Rugby: 1v1 Clap Tackle - Warm up

Ingrain correct techniques and habits into your players with this session as we focus on tackling and rucking skills.

• Small playing area, for 1 v 1 tackling.
• Players line up in two lines adjacent to the coned area.
• Coach shouts go and the front two players run round their end to end up facing each other.
• The coach passes the ball to the attacker who runs at the defender, and the defender tries to take them down.

• 2 on 2 tackling and clear out game.
• Players line up in two lines, adjacent to the coned gameplay area.
• The coach stands opposite the two lines with the ball and passes to the front player of either team.
• The front two players of each team run round the back of their cones and the ball carrier takes the ball into contact.
• The two secondary players then ruck over and attempt to clear each other out.
• One team comes away with the ball.

• Groups of 3.
• Progression.

1. Wrestling 

Players link up, one arm under & one arm over each shoulder. 

Players then pick a side to wrestle to, then give a count down and fight to force opposition on the side they chose to wrestle to.

2. Tackle on Knees 

Each player takes turns to complete tackles on there knees. 

3. You can make this fun and competitive by counting how many tackles a player completes in a certain amount of time.

Set up a wide pitch, with cones on the half way line plus an extra box on two opposite corners. These corner boxes are the prisons for tackled/tagged players.

The aim of the game is for players to run into the opposing team's area and grab a ball to bring back into their ball area in their half.

However, if a player is tackled/tagged while in the other team's half they must go and stand in the prison square.

Players can be released from prison by being tagged by a team-mate. Once released they must walk around the outside of the pitch back to their own half before rejoining the game.