hand side of the mouse, hold and DRAG the kick
to any position on the pitch. Moving a player onto the ball at the
end of the kick will attach the player to the ball, as though the
player caught the ball. A kick is de-noted by a green broken line
with a blue ball at the end.
  pen and eraser
This enables you to present your GamePlans using traditional methods
or to highlight a particular section of play. Clicking the eraser
button will remove all lines. Any lines drawn on the pitch will
remain when running a plan through.
 notes
Clicking this button opens a window. Here you can name the plan
you are working on and add details about the plan or any phase within
that plan. Information on who created the notes and when they were
created will appear on the screen. This is a very useful feature
to highlight individual responsibilities.
Summary
GamePlanner provides the most sophisticated sports coaching software
available. Our products are easy to use and yet incredible powerful
communication tools. Organise defensive stratergies and
see them in Action !
Make notes on plans and any phase within a plans to highlight
player’s responsibilities
An easy to use database, invaluable for maintaining all team
or drill details.
Save, print and email all plans
Print out plans, any phase within the plan, team sheets, players'
details and lots more
Add video clips to plans\drills
Essential for players, coaches and officials at all levels
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