You have a long way to go.
Everyone starts off as an attacker, with the exception of freedivers, who can and should play goalie first! But when the goals are 8 meters away, the classic roles don’t mean much. What matters the most is the sequence and timing of the players diving. It boils rugby down to a constant dilemma of taking a risk or playing it safe.
As time passed, people started moving to other places for jobs, getting families, training went down, we lost our pool (due to years of underset maintenance) for about a year and a half, losing the Champions Cup, the National championship, and Felix Cup. During those years we, to my memory alone lost 4-5 beginners of ages 12-25 that would potentially have become really good. That is something that many of us deeply regret today.
The Current has been operating for one and a half years. The first training was held in May 2019, two of us tested the fresh purchase of UWR balls. Since then the club has grown a lot, as of now we have 6 players licensed by the federation and 23 on the entry list of the National Swimming Complex.
Let me remind you, that most training guides assume a full team training at regular times in a proper diving pool, with a coach on the surface. Furthermore, they assume that all individuals within the team coached share the same goals such as being champions. But few teams start like that.
I think I know quite much about rugby teams, but I never really had an idea, what a coach does. Something I needed myself, something I needed to do myself.
The Orcas helped us out as always and 3 of us got to play with the Serbian team. My plan was that we stay back and use the extra weight to top the defense in front of the goal, but that wasn't happening much.
There is very little literature on the topic of training UWR, most clubs build their training on the base of trial and error and try to learn the methods of other clubs. This training concept may be helpful for new clubs in developing their own training methods.
“If you don't have enough money, sell your house. If your job will not let you off on Fridays, get a new job. If your wife or girlfriend complains about too much rugby, get a new woman,”
"The more complex a movement is, the more it's worth to take it apart to it's elements in order to learn it. Googles and snorkel are required so that breathing, which coordinates the whole process, can be left to be practiced at the end, while fins are to aid proper body pose and technique. The board allows the movement of legs and arms to be practiced separately, and I've noted swimsuits too, because too often you see newbies wearing beach shorts at the pool which act like flimsy breaking chutes in the water."
By swimming like a backstroke swimmer coming on the wall with just enough space for the dolphin kick below, most of the blind spots disappear.