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Rugby: 1v1 Tackle Grid

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Small playing area, for 1 v 1 tackling.
Players line up in two lines adjacent to the coned area.
Coach shouts go and the front two players run round their end to end up facing each other.
The coach passes the ball to the attacker who runs at the defender, and the defender tries to take them down.

COACHING POINTS

Attackers should use trickery and steps/feints to try to escape the defender.
Defenders aiming to tackle attackers to the floor.
Once the attacker is on the ground, the defending players need to ruck over the attackers to replicate game play.

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2v2 Tackle and Clear Out:

2 on 2 tackling and clear out game.
Players line up in two lines, adjacent to the coned gameplay area.
The coach stands opposite the two lines with the ball and passes to the front player of either team.
The front two players of each team run round the back of their cones and the ball carrier takes the ball into contact.
The two secondary players then ruck over and attempt to clear each other out.
One team comes away with the ball.

Tackling

1v1 Clap Tackle - Warm up:

Groups of 2.

Everyone find some space.
Stand opposite your partner.
One of the players (attacker) use footwork and move arround.
The other (defender), try to keep as close as they can to the moving player.
The attackers claps at a point of his choice, this is when the defender makes a shoulders on contact.

Low Impact.
Shoulders on.

Warm Up

Capture and Escape - Evasion and Tackling Game:

Set up a wide pitch, with cones on the half way line plus an extra box on two opposite corners. These corner boxes are the prisons for tackled/tagged players.

The aim of the game is for players to run into the opposing team's area and grab a ball to bring back into their ball area in their half.

However, if a player is tackled/tagged while in the other team's half they must go and stand in the prison square.

Players can be released from prison by being tagged by a team-mate. Once released they must walk around the outside of the pitch back to their own half before rejoining the game.

Tackling

3 Man Tackle Grid:

Get all players into teams of 3
One group of 3 with bibs start as defendersÂ
In a 10mx10m grid - the other groups line up either side of the grid as attackers. Split evenly.
The defenders work together to stop the attacking side scoring and getting throughÂ
After a tackle is made or a try is scored, the attacking team pop the ball off to a team on the other side of the grid who attack straight away
Defending side need to react and realign quickly to stop the next team from scoring
Start as shoulder on and then can progress to full contact
Defence works for 1 minute and then change
Competition - Team with the least tries scored against them wins

Tackling

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