Clear your lines from a ruck or scrum by the side of the pitch with a contestable kick for your winger to chase. Also good from a quick turnover and an excellent tactic on rainy days to return the pressure.
When a 9 kicks from the back of ruck or scrum into the space behind the opposition, it’s called a box kick. It’s normally contestable by the chasers, so needs height. Plus, the 9 needs the correct foot work so he isn’t blocked.
Put a 9 behind a ruck pad with a ball on the ground, with three attackers ready to chase forward.
Have three defenders on the other side of the ruck pad and another one near the end of the box.
Have the 9 pick up and box kick for his chasers.
He gets a point for a clean kick and three points for a kick his chasers can challenge for and two further points if they win back the ball.
Develop by adding attackers to the back of the ruck pad.
The 9 can put them in position to be “blockers”.
They have to be behind the ball when the 9 picks up.
TECHNIQUE
Pick up the ball and take one step back with the eventual kicking foot.
Step out with the plant foot, with the shoulders and hips facing the touchline.
Note, the step back can be before the pick up.
Drop the ball from hip height and kick up and through.
Make more of poor opposition kicks with this session. Also, work on what your defence might do when you do make a poor kicking decision.
Most matches have poor kicks. Use these training scenarios to practise your team’s reactions and decision making. MORE
Players who turn for training early often kick the ball around.
While you might not want to intervene and allow them to have free play, you might want to make this a "thing".
That is, "if you want to start 15 minutes earlier than the official start time, I will lay on some activities to do. They are voluntary".
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Develop your players’ ability to jump to catch a high ball under pressure. This session aims to
give your players more confidence.
A jump to catch a high ball is not just a vertical jump. The player has to be moving into the space in front of them to dominate the situation. MORE
Avoid aimless kicking from your kickers. Give them targets and then, as they develop, make them look to kick to space and adjust to before they kick.
Help players develop their understanding of how to receive a pass so they can be in a good position to kick to where they want. MORE
Develop the skills and tactics to return the ball from kicks to the sides of the pitch, between the 15m and 5m lines.
A cross kick can isolate the defending winger. He needs to use kicking and running skills to avoid being caught away from his support. MORE
This small-sided game is ideal to work on players kick chase and keeping the ball alive in attack. You can use this as a standalone skills game or have it as a platform to launch a bigger game of touch and pass from. Thanks to Simon Parsons, Women and Girls Director of Rugby for Tunbridge Wells RFC and Kent U15s Girls Head Coach for this activity. MORE