what does catching the ball between the legs acheive for the players
Quick Hands Drills
DESCRIPTION
Hold the ball between your legs, one hand behind, one hand in fornt. Gently throw the ball up and swap your hands, from back to front and front to back and catch the ball before it touches the ground. Flexing legs. See how quickly you can do this, how many in 30secs.
Quick Hands Drills
DESCRIPTION
Hold the ball between your legs, one hand behind, one hand in fornt. Gently throw the ball up and swap your hands, from back to front and front to back and catch the ball before it touches the ground. Flexing legs. See how quickly you can do this, how many in 30secs.
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Rugby CoachCoach
I think maybe it focuses total attention on ball. a good exercise in hand eye co-ordination. Useful in close quarter passing and off loads senarios, especially amongst forwards who at rucks can be recieveing ball at such heights i would think. would also love to here others comments.
Josh MacyCoach, United States of America
This drill is used in other sports I've played too (Grid-Iron, Basketball), and is designed to improve the all around feel for the ball. Hand and finger speed is necessary to execute basic passing and is especially important for offloading. People who are required to carry the ball a lot often start every practice with warm-ups like this.
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