Rugby: Hit and Drive Ruck Clearout

• 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.

• tackle sausage 

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. 

2 people are on the tackle shields or 2 on each side about 5 metres apart facing each other, there is a ball carrier standing in the middle of the two defenders with one or two attackers. Ball carrier runs into defender/s and places the ball, the supporting player/s must clear away the defenders. Each attacker must have a go at hitting the defender and placing the ball.

• Groups of 10+ 
• Tackle bags 
• Cones

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.