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Lineout breakouts
Three exercises to check for technique and put players into ‘stressful’ situations, creating pressure on accuracy from lifters and jumpers. By Dan Hemingway.
1. Three pods
Set up three pods of lifters and jumpers, standing about 5m apart in a triangle. Throw the ball to the first pod as they rise up. The jumper catches and then throws to the second pod, who rise up to meet the ball. This continues around the circle for five lifts each. You can develop this by making it a square. Put a pod on each corner, so one corner is spare. Once a pod has made a catch and pass, it moves to a spare corner.
- The receiving pod meets the throw and passes to the next pod
- The pod delivers the throw to the next pod
- Develop by having the pods move to the spare corner after they have delivered a throw
2. SQUARES
Ask a pod to put down a square of cones on the ground. They move into that square to lift and jump. The smaller the square the better because ‘tight is height’. In other words, the closer together the lifters, the higher the jumper gets. As the players progress, they make the square smaller.
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- Get the players to mark out a square of cones
- The pod moves into that square and jumps. Challenge the players to make the square as small as possible – remember ‘tight is height’
3. Around the world
Put a pod in the middle of four cone squares, each with a colour. A hooker stands about 5m away from the front of the squares. They call a colour, move opposite the square and set to throw. The pod moves into that square to receive the throw.
- A hooker calls the colour of a square, moves opposite that square and throws into the pod
- The jumping pod moves the square to receive a throw
- Make the players set out the squares and adjust them during the practice
coaching points
- ‘Tight is height’
- Drop height to lift
- Explode in lift
- Hips forward in jump
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