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Rugby: 3 man building the scrum

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

Tyrone, Rugby Coach

Setting the front row is the building blocks for a scrum.
The 3 players (Prop, Hooker, Prop) should stand in a line facing the opposition.
Two props tuck in close to the hooker either-side, wrapping their inside are around the hookers shorts or T-shirt maintaining a strong and tight grip. (Reach as far around the hooker as possible so the shorts or t-shirt are tight.
This should pull the hooker in tight to both props hips.
The hooker then lowers arms from above his head and wraps them around the 2 props, pulling tight onto their tshirts.
Hooker needs flexibility to move hi slower body to hook the ball.
Once set, the players sink from their hips as a unit - usually with a call routine.
Then they wait for the refs calls to crouch, touch, engage.
Where they use explosive leg drive while maintaining ga flat back and strong core to push the other props off the ball.
Body height is key.

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Players down on 'all 4s'.

Position heads to the left slightly, binding in underneath the shoulders in the chest area.

Keeping hands on the floor, rock backwards and forwards.

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Front Rows coming together. Each prop touches the opponents upper arm and then pause before the front rows meet.

The sequence should be: "Crouch, bind, set".

Coaches should replicate this call when practising to help players develop their timing and to assist the Referee

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The aim of the drill is to develop strong positive profiling and to develop core-stability against opposition. 1v1.
Player smust sink from hips and push against eachother in a scrum position.

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