Get your players chopping down their opponents and build a formidable defence.
The focus of this session is to get your players tackling low, with their head in the right position and creating a ring of steel around the ball carriers legs.
Packed with a variety of drills, you'll be able to provide your players with a range of scenarios they might find themselves in come game day and be confident and comfortable in making the tackle.
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World Rugby's lower tackle height is no longer a trial. It is law in community rugby from this season, and unions choose waist or base of the sternum. Here is how to retrain your defence.
Lower tackle heights leave the ball free for longer and change the breakdown contest. If your ruck work has not been updated this pre-season, you are coaching last season's game.
Long, lonely runs build lungs, not rugby players. Here's how to build a pre-season that puts fitness where the game needs it - with a ball in hand and a decision to make.
