Aaron Feld, Rugby Guy and the meaning of life

[Lazarre]

I’m not going to act like I know much about the science behind S&C but this seems like nitpicking. Handing picking games Oregon lost and determining Felds routine off a television segment doesn’t seem fair. Every coach has pros and cons.

Feeley gets credit for the team never being gassed but the Oline could not generate a push in the running game for 3 years. Does that make him a bad S&C? Of course not. I think it’s best to use the wait and see approach with Feld before judging him.

 

[Cryptical Envelopment]

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[Ironmanfootball]

Also, If you tell someone "This is going to help your ankle stability" they may not go as hard as if you said "this is going to make you faster". It may be misleading but when your dealing with kids I guess you have to try different motivation techniques in the weightroom.

Feld doesn’t work with kids. He works with grown men who are well educated on the tight rope walk of making rah rah videos for guys who control their fate / can bury them with scouts and making their own living now with NIL.

It’s WWE on grass, brother.

 

[gabednconfused]

I don’t have context but as a pretty adv gym user, explain to me how this is incorrect advice? I don’t see a rebuttal from mr rugby

 

[Redstate12]

This is interesting.

A rugby strength coach who has a very sizable following on Twitter (25k) decided to take umbrage with Feld earlier in the week for some reason. He seems to think Feld’s techniques are BS.




Another big time strength coach (30k followers) chimed in as well:




Feld never responded directly but sent this out:

I have always wondered why NFL or College football haven't looked into snatching up a S&C Coach from Pro Rugby. I would imagine that higher level of conditioning is required for Rugby plus the brutal amount of contact without pads would require intense specialized training to prevent injury. We have an Ausi kicker I'm sure he could provide insight.

Dumb idea? Honest question open to real critical responses.

 

[calinative umstudent]

I don’t have context but as a pretty adv gym user, explain to me how this is incorrect advice? I don’t see a rebuttal from mr rugby

I think the point is it specifically does nothing to actually improve speed....not that it is a bad thing to do, as it can really help ankle strength which is assume can help prevent injuries...

 

[Unsider]

Wut in the wurld is rugby?

 

[gabednconfused]

I think the point is it specifically does nothing to actually improve speed....not that it is a bad thing to do, as it can really help ankle strength which is assume can help prevent injuries...

Got it. No way to be able to say this negatively affects speed so I think these twitter trolls are grasping for straws

 

[WIN]

Coach getting punked before he even steps foot on campus... yeah this doesn't bold well boys

 

[gruntking]

Coach getting punked before he even steps foot on campus... yeah this doesn't bold well boys

They won't say it to his face.

 

[Rellyrell]

Uh oh lol

Agree w/ all this, including weight lifting shoes. Very important.

 

[Ironmanfootball]

Charlie Francis is one of the best speed coach of all time and people **** on him. Lot of dip****s who want to think their methods are responsible for genetic monsters.

And the funny part of Charlie Francis is... have you ever seen him? Dan Aykroyd in smaller shorts

Dude was the man though

 

[We the Boss]

And the funny part of Charlie Francis is... have you ever seen him? Dan Aykroyd in smaller shorts

Dude was the man though

The Alex Mirabal of speeed. LOL

 

[We the Boss]

Agree w/ all this, including weight lifting shoes. Very important.

Tough to say with sponsors, but kids can buy chuck Taylor’s if there isn’t budget. I find anything over 250 is very dangerous in cross trainers with foam sole shoes.

The straps on cleans is unheard of to me. I can’t image doing that.

 

[AUcane]

All the rage over a 5 minute TV puff piece, good morning america, style while doing a young mom workout with a cute girl? As someone said, Nick wanted him....back.

 

[JHallCanes]

As anyone in the S&C/fitness/health field can attest to

It’s a never ending exhausting industry full of people that think they know more than everyone else and post content like this endlessly

We actually talked about how this video was not very indicative of a lot of his training videos anyway

Not defending Feld, but this is a total non issue to me

 

[423Hurricane]

We can all buy fake handlebars and wear them to games.

 

[We the Boss]

@nystateofmind knows the board got bottom topics.

Amazing work OP.

 

[hharvey09]

My friend is in the coaching profession and says Feeley is highly respected.

Duke

 

[AlexCane]

I'm partial to Feeley. I have some contacts deeply embedded within the S&C community here locally and nationally who spoke very highly of Feeley (and not well of our prior two strength coaches). So I'm not crazy about the change (if that's in fact the case). There's a little too much "look at me" for my liking. It's like he's a part time coach/part time social media influencer.