Encouraging the players to get low. -Tackle Cylinders lying down. -Lightly weighted rugby balls or medicine balls. -A pole.
1. Get players in a line behinde the cylinder. 2. With the weighted ball, they adopt a low tower of power and push ball along cylinder ensuring the are low enough to get under pole. 3. Once to the end of cylinder they re-join the end of the line. To advance drill; -Take away pole. -Add cone to the end they must exelarate to. - Start without the ball, run over tackle bag without ball but still in that low position but pick heavier ball at the end off the cylinder.
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