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Rugby: Scrum: Explosive engage impact

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Groups of 2.
Tackle Bag.

-Players stand no more than 1m away from eachother.

- Working player must get into strong T.O.P position.

- Then explode firing from the glutes and hips into the bag opposite.

- After the intial impact hold and squeeze for 4/5 seconds.

COACHING POINTS

Work on the tower or power

Head up, eyes forward
Hip and knees 90 degrees
Shins parallel to the floor
Line of back parallel to floor.

Feet

Shoulder width - weight forward
On toes.

Knees

90 degrees

Core

Imagine someone pulling a string through your belly button.
Squeeze in an down.

Hips

Pelvic tilited outwards.
Hips backwards
Like sitting down.

Elbows

Tight to body
T-rex arms

Scaps

Back and together
Holding pencil between the scaps.

Chest

Up and out

Head

Neutral
Look through eyebrows.

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OFTEN USED WITH...

Scrum: Warm up + Neck Stability:

Groups of 3.

- 2 players get into a strong T.O.P position.

- Another player starts to to standing press ups on to the heads of the 2 players.

- This encoruages neck and core strenth essential for a safe scrum.

Warm Up

Scrum: Bear Crawl & Leg Drive:

- The bear crawl is a movement that strengthens your core and adds stabillity to your spine.

- 2 things that need to be very strong while scrummaging.Â

- One player should bear crawl resisted for 5 steps.

- They should explode out the blocks working on his powerful legdrive.Â

Warm Up

Scrum Profile Stage 2:

The aim of the drill is to develop strong positive profiling and to develop core-stability.

Scrum

Scrum 1v1 - Long arm push:

1v1 scrumage
both players get into a scrum postion.
However do not lock hea dand shoulders, ut arms out infront of you and with your hands push against the other player shsoulders.

Warm Up

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