Fiji Airways Men's National 7s coach, Gareth Baber is looking for repeat individual efforts, accuracy of skills and decision making under pressure as his 16 players vie for a place in the national side for the Rugby World Cup Sevens.

The squad are 5 days into their intensive preparations and Baber is already seeing positive returns out of the unique training environment.

Scrimmaging against teams from the Utah Open State Sevens Tournament on Friday, then a tournament All‑Star team on Saturday, Baber says his team had to overcome some obstacles as they fought through stress and fatigue.

Baber is using the match play simulations to finesse structures and systems as well as putting his men through some good game time under stress and fatigue, with the purpose of finding the ‘edge’ to take in San Francisco next week.

As the players continue to prepare with their eyes on selection in that 12, every minute spent at their 7,000 ft altitude training base is providing an edge most have never previously experienced.

The Fiji Airways Men’s 7s will remain at the Utah training base until the end of the week, before flying into San Francisco on Sunday.

Meanwhile four players with links to Fiji have been named in the Japan 7s team.

They include Kameli Soejima, Jone Naikabula, Josefa Lilidamu and Jose Seru.

Japan will play their first game against Uruguay at 10.13am next Saturday.

The winner will take on Fiji at 3.57pm next Saturday.

Barring any upsets, they will either meet Argentina or Canada in the Cup quarterfinals at 10.54am next Sunday, they will either meet Australia or New Zealand in the cup semifinals at 8.02am Monday the 23rd of this month and will either meet South Africa, England or USA in the final at 12.49pm Monday the 23rd of this month.

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