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Practices for Juniors

The junior videos and drills are designed to introduce and teach youth players to the correct techniques and skills they will in rugby, in a safe and ...

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...

Alignment - Running As A Group

category: Agility-Running-Skills

Working in groups of up to 4, players spaced approximately 4-5 metres apart.

Players jog to the 1st cone then jog backwards to the start line...

Catching And Kicking Tennis

category: Kicking

Drill to practice kicking accuracy and contesting the ball in the air.

Split the players into two even teams with different coloured bibs (re...

Contest Line Outs

category: Lineout

One player throws the ball in to 5 players standing side by side. One player to stand in the scrum half position so as to be ready to receive a pas...

Dizzy

category: Passing

1. There will be one ball carrier at any one time.
2. They will run around the circle, passing the ball.
3. The ball must be handled...

Drift, Cover Or Blitz Touch

category: Match-Related

During a game of touch in a grid sized 30 x 30 metres the coach can choose to call blitz, drift or cover at any breakdow...

Floor/ Seal/ Clear/ Pick

category: Ball-Presentation

In groups of 4 inside the grid with 1 ball per group.

Players should pass the ball around the group with small pops.

On the coach's w...

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...

Introduction To Ruck

category: Ruck

In small teams, play a modified game where if the ball carrier is touched on the shorts with both hands of a defender, the ball carrier must go to ...

Jogging Tackle

category: Tackling

The player with the ball jogs in a straight line with the tackler coming in form the side to tackle them.

Kicking Square

category: Kicking

Drill to practice short kicks to an attacking player.

Set up a square roughly 10m x 10m, with an even number of players behind each cone (see...

L With Defenders

category: Passing

• Keep your player briefing, brief! It's important to get your players working as quickly as possible.
• Lets get the ball and the player...

Lateral - Switch

category: Passing

Tell your players the following.....

1. Players in pairs with a ball between them.
2. The player on the left starts with the ball a...

Lifting Pods

category: Match-Related

• The aim of the exercise is to develop unit work, communication and good Technique for receiving Kick offs.

Lineout Game

category: Lineout

The coach calls out the number of people that required in the lineout, together with a team name to. The hooker throws the ball in for both teams t...

M1, Inside Pass/Pop, Back

category: Passing

Keep your player briefing, brief! It's important to get your players working as quickly as possible.

• Lets get the ball and the players...

Miss Me Baby, One More Time!

category: Passing

1. We will begin with laterial passing down the line, just to get going.
2. On your call we will start to miss the player in the middle, a...

Miss Pass (M1)

category: Passing

Keep your player briefing, brief! It's important to get your players working as quickly as possible.

• Lets get the ball and the players...

Number Cruncher

category: Passing

• Keep your player briefing, brief! If necessary you might considering having one group quickly demonstrate the exercise to the other players.<...

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...

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 ...

Put In And Strike

category: Contact-Skills

Adding the 'put in' and 'strike' to the 3 person front row.

Quick Hands

category: Passing

• Tell your players the following.....
• The first player runs out with the ball to the first set of cones and passes the ball to the se...

Quick Positioning, Passing And Support

category: Agility-Running-Skills

4 players start together on their stomachs next to each other.

1. As the coach calls a colour cone, they move into position quickly.
...

Quick Positioning, Passing And Support

category: Passing

4 players start together on their stomachs next to each other.

1. As the coach calls a colour cone, they move into position quickly.
...

Scrummage Terminology.

category: Contact-Skills

Key factors:

Shoulders above hips.

Keep square

Chin off chest

Signalling For The Put In.

category: Contact-Skills

Hooker lets the scrum half know that he is ready for the ball by tapping his left hand on the props back.

Scrum half then puts the ball int...

Square - Improve Reactions

category: Handling

Players stand on a blue cone. On Go, the player passes the ball and sprints out to the nearest cone in the middle then back steps back to the next ...

Striking The Ball (Triangle).

category: Scrum

Introducing more specific detail in striking for the ball.

Hooker to move their right leg in a triangle motion when striking for the ball.

Striking The Ball

category: Scrum

Introducing the skill of 'striking' for the ball.

Hooker against a tackle pad, with the scrum half punting in the ball from the left hand si...

Tackling On Knees (With Direction).

category: Tackling

Player with ball walking on knees and the tackler coming in form the side.

Shows correct way of the player to present the ball.

Play...

Three Blind Mice - Tag Warm-Up

category: Warm-Up

• Tell the players that one group is the Mice and that mice have tails, their tags. The other group is not happy with the Mice, they are the Fa...

Tri-Attack

category: Passing

• Tell your players the following......

1. The first line of attackers move forward, passing the ball down the line.
2. ...

Vary The Distance

category: Passing

In groups of 4 - 1 ball straight hands across. on the other side pass the ball to the next group.

Start with 2 close passes and on pass 3 an...

Walking Side Tackle.

category: Tackling

Player with ball walking in a straight direction, with the tackler walking in from the side.

Introducing a bit of pace into the ta...

Wave After Wave

category: Warm-Up

• The front line of players run towards the other side of the grid while passing the ball down the line. When the last player in the line recei...

Zig Zag Relay

category: Passing

Tell the players to do the following......

1. The player with the ball passes to the next player and follows the direction of the ball.

Rugby for beginners (english)

more work of the makers of RUGBY for BEGINNERS: www.reterastudios.nl ) The wonderful game of rugby has many complex laws. If you want to watch a game ...

Rugby rules for beginners

A video to help people who want to learn about rugby, especially those used to watching American Football. Please feel free to ask any questions you h...

New zeland & tonga - rugby war dance

New Zeland & Tonga rugby war dance. Rwc 2011.

Tackling for 10 & 11's

U9s swarming around the ball

U9 Positional Play Advice

New Womens Team First Practice Drills

How can I overcome my son's fear of tackling?

Cool Down Fun for Under 9's

Warm up to improve agility, balance and coordination?

Advice on how to play the game safely?

Using pads & contact shields - good or bad?

First time coaching the U13s next season - any tips greatly appreciated!

Confidence in Contact: part 2

Continue to improve your player's confidence when using contact, with the second of our Confidence in Contact sessions

Introduction to Handling and Unit Plays

Ensure your team are on track and work on Option Plays and Basic Skills

Dynamic Passing and Movement

Improve your player's confidence in a pressure-free environment, with this passing and moving session!

6 Ways to Improve Evasion and Footwork Skills

Develop a team of untouchables! Improve your players ability to swerve and sidestep past opponents with this evasion and agility footwork skills plan

Contact Skills in the Tackle

Install confidence and tackle toughness into your players with this tackling from the front, side and back session!

2v1 Attacking Skills Session

Improve your players' 2v1 confidence and introduce them to the dummy pass, support running and offloading in this attacking session!

Backline Scanning - Reacting to the unknown!

Don't let your team succumb to static rugby - instead teach them to look up and play against what's in front of them

Scrum / Lineouts for beginners

Keep your players safe! Review the basics, coach the key points of these two important skills and give players plenty of time to learn and improve

Continuity Play - Passing your way out of the tackle

Help your side avoid the breakdown by focusing on their continuity skills - keeping the ball moving and starting to work on contact!

Development of Rucking

Use this session to introduce juniors to the ruck and improve older players' rucking ability - Starting slowly and use the progressions to increase th...

Relay

Players are split up into relay teams of 4.Begin by conducting relays where the children walk, then jog, then skip with no ball. Introduce Ball&n...

Basic Handling

The player on either end of the grid starts with the ballHe or She will run out and pass to the left or right depending on which end started atThe bal...

Tema 2 - Introducere pasa si receptia balonului

Joc de miscare - MUTA GRAMADA (varianta 1); 2 echipe a cate 5 elevi dispusi la interval de 1 m fiecare, la semnal trebuie sa mute baloanele un spatiul...

Tema 1 - Initiere pasa si receptia balonului

3 siruri a 3 elevi dispuse in triunghi. Pasa si receptia balonului cu deplasare la coada sirului la care a pasat.Crestere distanta de pasare. Schimbar...

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Tackling Safely and perfecting tackle technique.Start bt splitting the group up into 3sall players on knees with tackler in middle. tackler to concent...

two man passing

The player that will run through the tunnel should run with his hands out and ready making a target for the players passing to him. The ball should be...

Cone drill warm-up

Use this drill to increase HR whilst introducing basic movement patterns associated with sport. (This will make better use of time than 5 minutes of j...

Simple Handling Drill

Player 1 runs out with ball. Player 2 shouts for ball and receives pass. Ball is passed along the line.If is going well then introduce an A ball- Swit...

Catch/pass/running lines

Magic numbers grid: quick hands (123)switch ball (213)loop (1213)introduce defenders and repeat

4 x 4

Start with 2 players 3m opposite and attacker take a side.defender looks to plant outside close to body line and tap back of attackers outside knee.pr...