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2 V 1
category: Passing
- This is a simple 2 v 1.
- The two players have to get past the one defender without being touched, that's it.
- The defender wi...
2 Vs 1 + 1 In 2 Grids
category: Ball-Presentation
2 attackers with a half back attack a defender
The support player should be able to read the situation and apply the best techniques for bal...
3 'V' 2
category: Passing
- This is a simple 3 v 2.
- The three attackers have to get past the two defenders without being touched, that's it.
- The defend...
3 Touch Kick
category: Warm-Up
Split your players into two teams, giving one group of players a set of coloured bibs to set them apart, and quickly tell your players the followin...
A Cheeky Little Number
category: Passing
Give each training area one ball and tell the players the following......
- Let's just get the ball moving down the line. Give the playe...
A Cheeky Little Number
category: Sevens
Give each training area one ball and tell the players the following......
- Let's just get the ball moving down the line. Give the playe...
Agility Slalom - Race
category: Agility-Running-Skills
Start with 2 players on the centre cone, each with a ball, and facing each other.
- On the shout "GO", they both run backwards to the fi...
Ball Tag
category: Warm-Up
Make sure that you have your warm-up area marked out before your players arrive, it's important that you get them working right away.
- ...
Bank Robbers
category: Warm-Up
- Keep your player briefing, brief! Tell the players the following laws for this exercise.....
- Players must start the game ...
Battle Ships
category: Kicking
Fun game to practice passing/kicking accuracy.
Set up a grid with lots of different objects (tackle bags, hit shields, tyres, cones etc) insi...
Bounce And Compete For Ball
category: Ruck
- groups of 4
- sausages
- ball
2 players lie next to the sausages, with a ball wedged between them.
When ...
Box Agility Running
category: Agility-Running-Skills
Players line up in two groups on the first cone. On GO, the first players side step to the second cone, go around it and run backwards to cone thr...
Building The Pass Out Of The Tackle
category: Passing
Tell your players the following......
- One player will be a ball carrier.
- The player directly opposite will make a half tackle...
Bulldog On Knees
category: Tackling
Simple game for teaching tackling when on your knees.
Starting with initially two tacklers and the rest as attackers, players must try to go...
Capture And Escape - Evasion And Tackling Game
category: Match-Related
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/tagg...
Capture And Escape - Evasion And Tackling Game
category: Tackling
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/tagg...
Cat And Mouse
category: Agility-Running-Skills
Players stand back to back and await the coach's call. Whichever colour the coach shouts out are the mice (in the animation the coach shouts 'Blue'...
Clapping Game
category: Passing
Tell your players the following.
- Lets just get the ball moving clockwise for a while, just to get the ball moving through the hands.
Clear Out
category: Ruck-Clear-Out
1 player stands crouched down 1 foot either side of a tackle bag holding a ball at the end of the bag
2 players run around the wide cones to...
Clockwork Passing
category: Catching
- 4 + groups
- Balls
All players have a ball, start by passing the ball once left then twice right, then 3 times l...
Clockwork Passing
category: Handling
- 4 + groups
- Balls
All players have a ball, start by passing the ball once left then twice right, then 3 times l...
Clockwork Passing
category: Warm-Up
- 4 + groups
- Balls
All players have a ball, start by passing the ball once left then twice right, then 3 times l...
Contact Skills Circuit
category: Contact-Skills
- Groups of 2
- Bags.
- Balls
- Contact conditioning
1. Body height clear out work...
Contact Skills Circuit
category: Ruck
- Groups of 2
- Bags.
- Balls
- Contact conditioning
1. Body height clear out work...
Contact Skills Circuit
category: Ruck-Clear-Out
- Groups of 2
- Bags.
- Balls
- Contact conditioning
1. Body height clear out work...
Continuous Passing Off The Floor 2
category: Passing
Set up a rectangle of cones (10x5) with two gates of cones of a different colour 2m in front of cones on opposite sides of the rectangle (See diagr...
Continuous Passing Square 1
category: Passing
Set up 4 cones in a square, and get the players to form equal lines behind each cone.
The ball starts with a player on one cone who runs towa...
Continuous Passing Square 2
category: Passing
Set up a square of cones, and get the players to form equal lines behind each cone.
The ball starts in the hands of a player behind cone 1, w...
Crash Through 2 Tackle Bags
category: Tackling
Basic but good warm up drill for matches.
4 cones set up a grid of about 5-10m by 5-10m. 2 defenders with tackle shields start in the centre...
Cross Over Running
category: Agility-Running-Skills
5 x 5m grid, size can vary according to ability.
Player at the front of each queue starts with a ball, runs diagonally across square and gives ...
Defender - Round And Realign
category: Passing
Tell your players the following......
- There will be one ball to each group, any player can be the ball carrier.
- Each group wi...
Depth, Fitness, Warming Up
category: Warm-Up
This exercise is all about getting deep lines of support, speed onto the ball, warming up the entire body, and getting fit for rugby - in this one ...
Diamond Geezer
category: Agility-Running-Skills
In fours players are moving up a channel. The support runner (blue player in the animation) calls themselves into the line, receives a pass, offloa...
Diamond Geezer
category: Warm-Up
In fours players are moving up a channel. The support runner (blue player in the animation) calls themselves into the line, receives a pass, offloa...
Double Tackle Technique
category: Tackling
- Groups of 6.
- Tackle Suits.
- Ball
1. 1 v 2 - Shoulders on
1 attacker must run in ...
Fan Out And Pass
category: Passing
Keep your player briefing, brief! You may decide to have a demonstration grid.
- On your call, all players fan out to receive a pass.
Fast And Pressured
category: Passing
Tell your players the following......
- There will be one runner.
- 1 player, static, on each cone. 4 players on the cones in tot...
Fast And Pressured
category: Sevens
Tell your players the following......
- There will be one runner.
- 1 player, static, on each cone. 4 players on the cones in tot...
Footspeed
category: Sevens
Tell your players the following......
- One group of 3 will be on the bottom right cones, the attack - they should have a ball each.
Fun Catching Reaction Game
category: Passing
- This is a simple passing exercise that can be used as a warm up to improve players reaction time and catching skills
- 6 players and 1 c...
Grid Island
category: Practices-for-Juniors
Fun game to practice passes/kicks not being intercepted.
Divide players into two equal teams and set up two grids (one small and one big - se...
Grip Game For Offloads
category: Off-Loads
- This is a fun warm up game for the whole team to be involved in
- Players are separated into two teams, one team wearing bibs
- Ev...
Ground Work Conditioning -Jackal
category: Contact-Skills
- Bag
- Ball
Player lies oppsite a tackle bag. and fires from hips to get in the jackal postion.
Keep ...
Ground Work Conditioning -Jackal
category: Ruck
- Bag
- Ball
Player lies oppsite a tackle bag. and fires from hips to get in the jackal postion.
Keep ...
Ground Work Conditioning -Jackal
category: Ruck-Clear-Out
- Bag
- Ball
Player lies oppsite a tackle bag. and fires from hips to get in the jackal postion.
Keep ...
Handling Warm Up Drill
category: Handling
1) Run outside cone with ball (either side) and on to other group.
2) First three people in each group with a ball - six people on the move....
Hands Up / Hands Down
category: Passing
- Lets just get the ball moving clockwise for a while, just to get the ball moving through the hands.
- After a minute or two, lets swit...
Heads Up Passing
category: Passing
Tell the players the following:
- Lets just get the ball moving down the line. Give the player at the start of one of the lines a b...
Into Contact And Give The Ball Conditioning
category: Contact-Skills
circle of players 2 players in the middle one of the player with a ball.
The ball carrier has to run into contact with one of the outside pl...
Into Contact And Give The Ball Conditioning
category: Warm-Up
circle of players 2 players in the middle one of the player with a ball.
The ball carrier has to run into contact with one of the outside pl...
Introduction To Defensive Systems
category: Defensive-Patterns
- Groups of 10+
- 3 Bags
- balls
- Cones
1. With bags
3 Attckers with b...
Introduction To Defensive Systems
category: Tackling
- Groups of 10+
- 3 Bags
- balls
- Cones
1. With bags
3 Attckers with b...
Kamikaze Passing
category: Passing
Passing drill under pressure.
Set up a grid roughly 20m x 15m, with lines of 4 players facing each other across the grid. Each line of 4 need...
Kick And Catch To Self
category: Practices-for-Juniors
1 player with a ball.
Player kicks the ball in the air and catches.
Continue working the drill for 2 minutes.
Player to count ...
Kicking Out Of Hands
category: Practices-for-Juniors
1 player with a ball. Ball to be held correctly with the end of the ball pointing in the direction it is to be kicked. Keep eyes on the ball, head dow...
King Pin
category: Kicking
One player from each team goes to the oppositions end and starts in the end zone.
The aim of the ga...
L-Shaped Passing
category: Passing
Lets get the ball and the players moving with lateral passing through the hands. Each training area only needs one ball, and that ball should start...
L-Shaped Passing
category: Sevens
Lets get the ball and the players moving with lateral passing through the hands. Each training area only needs one ball, and that ball should start...
Ladder Pass
category: Warm-Up
- Have four players stand at the four cones, the other players, in their own running groups of four should, be behind them - ready to go when t...
Lateral - Switch
category: Passing
Tell your players the following.....
- Players in pairs with a ball between them.
- The player on the left starts with the ball a...
Lateral - Switch
category: Passing
- Using cones, mark out a training area 15 meters x 10 meters.
- Split your players into groups of 2.
- Allocate 4 groups of 2 to...
Left Out
category: Warm-Up
- The players behind start running around the circle in a clockwise direction.
- When the coach shouts ATTACK, each player must get back...
Lineout: Lift+Balance
category: Lineout
- Groups of 3
-Players take turn in lifiting eachother using the correct lineout technique.
- Once in the air play...
Listen To The Call - 2 Vs 1
category: Decision-making
4 Cones and 1 Ball inside a 10m x 10m Grid.
Number the players.
The coach shouts out a number and that player is the defender, who ha...
Living On The Edge
category: Warm-Up
- Split the players into two teams, giving each team their own set of bibs. Two different colours that clearly define the teams.
- Keep ...
Maul Touch
category: Warm-Up
- Be brief when telling the players the laws of this game, it's important to get them moving quickly.
- This is not a...
Miss Me Baby, One More Time!
category: Passing
- We will begin with laterial passing down the line, just to get going.
- On your call we will start to miss the player in the middle, a...
Numbered Mismatch
category: Sevens
Tell your players the following....
- They each have a number, 1, 2, and 3.
- They will jog up and down the grid, until the coach...
Off-Loading Pass
category: Passing
Tell your players the following......
- There will be two static players, passers, on the mid sections cones. One on each side. One of w...
Open Channel
category: Passing
- Give each training area one ball and tell the players the following......
- Lets just get the ball moving down the line. Gi...
Pass And Support
category: Passing
Give each training area one ball and tell the players the following......
- Lets just get the ball moving down the line. Give the player...
Pass And Support
category: Sevens
Give each training area one ball and tell the players the following......
- Lets just get the ball moving down the line. Give the player...
Pass Left And Right From Ground
category: Passing
Great for scrum halves to practice placement of foot and following through with hands.
2 balls, 3 support players, 1 passer
Ted on th...
Pass To Hip Right And Left Side
category: Passing
Good for warm ups and co-ordination, getting used to keeping your body straight on and handling the ball and practicing using your arms to pass the...
Pass Within A Channel
category: Passing
Tell the players the following.....
- This is simple, just attack from the bottom and top of the grid at pace.
- There can be two...
Passing Ballrush
category: Tag-Rugby
This game is designed to introduce passing at moving targets on the run.
- Set up a field approximately 15m long x 10m wide. (relative t...
Passing Box
category: Passing
Tell your players the following.......
- There should be one group of 4 players between each cone on the four sides of the grid.
Passing Central
category: Passing
- Keep your player briefing, brief - and get the players moving as quickly as you can. You may consider having a demo group.
- On your g...
Passing Circle
category: Passing
- Tell your players the following.....
- There will be 4 players on the outside of the circle, starting at 12, 3, 6, and 9 o'...
Passing Compass
category: Warm-Up
- Have a quick demo using one group - keep your player briefing, brief.
- Each pair face one another and stand side by side, about 1 met...
Passing Left And Right From Feed
category: Passing
This is to practice handling and passing the ball to a direct target. It is good for awareness and communication between the three support players....
Pick And Place
category: Ball-Presentation
Players form a single file, pick up a ball, run a few meters and then places the ball down before heading towards the next ball.
The balls a...
Ping Pong
category: Warm-Up
Make sure that your players are holding their tackle shields correctly!
- Have your players work in groups of 10, adjust depending on yo...
Positioning, Passing And Supporting During Turnovers
category: Agility-Running-Skills
5 players in a group line up within touching distance of one another, and stand facing the coach who has a ball in his hand.
The coach then ...
Positioning, Passing And Supporting During Turnovers
category: Passing
5 players in a group line up within touching distance of one another, and stand facing the coach who has a ball in his hand.
The coach then ...
Pre-Contact Circuit
category: Contact-Skills
- Brief your players, but keep it brief!
- In each grid there will not be two channels. In each of the two channels there are two player...
Pre-Contact Circuit
category: Warm-Up
- Brief your players, but keep it brief!
- In each grid there will not be two channels. In each of the two channels there are two player...
Presenting The Ball
category: Ball-Presentation
Good for younger rugby players to learn how to go into contact and set up the ball at pace, you can use it as a competition between the team with a...
Presenting The Ball
category: Tackling
Good for younger rugby players to learn how to go into contact and set up the ball at pace, you can use it as a competition between the team with a...
Presenting The Ball Using Tackle Bags
category: Ball-Presentation
Good for younger rugby players to learn how to go into contact and set up the ball at pace, you can use it as a competition between the team with a...
Pressure Ball
category: Warm-Up
Make sure your warm-up area is marked out before the players arrive.
- Depending on the number of players you have at training, mark out...
Pressure Cooker
category: Passing
- 4 players stand on the middle cones in the grid, avoiding the corner cones. The 2 players at the top and the bottom of the grid will have a b...
Pull Back Passing
category: Passing
Passing in groups of 4.
Have two lines set up parallel about 3-5m apart: in this case Yellow and Orange.
Have players stand on yellow (...
Quick Ball From Slow Ball
category: Contact-Skills
- Bags
- Balls
2 attackers line up opposite 2 defenders with bosh bags.
The coach delivers a ball into the a...
Quick Ball From Slow Ball
category: Contact-Skills
- Bags
- Balls
2 attackers line up opposite 2 defenders with bosh bags.
The coach delivers a ball into the a...
Quick Ball From Slow Ball
category: Match-Related
- Bags
- Balls
2 attackers line up opposite 2 defenders with bosh bags.
The coach delivers a ball into the a...
Quick Passing To Space
category: Passing
Give each training area one ball and tell the players the following......
- One of the attacking lines takes the ball.
- They sim...
Quick Passing To Space
category: Sevens
Give each training area one ball and tell the players the following......
- One of the attacking lines takes the ball.
- They sim...
Rapid Rucking
category: Ruck
In this exercise position 3 pad holding units, or 1 or 2 players, five meters in front of 3 rucking units, 1 unit facing each pad. Two players on e...
Relay Passing Race
category: Warm-Up
- With each new instruction to players you'll be having a race, lets see which group is the fastest - no cheating!
- Don't spend too muc...
Right To Left With A Switch
category: Passing
Players in pairs with a ball between them.
The player on the right starts with the ball and passes the ball to the player to the left. The ...
Rip And Ruck
category: Maul
Round And Realign
category: Passing
- Tell your players the following......
- There will be one ball to each group, any player can be the ball carrier.
- ...
Round The Back
category: Practices-for-Juniors
3 players line up in a coned area each with a ball.
They run out in a straight line to the opposite end of the area, moving the ball around ...
Round The World
category: Agility-Running-Skills
- Tell your players the following.....
- The first player picks the ball up at the cone passes the ball to the next player, t...
Round The World
category: Passing
- Tell your players the following.....
- The first player picks the ball up at the cone passes the ball to the next player, t...
Ruck Clear Out Between Two Tackle Bags
category: Ruck-Clear-Out
2 people are on the tackle shields or 2 on each side about 5 metres apart facing each other, there is a ball carrier standing in the middle of the ...
Ruck Clear Out Between Two Tackle Bags
category: Tackling
2 people are on the tackle shields or 2 on each side about 5 metres apart facing each other, there is a ball carrier standing in the middle of the ...
Ruck Clearing Exercises
category: Ruck-Clear-Out
- Progressive exercises to improve clearing out at the ruck
- Lay a tackle tube on the floor with another tube on top, angled into the air...
Rugby Cricket Fielding
category: Passing
Coach stands in the middle of a semi circle of 6-10 players, holding a ball.
One player throws a ball at the coach, who bats it away using th...
Rugby Netball
category: Warm-Up
Break your players into two teams.
- One team goes to attack, and one to defence.
- There is no kicking in this game.
- No...
Run And Touchdown
category: Practices-for-Juniors
6 players line up in a coned area each with a ball.
Players run out to score a try at the opposite end, and then return with the ball and pa...
Running Warm Up
category: Warm-Up
Tell players the following....
- Each Player will work individually, unless told otherwise.
- Players can run in any direction: m...
Sausage Wrestle And Jackal
category: Contact-Skills
- Groups of 3
- Sausage
- Ball
1 player lines up opposite a standing sausage, wrestles it to the floor, land...
Sausage Wrestle And Jackal
category: Ruck
- Groups of 3
- Sausage
- Ball
1 player lines up opposite a standing sausage, wrestles it to the floor, land...
Sausage Wrestle And Jackal
category: Ruck-Clear-Out
- Groups of 3
- Sausage
- Ball
1 player lines up opposite a standing sausage, wrestles it to the floor, land...
Serious Fun
category: Passing
- Tell your players the following, keeping your player briefing, brief! It's vital to get the players moving as quickly as possible.
Short Passing
category: Passing
- Give each training area one ball to start with and tell the players the following......
- Lets just get the ball moving dow...
Shoulder Flex With Ball
category: Agility-Running-Skills
Involve a ball in your warm-up.
Get players to pass the ball around their head to flex the neck and shoulders.
Shoulder Flex With Ball
category: Warm-Up
Involve a ball in your warm-up.
Get players to pass the ball around their head to flex the neck and shoulders.
Spin Passing
category: Passing
- Give each training area one ball to start with and tell the players the following......
- Lets just get the ball moving dow...
Static Tackling On Knees.
category: Contact-Skills
Static Tackling On Knees.
category: Tackling
Stuck In The Mud - Rugby Style
category: Warm-Up
The 'Hunters' run after the 'Runners', trying to touch them with the rugby ball. If a 'Runner' is touched, then they are 'Stuck in the mud!' and ca...
Stuck In The Mud
category: Practices-for-Juniors
Within a set playing area split your players into two groups - catchers and runners.
It's the catcher's job to tag as many runners as possib...
Stuck In The Mud
category: Warm-Up
- Groups of 6+
- Balls
- Bibs
- Cones
One player with a ball must run around trying to tou...
Tackle And Offload
category: Practices-for-Juniors
Three players start off in a coned area.
Player 1 with a ball jogs in a straight line.
Player two runs in from ...
Tackle From Waist
category: Practices-for-Juniors
Two players start off in a coned area.
Player 1 with a ball jogs in a straight line.
Player two runs in from the side to tackle playe...
Tackle, Support, Hands
category: Handling
Description
- 3 Sausages
- Ball
- Players work in 4s.
- A ball is balance donator of the sau...
Tackle, Support, Hands
category: Tackling
Description
- 3 Sausages
- Ball
- Players work in 4s.
- A ball is balance donator of the sau...
Taking The Ball Into Contact And Support Play
category: Practices-for-Juniors
Drill to improve players taking the ball into contact and ruck clear out.
Set up a square roughly 5m x 5m. Get two lines of players behind tw...
Team - Stuck In The Mud
category: Warm-Up
- Groups of 10+
- Balls
- Bibs
- Cones
4 player with a 1 ball must run around trying to to...
Team Kicking Game
category: Kicking
Attacking team starts with a ball.
Aim of the game is for the attac...
The Next Pass
category: Passing
- Keep your player briefing, brief! Tell the players the following or have a demonstration group.....
- We have 8 static pass...
They Just Keep Coming
category: Passing
- We have 8 static passers and two runners.
- There should be a static passer on each cone, eight in total.
- The 9th player will...
They Just Keep Coming
category: Sevens
- We have 8 static passers and two runners.
- There should be a static passer on each cone, eight in total.
- The 9th player will...
Touchdown Relay
category: Practices-for-Juniors
5 players all with a ball line up along a coned area.
They run out and touch the ball down halfway, leaving the ball on the ground.
T...
Tri-Attack
category: Passing
- Tell your players the following......
- The first line of attackers move forward, passing the ball down the line.
- ...
Turnover Ball - Creating Depth And Getting Width
category: Passing
5 players in a group, line up within touching distance of one another, facing the coach who has a ball in his hand.
The coach then calls &quo...
Wave After Wave
category: Passing
- Keep your player briefing, brief! Tell the players the following or have a demonstration group.....
- We have 1 scrum half,...
Whistle Passing Warm Up Game
category: Warm-Up
2 players work together and stand opposite one another facing each other.
They pass a ball between them as they stand about 3m apart
...
Wide Passing Lines
category: Sevens
- The two feeders should be 15 meters apart and will........
- Feed the left most attacking unit with a ball, they will move ...
Winger'S Drill 2
category: Agility-Running-Skills
Gradually accelerate towards the first cone.
As the player receives the pass they should run around the cone and accelerate to the left.
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Sevens Rugby: Attacking the Space - Pass, Follow and Support
Get your players to use the width of the pitch and play intelligently, offering wide support options in this sevens rugby session.
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Tag Team
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Egg Race
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B-Balling Skills
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TI/Motricité - Course Arrière/Passage au Sol/Passe Piston
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Body Position with Pick and Go
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