Rugby- Touchdowns

DESCRIPTION

SKILL FOCUS: Fundamental movement skills, agility, reaction speed and passing skills. 

EQUIPMENT: Hoops, marker cones for field and team-colored cones, rugby balls.

WHAT TO DO:

Coach:

• Place cones on the middle line to mark the separate playing areas.
• Place then on both sides on the quarter line the other cones to mark the end of the playing area.
• Close the playing areas with cones.
• Place then hoops in side both playing areas in mirror view.
• Inside each hoop must be one rugby ball (use different balls for better skill development). 
• Place for each team a hoop on the 5-meter line as the team point holder hoop. 
• Divide the learners into teams of two learners per team.

Learners:

• One learner will be the runner and the other learner will be the receiver.
• They will switch each time their role of the game.
• On the word go, the runner run to any hoop with a ball in and pass the ball to the receiver from inside the hoop.
• The receiver will then run to place the ball inside the team point holder.
• Each ball in the hoop is 5 points (try).
• The receiver will run towards the beginning cone where the receiver becomes the runner and the runner the receiver. 
• The new runner run towards any hoop with a ball and the process repeats until all the balls is receive.

COACHING POINTS

Make sure the groups is in the same strength (a wing and prop in the same team works the best).

As seen there is two playing areas where you can also make the game forwards one side backline the other side.

Also you can let the opposite teams form one team.

You can also make that the runner must run towards to the other playing area then the one they stand at. 

Movement skills develop and the fitness of the learners without realising it. 

A good variation is to use medicine balls.