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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

Tackle Box

category: Sevens

Rugby Tackle Box 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 be...

Tackle Fitness

category: Sevens

Rugby Tackle Fitness Sevens The runner/tackler starts 10 meters back, runs forward and places the ball down just before the bag, and in the same moti...

Tackle Challenge

category: Sevens

Rugby Tackle Challenge Sevens The exercise stand clockwise, with the first player going from the bottom left cone. The defender must tackle that play...

1V1 Clap Tackle - Warm Up

category: Tackling

Coaching points · Keep on toes. · Small steps. · Boxer stance. · Foot in close as possible to Attacker. · Drive not dive - stay close to attacke...

Channel Ball

category: Tackling

Rugby Channel Ball Tackling This game is designed to teach the players about retiring to an onside position when a tackle is made. Set-up a field app...

1V1 Tackle Grid

category: Tackling

Rugby 1v1 Tackle Grid Tackling Small playing area, for 1 v 1 tackling. Players line up in two lines adjacent to the coned area. Coach shouts go and t...

5 Vs 5 Touch Rugby

category: Match-Related

Touch Rugby in teams of 5

3 Touches and change possession.

When a player with the ball is touched, tackler stays in passive contact...

Catching A High Ball

category: Catching

Call for the ball!

Head and eyes up looking at the ball, get in line with the ball.

Quickly move to the ball's 'drop zone'

Adj...

Drift Defence

category: Defensive-Patterns

4 Tackle Bags.

10 Cones and 1 Ball.

10m x 30m.

The first player in the line begins with the ball. As he approaches the ...

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 ...

Mini Game - Skills Game

category: Handling

In this game players try to keep possession and carry the ball over their opponent's line to score a try.

Mini Game - Skills Game

category: Match-Related

In this game players try to keep possession and carry the ball over their opponent's line to score a try.

Tackle

category: Tackling

Approach the tackle at paceMove to good low positionHead up, chin off chest, tighten shoulders Arms out wide, ready for big hit

Tackle

category: Tackling

Start with this simple tackling drill with no resistance to the tackle to get your players warmed up and used to contact.

Tackle

category: Tackling

Good low position Head up, chin off chest, tighten shoulders Shoulder to shorts Big hit and grasp around legs with both arms ready to drive with legs

Touch Ruck Game

category: Ruck

Groups of 10

5 v 5 match, after each touch the touch player must simulate a ruck by hitting the floor.

Allow 1 player to clear def...

Touch Rugby With Mini-Maul

category: Match-Related

Touch rugby in teams of 5. Once a team has been touched three times change possession.

When a player is touched, the tackler stays in passiv...

Confidence in Contact: part 2

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

Confidence in Contact: part 1

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

Improving your Passing Skills

Get your players passing accurately and with variety in this session

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 ...

Developing reactions and decision making skills to dominate support play

A player needs to make hundreds of decisions on the pitch. Get them making the right ones when in attack to utilise the support to sustain attacking p...

Developing young players confidence in tackling and contact

After building up some preseason contact resilience, it?s time to refine players tackling techniques to build their confidence as players go into cont...

Developing the Maul

Work on your team's maul technique with this session, improving their current ability to create, secure and defend the maul

Pre-season Contact Build-Up

After a long off season period it's important to carefully ease your players back into contact - use this session to get your players tackling again i...

Tackling Success - 1 to 1 and Double Tackling

Focus on technique to ensure your players tackle safely and powerfully, as well as looking at the progression from a 1-to-1 'fit' tackle to a positive...

Ruck to Success: Improving speed at the breakdown

Improve your players' speed and drive at the breakdown to help them win the contest with this powerful ruck skills session

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

Tackling progression plan to improve confidence in tackles

Getting a straight defensive line and speed

Reduce Numbers in rucks

Tips on breaking through a defence line?

Can you set up a maul directly from the penalty?

Is there a U7s rugby union coaching plan for week by week

Defence, who must tackle a player cutting in?

attaxing and defence drills that helped you

U8s standing offside

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Tackle, fall, pop-upSupport play

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

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...

Hook & Grab

In pairs players face each other on their feet, 1 step appart. On coaches call players tackle with a Hook first then Grab to get hold of player finis...

Tackle Practice

Ensure players remain on knees to reduce impactGood grip round attacker (Ring of Steel)Hitting with the shoulderPostion head to Correct side (Cheek to...

Seek gab and offload

'Red' recieves ball and sidesteps into gab.when dragged both tacklers 'Red' offloads to 'Yellow' which is running in support.- Pick correctly body sid...

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- 20m Jog with 70% Sprint Return x 3 Sets (2 Minutes)- Dynamic Stretches (6 Min)- Tackle Back Ruck

Unit Skills

1. Ruck Clean Out for Ball Retention:*3 Players to hit tackle shield.*Scrumhalf passes to 2nd pod, hit group 2 tackle shields.