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Lineout Drills

A lineout is used to restart play, when the ball has left the field of play. Unless your team has "kicked for touch" when awarded a penalty the "throw...

Scrum Drills

A scrum involves eight players from each side locking heads with the opposition. It is a way of restarting play after the ball has gone out to touch, ...

Tackling Drills

All players need to be able to tackle. Tackling is how a player physically stops an opponent from moving forward with the ball. It's a vital aspect of...

Agility & Running Skills Drills

Agility is how quickly your players can move while staying balanced and flexible. Running to evade the tackle, move into space for a pass and change d...

Ball Presentation Drills

Ball presentation is how the ball-carrier makes the ball available to a teammate after they have been tackled. The ball presentation videos and drills...

Off Loads Drills

An off load is when a tackled player passes the ball to a teammate before the tackle is completed. Use the 2v1 and tackle bag off load drills and vide...

Tackle Box

category: Sevens

The exercise is simple, the attacker has 2 minutes to score as many tries as they can. They do this by attacking the space between 2 sets of cones, b...

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 li...

Compete

category: Sevens

Tell your players the following..... The players on the bags will squeeze the bags together to make removal of the ball hard but not impossible. The ...

Tackle And Clear Out

category: Ruck-Clear-Out

3 players (one in tackle suit, one with ball) and one tackle bag.Player in tackle suit crouches or kneels next to tackle bag. Suited player tackles ba...

Compete

category: Sevens

Tell your players the following..... The players on the bags will squeeze the bags together to make removal of the ball hard but not impossible. The ...

Alcatraz: Jail Break

category: Warm-Up

This is a great warm-up for defensive and evasion sessions, or it might even be a warm-up that helps you reinforce coaching points made during a previ...

Running Side Tackle

category: Tackling

Starting with their backs to one another, two players stand 5 metres apart and run off in opposite directions along one side of the 20 metre grid. At ...

Crouch Tackle

category: Tackling

Players stand 5 metres apart, only the attacking player moves in this drill, the tackler remains still as their partner approaches. As the player get...

[tackle these] super rugby special

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Powerade better your best - 'tackle & poach' rugby training drill

Getting into a strong position quickly to compete for the ball.

Great choke tackle by munster - munster rugby v ospreys 2nd nov 2013

Munster's defence win a turnover after a great choke tackle in the Munster v Ospreys rugby match in the RaboDirect PRO12 on Saturday 2nd November 2013...

Rugby union tackle laws - aru smartrugby

A presentation of the Rugby Union Tackle Laws. It covers: 1) The definition of a tackler 2) The requirements of the tackler 3) The requirements of the...

Huge hits by women's eagles rugby player meya bizer

USA Eagle and Penn State junior Meya Bizer dominated the competition at the 2014 Emirates Airline USA Rugby College National Championship. Read more a...

Pitch demo: jacques burger tackling masterclass | rugby tonight

Jacques Burger shows us what techniques made him a premiership rugby record breaking tackler. Subscribe: ... Twitter: ...

Rugby - laws of the tackle - part 1

The Laws of the Tackle as per the IRB training DVD.

Andy - big rugby tackle

RFU U17's National Plate Semi - Final, 2006. Got me tackle of the season...20 secs in. watch a couple of time cus dnt luk much at first. We went on to...

James ackerman dies after tackle injury - rugby player james ackerman dead - video

Young rugby league player tragically dies after being critically injured in a tackle during Queensland Cup match A young football player who was criti...

Playrugby camp - tackle bag race

Some footage from our PlayRugby (6-11 yr olds) rugby holiday camps. We have mixed the age groups and had a competition to see who can tackle the tackl...

Albanians and serbians tackle each other on the rugby pitch

In Kosovska Mitrovica, a city in Kosovo that has come to symbolise the ethnic split, young people from both sides of the divide are battling it out on...

Rob mccusker try saving tackle newport gwent dragons v scarlets 20th sept 2013

Scarlets captain Rob McCusker does very well to get across to stop a try with a tackle into touch at the corner in the Newport Gwent Dragons v Scarlet...

Can I and should I coach basic tackle skills to U8s?

Jackal at the Tackle - Technique and Confidence Session

Can your players tackle and jackal? Use this session to introduce your players to the jackal and improve their technique in 1v1 and game situations