A big part of why the Boks’ conditioning has come in for less mention than that of Japan, New Zealand & England is because Erasmus kept his conditioning coach, Aled Walters, so much of a secret weapon that he didn’t once allow him to speak to the media.
As our collective jaws have dropped at the relentless physicality of the Springbok pack, as well as a defence that presented the opposition attack with nothing but blind alleys, many of us may have overlooked the fact that lung-busting conditioning was the launching pad from which Erasmus’ demanding game plan was executed.
A big part of why the Boks’ conditioning has come in for less mention than that of Japan, New Zealand and England is because Erasmus has kept his conditioning coach, Aled Walters, so much of a secret weapon that he didn’t once allow him to speak to the media. “Not a lot of people understand that, with conditioning, you have a very small window of opportunity to get what you want right. They’ve got it right, and hats off to them.
Steele said the conditioning had been the key to the Springboks’ physicality and the unyielding nature of their defence. His example was how Scotland failed to impose their game plan on Japan simply because they couldn’t outmuscle them, while the Boks could do just that, and Japan’s take-away from their Last 8 match against South Africa being that working at a breakneck speed and intensity alone wasn’t enough.
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