Rugby: Press Up Position

Tell your players the following.....

1. Ball carrier on the lower right cone advances to the center of the grid, drops and pop the ball to a player coming from the opposite cone. That player then pops the ball to the player waiting at the cone they are running towards.
2. The player on the ground must clear the area right away.
3. The waiting ball carrier at the upper right cone then advances and does the same as above.
4. The sequence repeats.

Tell the players the following......

1. When the attack advances the defenders PRESS UP on the attack.
2. The attackers must pass the ball down the line, no inside passes.
3. The defenders PUSH/DRIFT across pushing the attack towards the sideline.
4. When the attack reaches the end of the grid, if it reaches the end - the attack turn and sets - as does the defence. The exercise restarts.
5. This is a full contact exercise.

• Don't forget to switch defenders into attack.

The sequence of passing on this exercise is as following......

1. P2 passes to P1, who passes to P4.
2. As the same time P3 passes to P2 who passes to P1, who passes to P3.
3. P1 passes to P3 , and so the exercise continues.

• There should be no delay in passes.

Tell your players the following......

1. The two bottom players will be the feeders, they will be positioned by the cones with the balls.
2. It's a race, team against team.
3. The idea is to take the ball from the feeder and pass it down the line, with the last player setting the ball on the ground.
4. The ball must travel through each players hands.
5. The winning team is the team that can get all their balls down the line the fastest.
6. Any dropped balls must be returned to the start of the line, to the feeder who will pass them out again.

• You can keep the race going by having the last reciever feed the balls back. So all the balls must travel up and back down the line.