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Finding Your Flow: The Bahamas 7s Playbook for Optimal Performance and Cohesion
This article explores a pre-tournament strategy session with the Bahamas 7s team, focusing on five key principles for individual and collective success.
Dec 26, 2025
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Jamie Barnwell
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Beyond the Scoreboard: The Power of Psychological Safety in High-Performance Teams
In 2012, Google launched a massive multi-year research project called Project Aristotle to find out what made their top-performing teams successful.
Dec 17, 2025
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Jamie Barnwell
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Insights - Defence Patterns
7 Up Defence
Nov 26, 2025
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Jamie Barnwell
Insights - Restarts
Every KO is linked to a try - competing, mopping up and cat and mouse games.
Nov 26, 2025
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Jamie Barnwell
Insights - Attack Game Model
Preparations that led to the first silverware in 20 years
Nov 26, 2025
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Jamie Barnwell
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Delivering Powerful Halftime Messages in Rugby 7s
Transforming your team in just 2 Minutes.
Aug 5, 2025
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Jamie Barnwell
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FreeJacks Tackle & Breakdown Blitz
Here's a great tackle and breakdown activity from my sabatical with the 3 Time MLR Champions the New England Free Jacks that is perfect for 7's.
Aug 4, 2025
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Jamie Barnwell
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Bronze Medal, Golden Lessons.
8 Insights from our Rugby Adventure at the U19 Rugby Americas North Championship 2025.
Jul 16, 2025
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Jamie Barnwell
Building a "Killer" Kicking Game
3 Must Have Games for Coaches in their Coaching Toolkit to transform your Kick Strategy.
May 12, 2025
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Jamie Barnwell
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How to Best Prepare Your 7s Team and What to Focus On.
The is the best time of the season! Having fun with you preparations but also having a clever, justified, intentional plan that will give you the best…
Apr 10, 2025
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Jamie Barnwell
Scan and Strike Touch
A great 4v4 game that can be used at any level to develop players ability to scan for numbers, mismatches and create overloads in attack by making sure…
Apr 9, 2025
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Jamie Barnwell
"A New Era of Defence" Master the 3-1-3 Hybrid System in Rugby Sevens.
The 3-1-3 Defence is a hybrid of the 6+1 and 7-Up Systems. It takes experienced players to understand the different pictures and when to operate between…
Apr 7, 2025
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Jamie Barnwell
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Defensive Masterclass- Unpacking the 3 Systems of Rugby Sevens: 7- Up
This is part 2 of the defensive masterclass, which focuses on the 7 Up System and the ideal alignments form centre field and edge rucks. A natural…
Apr 4, 2025
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Jamie Barnwell
Defensive Mastery: Unpacking the 3 Systems of Rugby Sevens
Implementing the correct defensive system that reflects the strengths of your team as well as having flexibility to switch between different systems to…
Apr 3, 2025
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Jamie Barnwell
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Welcome to Rugby 7s Playbook: Tactical Mastery, your premier destination for cutting-edge rugby sevens coaching and tactics. Curated by Jamie Barnwell, a renowned international 7s rugby coach.
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