Isaac Marsh is on a mission to become a professional rugby player.

The 24-year-old was previously on the books with Gloucester, but left a few years ago. He's now at Cardiff Met, and alongside his successful coaching business, he's attempting to become an elite-level sportsman.

Using his coaching platform of 'Kaizen Rugby', Marsh has been documenting his journey every single day, with a fresh video going up for his followers every 24 hours. It portrays just how much effort goes in to gaining those extra one per cents to make it as a professional.

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He started the videos after suffering an injury at the start of the season, so he's used the platform to document his rehabilitation process and ambitions to make it in rugby

We caught up with Marsh and he filled us in on his journey in life so far.

Hailing from Cheltenham, he started playing rugby when he was five years old and went through the Gloucester Rugby youth set-up. Starting at under-13s, Marsh then advanced onto Hartpury College to study sports coaching. His first roommates at Hartpury were Italy international Stephen Varney and ex-rugby star Louis Rees-Zammit.

"If you roommate with me, you'll end up being an international rugby player, that's what I always say!" joked Marsh to WalesOnline.

He then signed a contract with Gloucester for four years as part of their senior academy, where you train with the first team. Marsh then explained that a shoulder injury hampered his progress with the Premiership club. "I could sense it was coming to the end, I wasn't making much progress, probably going to get released, so I left there halfway through the season, 2021/2022."

The Cheltenham man ended up coming to Cardiff after meeting his now-girlfriend via Rees-Zammit. "I went and stayed with Louis in lockdown," continued Marsh. "After lockdown I continued to be over here (Cardiff) and stay with him. My girlfriend is friends with his brother (Taylor), so I've been here for the last two or three years with her."

Marsh finished his degree in Hartpury and then decided it was the right time to study and play rugby at Cardiff Metropolitan University, living just five minutes from the campus. "If you can get into the team it's a good platform if you play well you can get noticed by the clubs," he continued. "When I finished my (Gloucester) contract, money was an issue, I was 21, 22, suddenly out of rugby and I needed a job. So I had a couple of jobs behind bars and supply teaching, I hated it.

"From doing professional rugby to then going into a real job that everyone's used to, I just struggled with it. I was trying to think of ways to make money from it, and that's where Kaizen Rugby came to fruition."

Kaizen is Marsh's rugby coaching business, where he offers tailored one-to-one coaching for players and teams. He offers the full package too, which comes under the 'Kaizen Rugby Academy', offering a combination of one-to-one mentorship, in-person rugby coaching, online strength and conditioning programmes, nutritional guidance and video analysis.

Marsh continued to explain why he started Kaizen. "I was trying to think, 'what knowledge and skills do I have?'," he said. "What do I enjoy? I started creating some videos and I found out I was actually OK at creating them. If I watch back the earlier videos now, I hate them, which I'm sure I'll do for videos now, in two years' time! That's the same with everything."

Speaking about his video series of trying to become a professional rugby player, Marsh explained that practice makes perfect when it comes to producing content alongside his already busy life. "If you edit a video everyday for the next 160-odd days, you do get quicker," said Marsh. "The biggest thing is the voice notes. I do a voiceover trying to explain what I've done that day, but also match it to the video, but also at the right time, so at the start, that was tricky. It is time-consuming, but it's my job now, thankfully."

Now at Cardiff Met, Marsh is studying a part-time Masters in sports coaching. Instead of taking one year, it's three, so he's not in class very much. It's just one assignment per term for him, which allows him to put time and effort into Kaizen Rugby. He explains that he decided to go part-time so that he would be eligible to play BUCS Super Rugby for longer.

"This whole, becoming a professional rugby player - the first day of the season I tore my hamstring in quite a difficult place to recover from, a specific junction in the hamstring," he said. "One - I needed to create content, I couldn't do kicking or anything like that, so I had to get an idea to still get content out there. Two - it's quite a therapeutic rehab thing for me. If I'm documenting it, it gave me a little bit of motivation for me to come back from rehab. The hamstring has been the most annoying and recent one."

Speaking about his journey to become a professional rugby player, Marsh said: "I can't say I'm any closer so far, since I've started the vlogs. I've only played five or six games since coming back from injury, so a lot of the vlogging process was just getting back from injury. I'm back playing now that I'm fit. I'm not playing as well as I'd like to. I'm still third or fourth-choice 12 even at Cardiff Met. There are like 400-plus players, so it's so competitive.

"I'm no closer, but I haven't lost any enthusiasm, obviously."

Speaking about his rugby international mates Varney and Rees-Zammit, Marsh explained how they came to be pals. "I was very close with both of them in college and the first few years there at Gloucester Rugby," he said. "Naturally, as people do, I probably haven't been as close with Stephen Varney, but still good friends.

"Louis, he's my best mate, so I chat to him all the time."

Marsh is in his second year out of three at Cardiff Met, with the finishing line in sight next summer. While he is determined to make it in professional rugby, he says that he'd be happy to go down the coaching route for a career. "Kaizen Rugby will always be there for me in the next 10-15 years, I think, unless I stop enjoying it. Whether I make or don't make it (in rugby) that will keep going. If I do make it, it'll make it better because I'll be learning more, I'll get more coaching myself so I can help others achieve their own dreams.

"If you're asking whether I'll give up if I don't make it in a couple of years... If I don't get a professional contract in the next year or two, I'd still like to think I'd get a semi-professional contract or at a decent level. Even then, I'd only be 25/26 max. I still have some decent time to try and make it. You have to keep going, you have to see what happens.

"I'm trying to get people to say their dreams, say their aspirations. Not be arrogant or be like 'I'm definitely going to make it', you still have to work hard, but 'this is what I want to do, I'm going to go for it', that's the kind of message I'm trying to put out there."

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