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Rugby: Scrum: Bear Crawl & Leg Drive

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DESCRIPTION

- 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. 

- One player should bear crawl resisted for 5 steps.

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

 

COACHING POINTS

Tower of Power 

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.

 

Bear Crawl

  • Opposite arm and opposite leg working. 
  • Tight Core - activated the whole time. 
  • Look through eyebrows

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  • Groups of 3. 

- 1 player is active, 2 players are resisiting. 

- Active player gets into scrumage position between 2 defending players.

- Tries to push both players back, like a scrum. 

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  • Groups of 3. 

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- the players holding the player above them must work together to move from side to side. 

- 5m each way.

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Scrum: Explosive engage impact:

  • 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.  

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