With the rugby season in the southern hemisphere well under way, rugby clubs throughout New Zealand and Australia are battling for supremacy in their specific grades. Many school and interschool competitions are giving birth to a new breed of future All Blacks and Wallabies, displaying a level of skill that is only seen in the worlds best up and coming players. With many schools, universities and junior rugby clubs expanding their seasons and training regimes, the end of year tours and school rugby tours are becoming a popular medium for ongoing training, experience and team building.
With the Rugby World Cup being hosted in New Zealand in 2011, all international attention is being focussed on New Zealand. This is being correlated with an increased demand from schools and universities within Australia and the wider South Pacific region to use New Zealand as a base for their school rugby tours. With school rugby teams having the ability to play and train on the same grounds that their countries team will be competing on for Rugby World Cup glory in 2011, there is no other country that can offer such an experience. Combined with the high level of rugby being played at all grades and age groups in New Zealand, organising a rugby school tour in New Zealand provides rugby teams to play against some of the best in the world. This enables teams from Australia to not only hone their skills and playing ability, but to battle in the long standing grudge history of competition that stands between New Zealand and Australia. There is no doubt that we invented the Pa vlova, but it is up to your school or university rugby team to prove that wrong on your rugby school tour of New Zealand.
Building individual skill levels, team cohesion and developing game plans and strategies is the ultimate goal for all school rugby tours. Leading tour companies in New Zealand that specialise in sports and rugby tours have access to some of the best training facilities and coaches available. One such facility is based at Massey University, in Palmerston North; termed the International Rugby Academy. Close relationships foster between leading New Zealand educational and sports tours companies provides access to the same facilities as utilised by the All Blacks and Super 15 teams for their training, recovery and strategy needs. There are numerous specialist facilities accessible here including the indoor training room which has nylon-stranded Field Turf has recycled rubber chip and sand combed through it to absorb the impact of a fall while giving the feel of real grass underfoot. Unlike other synthetic surfaces there are no burns associated with this installation. The scrum room features a hydraulic scrum machine which provides an undercover alternative to scrum training, which can push against the team using it and has adjustable levels to suit. It can wheel left and right as well as move up and down to simulate real scrummaging actions. This is only the beginning!
Furthermore, leading rugby and sports school tour companies have close relationships with current and ex-All Blacks. Upon request, their presence can be arranged for a simple meet and greet, formal evening or a specific training session. For your next rugby school tour, dont leave anything to chance: choose a leading New Zealand sports and rugby tour company that can ensure an end of season tour or training tour produces tangible benefits for your rugby team.
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