Passing & Handling
When it comes to coaching fundamentals, you don’t get much more fundamental than passing. Players aren’t all blessed with lightning pace or accurate kicking skills, but every player should be able to pass. The passing drills and handling activities in this section provide countless ways to improve your players passing and handling skills.
in Mini tag, Passing & Handling
Use simple “house” rules in training and games to help reduce the chance of selfish players dominating your team’s possession and preventing you scoring more tries. MORE
in Passing & Handling, Rugby drills
The clearing pass from a ruck isn’t always made by a scrum-half. Every player in your team needs to be able to perform this pass as it is unrealistic to expect the 9 to be at EVERY breakdown. MORE
in Passing & Handling, Rugby drills
Handling under pressure shows up whether the players have developed good passing habits. This fun game certainly motivates them to concentrate on the best skills to win the race. MORE
in Passing & Handling, Pre-season, Rugby drills
A session ideal for pre-season or in-season if you need to reconnect your players with their handling and pace onto the ball. Accurate passing is essential to maintain a flowing attacking move capable of exploiting mismatches and space. Look at the detail as well as the outcomes. MORE
in Passing & Handling, Practice plans
A bad pass need not always mean the end of a fluid move. Players can learn to react positively by adjusting their bodies to catch and then deliver the ball, and support players can learn to delay their runs. In this way, your team can continue its patterns of play even if one of the passes has been disrupted. MORE
in Passing & Handling, Rugby drills
Improve your players’ technique by practising passing at pace. It will test their skills to the limit because any slight inaccuracy will be shown up quickly. MORE
in Passing & Handling, Rugby drills, Tips
Increase passing efficiency in three simple stages to allow players to unleash their potential on the pitch. Use these tried and tested techniques and activities. MORE
in Passing & Handling, Rugby drills
Develop the ability to catch and pass the ball at speed with accuracy by using this simple activity slowly to learn technique then increasing pace. MORE
in Passing & Handling, Practice plans
Mismatch offload brings together many of the basic skills a player needs in close contact. Scanning to see mismatches, communication to alert team mates, passing to get the ball there, and footwork and power to get beyond the defender. After that there’s the soft pop pass to the support player arriving from depth at pace. MORE
in Passing & Handling, Practice plans
The hand off is a weapon for creating space and making breaks.
With the correct practice, this sessions not only develops the technique but also the decision-making skills needed to execute the perfect hand off.
With the correct practice, “Hook’s hand off” not only develops the technique but also the decision making skills needed to execute the perfect hand off. MORE
