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Rugby: Quick Removal - Beyond the Ruck

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Have a line of two or more ruck shields, a safe distance apart, five meters from the players that will make the hits. Make sure that the pad holders are holding their pads safely. You should also make sure that you have as many stations as you need in order to keep as many of your players as busy as possible.

The player facing the pad should do the following...

Approach the pad high.
Hit low and hard with the shoulder.
Take the pad holders leading leg, raising they legs off the ground.
Drive through the hit, placing their non leg holding hand rightly around the body of the pad holder.
They should pump with their legs, beyond the contact.

COACHING POINTS

Try to get your feet as close to the pad holder as possible.

Drive into the contact with your shoulder, keeping your head up - scanning and staying safe!

Pump through the contact.

Establish three anchor points! Shoulder. arm of pad holders left (lifting behind the knee joint), opposite arm on the on the pad holder body.

Make contact low, but drive up and through contact.

Possibly draw the shoulder back just before the hit for a stronger contact.

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4 players (2 players in Tackle Suits, one ball carrier and one support player) and one ball.

Ball carrier attacks suited player and takes 'leg' tackle – 2nd suited player quickly moves in to compete for ball – support player clears.

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1v1 Tackle and Support Clear:

3 players (One player in Tackle Suit, one ball carrier and one support player) and one ball.

Ball carrier attacks suited player and takes leg tackle. The suited player returns to feet an competes for ball before the support player clears.

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Building the Ruck - One Step At A Time:

Have 3 or more pad holders, this depends on how many rucking units you wish to have and how many players you have at training - but work hard to keep every player busy and active.

The 3 pad holder should be about 5 meters back from the rucking units, and they should be holding the pads safely.

Players should work in groups of 2, and there will be 1 scrum half. Only one ball is needed as the scrum half will move the ball from unit to unit.

Get the players moving quickly, and tell the players the following....

One player carries the ball into contact and presents the ball.
The other player provides covers and time for the scrum half to move the ball to the next unit.

The scrum half should move the ball from unit to unit, and the units/pads should reposition themselves for the next line of attacks. Keep the action going, and don't forget to change the players on the pads.

Ruck

Counter Ruck:

Condition the drill in favour of 1 team, in this case the blue team.

All players lay on their fronts behind the tackle bags. On the coaches whistle, the 2 teams move to contest possession.

The blue players can move straight over the bag to contest, but only the 1st red player can do the same. The other 2 red players have to run round the cones before moving in to counter ruck.

Ruck

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