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Rugby League: Hurdles and Ladder

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SAQ (Speed, Agility, Quickness) drill for warm ups, handling the ball and warming up muscles.

4 or 5 small SAQ hurdles, 1 ladder

Make up course of your choice and run through giving various commands. After the ladder you can put two cones left and right about 2 metres ahead to give commands left or right etc.

COACHING POINTS

Keep body straight on making sure the core is been used.

Head up.

Pump arms.

Use feet effectively and don’t be lazy.

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Agility Slalom - Race:

Set up the cones as shown.

12 Cones with 2 balls.

Start with 2 players on the centre cone, each with a ball, and facing each other. On GO, the both run backwards to the first cone then side step up the grid to the second cone before running through the slalom cones back to the start where the ball is passed to the next players who only go when each player has received a ball.

Warm up

Agility Slalom:

The first player runs around the red cone and back down to the start of the slalom. There the player zig-zags up the slalom, then back down before running around the second red cone and down to the second group of players where the ball is passed to the next player

Important no more then a max of 3 players per slalom to make sure that there is lots of activity.

Warm up

Call the pass! 3 + 1:

Groups of 4

One ball per group

In threes, handling up a channel, support runner calls self into line, receives a pass, offloads and repeats down the second channel.

Change support player after each run.

Warm up

Agility Fitness Drill:

Set up the practice as shown above.

40m x 20m Grid.

Groups of 4

Player start in the bottom right corner and on the command sprint as a group before doing 5 press ups.

They then side step left to the next set of cones to do 5 sit ups before sprinting to do press ups. The group follow this routine until the end before the next group go.

Warm up

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