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Can anyone recommend a warm up drill for improving agility, balance and coordination?Currently attending level 1 introducing children to rugby; I have some ideas already in mind. I'm interested to hear other ideas.Thanks
Matthew Langtree, United Kingdom
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Sportplan TeamAdministrator, United Kingdom
Hello Matthew,
Have you tried looking in our Agility sport section of the site?
The drill I've attached below might be useful - you could add a ball to it to relate it more closely to rugby.
Hope this helps and look forward to hearing other coach's suggestions.
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Modified Southeast Missouri (SEMO) agility drill
DESCRIPTION
The SEMO agility drill is a series of forward sprints, diagonal backpedaling, and side shuffling. Players start at A (facing forward) On coach's whistle they side-step Back-pedal diagonally across Sprint Back-pedal diagonally across Sprint Players finish as they cross the line at point B.
Modified Southeast Missouri (SEMO) agility drill
DESCRIPTION
The SEMO agility drill is a series of forward sprints, diagonal backpedaling, and side shuffling. Players start at A (facing forward) On coach's whistle they side-step Back-pedal diagonally across Sprint Back-pedal diagonally across Sprint Players finish as they cross the line at point B.
Rugby CoachCoach
simple agility drill but really awesome!!
glenn sweeneyCoach, England
start cone. 2 cones10 yds up the pitch, a yard apart . another 2 cones 10 yds on. another 2 cones 10 yds on. another 2 cones 10 yds on. player jogs to first cones on left side. side slide (no crossing feet ) to right side of cones jog on to next 2 cones.. now approaching on right side jog slightly past cone backwards between the cones then out and fwd again.(always facing fwd) alternate left side approach /right side. Alternatly 4 stations out are "slides" and return are "through the gate" without ball, then with ball in 2 hands. simple
