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Rugby: The Dropkick

Great site and excellent drills. Easy to understand and apply in training....

Tyrone, Rugby Coach

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Players dropkick the ball, aiming to land the ball inside the area and then follow their kick. They then pick up the ball, run around the cone and rejoin the back of the line.

Ball held, with hands evenly on each side

Locate the target; then, eyes on the ball

Ball held over knee of kicking leg at approx 45 degrees to ground

Step on to non-kicking foot; guide ball to ground; kick ball at the instant it touches the ground.

Follow through with kicking leg.

COACHING POINTS

Hold the ball nearly vertical with bottom hand, with top hand steadying rather than holding.

Keep head over the ball during run up.

Drop the ball, do not throw it into the air first.

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Team Kicking Game:

Two teams of 2. 1 team attacking and the other team defenders.

Attacking team starts with a ball.

Aim of the game is for the attacking team to reach the opposite try line by either using a chip or grubber kick to penetrate the defensive line.

The aim of the defence is to advance in a tight defensive line and prevent the attacking team from scoring.

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Under the crossbar:

Players start with the ball, a few steps back from the crossbar.

They must attempt to get the lift from the tight angle and flight the ball over the crossbar.

After each success they can move a meter closer to the crossbar and repeat.

On each occasion the ball is to land within the target zone as specified by the coach.

Start the target zone quite large and then reduce it in size as the kicker grows more confident.

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Kicking to support:

One player starts with ball and runs to first cone, where he kicks the ball across to the other cone.

The other player must time his run to collect the ball.

He should be collecting the ball as near to full pace as he can.

Either a grubber or a chip kick can be used.

With a chip kick, the receiving player should try to catch the ball on the full.

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Team Kicking (Chip kick):

4 teams of 2 players, with 2 teams at each end. One player from the 1st team starts with the ball.

The player with the ball runs forward and chip kicks the ball on for their team mate to come from an on side position and recovers the ball, taking it at pace.

The player then runs on and hands the ball off the player in the next group.

The next group repeats the drill.

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