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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...

Backs Moves Drills

There are seven backs in a team, with the rugby position numbers 9-15. As the name suggests they are positioned behind the forwards, and include the S...

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...

Contact Skills Drills

A major part of rugby involves two or more players making physical contact with each other. Contact normally takes place during a tackle, lineout, scr...

Decision making Drills

Decision making determines what pass, run or tackle your player makes on the field. Making the right decision can be the difference between a try bein...

Defensive Patterns Drills

Defensive patterns are the positions your players take up when stopping opposition attacks. By developing your players knowledge of defensive pattern...

Kicking Drills

Use the kicking drills and videos below to develop your players' accuracy, technique, tactical awareness and skills so they know the right kick to use...

Match Related Drills

The fun and challenging rugby drills and games in this category below recreate realistic attacking and defending scenarios, similar to those your play...

Maul Drills

A maul is similar to a ruck but occurs when the ball is held up off the floor (in a player's hand). The maul drills, videos and mini games below will ...

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...

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 ...

Ruck Drills

A ruck occurs when the ball carrier is tackled and players from each side make contact over the ball which is on the ground (it differs from a maul wh...

Ruck Clear Out Drills

A ruck clear out involves players removing their opposition from the ruck to allow a quick pass to be made and avoid turnovers. The ruck and clear out...

Sevens Drills

The Sevens drills below to sharpen your players' rugby skills such as quick hands, speed evasion and passing under pressure before moving on to develo...

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...

Tag Rugby Drills

Use the tag rugby drills and games (also referred to as touch rugby) to boost your junior players' passing, off-loading, and decision making ability. ...

zTackling Drills

1St Man At The Ruck

category: Contact-Skills

Rugby 1st man at the ruck Contact Skills Ball. Groups of 3+ 2 attackers line up infront of a defender. The 1st attackers takes the ball into contact ...

1St Man At The Ruck

category: Ruck

Rugby 1st man at the ruck Ruck Ball. Groups of 3+ 2 attackers line up infront of a defender. The 1st attackers takes the ball into contact The defend...

Rugby Pinball

category: Tackling

Rugby Rugby Pinball Tackling This game is designed to teach the players about body height in tackling and ruck clean out. Set up a field about 15m lo...

Static Tackling On Knees.

category: Tackling

Rugby Static tackling on knees. ... search our library of 1100+ rugby drills; create your own professional coaching plans; or access our tried and te...

1 Vs 1 Tackle Practice

category: Tackling

Rugby League 1 vs 1 Tackle Practice Tackling Close down the space quickly, make yourself big. Keep moving forward with short steps, stay balanced, ta...

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 l...

Bulldog On Knees

category: Tackling

Rugby League Bulldog on knees Tackling Simple game for teaching tackling when on your knees. Starting with initially two tacklers and the rest as att...

Double Trouble

category: Sevens

Tell your players the following.....

1. The first attacking until enters through the top of the first channel, the defender there can the...

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 ...

Loaded Sevens: Touch

category: Sevens

Tell your players the following......

1. The team with 7 players will be in attack for the first half.
2. Normal 7 rules apply.

M1 (13 Missed, 14 Pop Outside To 15)

category: Backs-Moves

1. See the diagram for suggested starting positions.
2. 10 moves forward with the ball, drawing the defence to press.
3. 10 passing ...

React And Defend

category: Defensive-Patterns

Drill to test defenders reactions to situations.

Set up a 15m x 15m grid with 3 defenders (blue) and 4 attackers (red).

All start on th...

Realignment And Passing

category: Match-Related

Out in 4s - simple hands - When players reach the end they should turn left.

Group realigns around the cone and then use simple hands to fin...

Structure Defence

category: Defensive-Patterns

5 attackers - 10 defenders (or 2 to 1 ratio dependent on numbers)

Start slowly with ruck ball

Defenders cannot steal ball

Tackle Technique - Foot Position 1/5

category: Tackling

• Groups of 2
• Tackle bag

An attacker holds a bag 2m away from a defender.

Defender hold hands behind his b...

Technical Work At The Breakdown

category: Ruck-Clear-Out

Players start face down, on the coach's whistle players get to their feet to contest the contact area.

Red player 1 and the blue player shou...

Confidence in Contact: part 1

Help your players get over their fears and watch them gain confidence in contact!

Improving Rucking Technique

React the quicker and get on the front foot in attack with this session, by improving their rucking technique!

The Zones Game

Use this fantastic drill in your next coaching session today and get ready to work your players hard

Handling and Support Play for More Effective Attacks

Burst through defensive lines with this attacking passing and handling plan - designed to sharpen your players' support running in the attack

Improving your Passing Skills

Get your players passing accurately and with variety in this session

Phase Play and Continuity

Continue to build the phases in your play and get your team working as an unit to offer support with this session!

Edge play and Defence Organisation

Get your defence organised with this session, making sure your players are communicating with one another

Developing Handling Skills

Get your players handling skills super sharp so that no loose balls are given up. Gradually build up pressure to test their handling ability when conf...

Defensive Skills: Contest Possession

Pile the pressure on the oppositions attack with this defensive skills session. Get them scanning the attack to put pressure on the ball carrier and a...

Contact: Rucking technical session

Master the ?Smash? and the ?Roll? rucking technique so that when the pressure is on and a clear decision needs to be made, clearing the ruck becomes ...

factors affecting the game plan

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

Attack Platform And Layout

How can improve footwork

men to men defence drill

Improving my 9s attack

Tackling progression plan to improve confidence in tackles

Getting a straight defensive line and speed

Reduce Numbers in rucks

Perfecting attack structure

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Tackle, fall, pop-upSupport play

3 vs 3

De verdedigers lopen op het signaal van de coach om de pionnen heen en stellen zich op 1 lijn op t.h.v. de lijn waar ze startten. De aanvallers starte...

Ruck - Clearing players at Breakdown

(a)Both teams start onTeam w/ ball player straddles tackle bag and defends ballOther player in and clears player out Clear out w/Roll(B)Use tackl...

Front tackle

Tackle Progression

Flair Square

Attackers have 4 try lines to score on. once they have scored on one they cannot score on it again until they have scored on another.

On going 2V1

Defender stays defending until they touch an attacker with the ball or intercepts the ball. defender can only move towards the attackers. Once they ha...

Attacking Channels

Tackle Support

Scrum Half passes to player 1Player 1 goes into contactSupporting Player Latches on and drives forwardBall Carrier Chooses to stay on feet or if momen...

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