HIGH-LEVEL RUGBY COURSES

Need to progress and increase your level of play? Each program in our high performance and high level rugby summer courses is designed to cover the technical, tactical, mental and physical skills essential to reach your full potential as a rugby player. Focusing on position-specific workshops, skills development, mental strength, game intelligence and self-management, our high-level courses are designed to improve player performance both on and off the field. Our courses are total immersion, meaning that participants stay together on site for the duration of the course in an environment totally dedicated to rugby.

The AIR Top Coaches coaches are chosen from among rugby’s current and former elite, offering participants the opportunity to learn directly from the most competent in the world of rugby. The programs proposed below may be revised according to the different levels of Académie Internationale de Rugby (AIR) trainees. The aim is for trainees to experience training sessions similar to those of professional players. Academy trainees are trained like pros, by pros! So don’t hesitate to join the Académie Internationale de Rugby (AIR) for its upcoming summer high-performance rugby training courses.

PERFORMANCE TRAINING

Stage rugby m14

The Performance rugby course is designed for players born in 2008, 2009 and 2010 and with an FFR license (or equivalent abroad) who want to develop their technical, physical and mental performance.

The course program

Sprinting skills and techniques and posture
Speed and frequency work
Motor skills and agility, support work
Power and explosiveness
Reinvestment and transfer to rugby
Muscular strengthening and core training
Weight training with additional loads and introduction to weightlifting
Injury prevention and recovery
Individualized functional assessment

FORWARD
Scrum, role and technique – safety, posture and performance
Touch, role and technique, introduction to lifting and building the throw
Performing in the lift, understanding the triggers
Speed, movement and speed in the air, throwing in the three zones
Receiving the throw-back, reading the ball’s trajectory, communicating, lifting on the throw-back
Heeling , linking by line and coordinating the thrust

BACKS
Footwork (drop, grazing kick, occupying kick, candle)
Occupying and reoccupying the deep plane
Receiving a high ball on the spot and moving forward
Passing from line play (crossing, jumping, doubling, lifting, off-load, 45-degree pass)
Use of second curtain of attack

Duel and tools of the advance (activity of the standing player)
Ruck and conservation (carrier, support)
Activity of the player on the ground
Issue of the return to play
Defensive framing
Tackle and get up and counter ruck
Return to play and contest
Different types of pass

Reading and understanding the game: move forward where it’s easy
Keeping speed in the game
Positioning, adapting and communicating support
Creating open spaces and using them as quickly as possible
Positioning and repositioning to threaten all spaces
Willingness not to stop the ball

Understanding and managing encounters
Approach and strategic importance
Introduction to mental preparation
Controlling individual and collective emotional variations
Setting goals for a match and a period
Self-determination
Building post-training and post-meeting routines

Lifestyle hygiene for top-level athletes
Performance nutrition issues

ADVANCED TRAINING

Stage rugby m15-16

The Perfectionnement rugby course is designed for players born in 2011 and 2012 with an FFR license (or equivalent abroad) who want to develop their technical, physical and mental performance.

The course program

Sprinting skills and techniques and posture
Speed and frequency work
Motor skills and agility, support work
Power and explosiveness
Reinvestment and transfer to rugby
Muscular strengthening and core training
Weight training with additional loads and introduction to weightlifting
Injury prevention and recovery
Individualized functional assessment

FORWARD
Scrum, role and technique – safety, posture and performance
Touch, role and technique, introduction to lifting and building the throw
Performing in the lift, understanding the triggers
Speed, movement and speed in the air, throwing in the three zones
Receiving the throw-back, reading the ball’s trajectory, communicating, lifting on the throw-back
Heeling , linking by line and coordinating the thrust

BACKS
Footwork (drop, grazing kick, occupying kick, candle)
Occupying and reoccupying the deep plane
Receiving a high ball on the spot and moving forward
Passing from line play (crossing, jumping, doubling, lifting, off-load, 45-degree pass)
Use of second curtain of attack

Duel and tools of the advance (activity of the standing player)
Ruck and conservation (carrier, support)
Activity of the player on the ground
Issue of the return to play
Defensive framing
Tackle and get up and counter ruck
Return to play and contest
Different types of pass

Reading and understanding the game: move forward where it’s easy
Keeping speed in the game
Positioning, adapting and communicating support
Creating open spaces and using them as quickly as possible
Positioning and repositioning to threaten all spaces
Willingness not to stop the ball

Understanding and managing encounters
Approach and strategic importance
Introduction to mental preparation
Controlling individual and collective emotional variations
Setting goals for a match and a period
Self-determination
Building post-training and post-meeting routines

Lifestyle hygiene for top-level athletes
Performance nutrition issues

VIDEO CLIPS FROM PREVIOUS COURSES

COURSE DATES

Stage Performance (2008, 2009 and 2010):
From July 07 to 13, 2025
Stage Perfectionnement (2011 and 2012):
From July 15 to 21, 2025

WORKSHOP LOCATION

CREPS de Toulouse
1 Avenue Edouard Belin
31400 Toulouse

RATE

995 €
Full board for 7 days/6 nights
You can pay in 1, 3 or 5 instalments free of charge.
Some works councils pay for all or part of your children’s sports holidays.
  • Full board accommodation and meals for 7 days / 6 nights in a double room at CREPS Toulouse
  • Round-trip airport or train station transfer > CREPS with dedicated shuttle bus
  • Lecture courses (video analysis, lectures, mental preparation, nutrition…)
  • Access to facilities related to the internship program Access to a personalized follow-up platform for 1 year (player support)
  • Post-course technical and tactical evaluation
  • A detailed job evaluation of strengths, weaknesses and main areas for development
  • AIR T-shirt, cap, water bottle
  • Honorary diploma
  • Technical follow-up binder containing a course summary

Each player will be assigned a coach who specializes in that position, usually a former or current professional or even international player. He or she will work in coordination with a general coach (1 coach for every 12 players), providing the player with a detailed understanding of his or her qualities, progress and the challenges associated with his or her position during the course of his or her development plan.

Personalized follow-up is offered to players, on request, for one year via videoconference, where they can continue their exchanges with the coaches.

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