EXPERT SESSIONS AND ADVICE FROM QUALIFIED AND EXPERIENCED GRASSROOTS RUGBY COACHES
Whether it’s in pre-season or you need a boost during the season, use this series of three sessions to ensure you have a strong scrum base. Here are the first two weeks.
Even amongst older players where individual scrummaging skills are pretty secure, a few short but highly focussed scrummaging sessions keeps your forwards tight and skilled without using much training time. All such live practices should be done with boots on a suitable grippable surface.
This session concentrates on each player having a good scrummaging body shape, which also benefits rucking and tackling in particular.
The focus now is actually on working as a unit as a scrummaging pack. If numbers permit by all means scrummage live with one pack against another although a scrummage sled may be useful anyway just to make sure everything is in place correctly.
Set up the scrum and look for “spines in line”.
Now work on driving forwards together. Primarily, players should drive with their inside legs – that is the leg closes to the scrummage midline drawn between the hooker and number eight’s heads.
in Kicking & Catching, Rugby drills
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in Rugby drills, Tackling
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in Rucking & Mauling, Rugby drills
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in Rucking & Mauling, Rugby drills
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in Contact, Rugby drills
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in Footwork and evasion, Passing & Handling, Rugby drills, Warm Ups
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Anxious about coaching rugby to children? Maybe you're already coaching, but sometimes struggling to get your points across at training? Perhaps you sometimes simply run out of preparation time? Possibly you're feeling your sessions are getting dull? Do you want a few new skills to boost your player's skills now? Or to help your players develop the techniques for seasons ahead? Maybe even the core skills for their whole rugby playing career? Here's the answer... MORE
Ready-made, age-appropriate, safe training activities, to provide a complete rugby coaching curriculum for players from ages 11 - 16. MORE
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