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Rugby: Hit And Roll Ruck Clear Out

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A tackling exercise to be completed in pairs.
One player stands over a tackle tube, while holding a tackle bag themself against their chest.
The tackler begins lying down with chest on the floor ready to go.
The tackler gets to their feet quickly, and gets low before tackling the opponent/tackle bag with force.
The aim is for the tackler to rip the tackle bag away from the opponent, and roll away.

The tackler should maintain a strong, low body position when tackling.
Arms should be wrapped around the bag, get a strong hold of the bag and force it out of the hands of the opponent.
When rolling, the players should roll to the side, parallel to the tackle tube.
If rolling to the right, the right shoulder should hit the floor, then roll across on their back, before rolling round so that the player is facing the ground with the tackle bag beneath them.

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A drill to be completed in pairs.
One player holding a tackle bag stands in a low, strong position with knees bent.
The player is standing with one foot either side of a tackle tube on the floor, with their weight forward.
The other player starts lying on the floor in a half press-up position ready to go.
The tackler needs to get to their feet quickly, sidestep past the cone on the floor and tackle the player holding the tackle bag.
Once the player with the tackle bag has been hit, the tackler drives through to clear the opponent out of a ruck.

Ruck Clear Out

Place 2 sausages perpendicular from eachother in a T shape.

Have one player line up a couple meters away from the bag.

Conditioning drill, the player does reps of clearing the bag, running back to the line, doing a down up and going again.

Ruck Clear Out

step 1 - players perform a down up - chest to the floor.

Step 2 - Players make a double shoulder hitbetween 2 bags opposite.

Step 3 - active player moves down the line to hit the next group of 2 bags.

At the end players start again, aim to do 2/3 min sets then swap the bags.

Ruck Clear Out

Groups of 4 and two groups of defenders with contact pads. 1 ball per group.

The ball carrier drives into the contact pads and presents ball backwards. Player 2 binds on, face to face and secures ball, player 3 binds on the other side to form a front row.
All attackers bind together and drive defenders back 2-3 metres. Player 4 takes ball out at back and runs back around cone with players 1-3 in support.
Repeat going back the other way until all attackers have practised each role.

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