Breakdown - Ball Carry into Contact - Y and HS with Brendon Ratcliffe
This is about contact technique, it’s not something that needs to be done at a hundred miles an hour, but at a low tempo, low impact approach will help give your players confident.
Part 1. Starter Coach Contact 6:46 Free video
New to the game of rugby and want to learn and understand how to be powerful in the contact and stay safe? Ex Rugby Site Manager and Otago coach Ben Herring explains good safe technique for going into contact in this video.
Part 2. Ball Carry into Contact 4:47 Member content
Who is the most critical person in dictating whether you retain the ball in the tackle? When is it best to go to ground? What does generate the ‘force’ mean? How best to ‘keep the ball away’? Find out in Brendon’s latest video.
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Part 3. Eton Manor RFC - Contact & Cleanout 9:35 Member content
How to set and deliver a contact and clear out session for junior players?
Watch Bristol player Junior Fatialofa takes the juniors through a contact and clean out session during our Eton Manor clinic. It’s all about delivering clear messages with good safe technique and having fun.
Part 4. Taking the Ball into Contact 9:57 Member content
How do you take the contact on your own terms?
Successful British and Irish Lions and Wales Coach Warren Gatland explains in detail in his Contact video.
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Dance into the tackle
Hitting and spinning
Using a fend
Spinning when on the ground
It’s all about getting the ball back onto your side and retaining possession!
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Part 5. Ball Carry into Contact 4:31 Member content
This session from one of the most physical players in world rugby, focuses on the ball carry into contact
British and Irish Lion and England lock Courtney Lawes uses all of his 6’ 7" frame to demonstrate how to get your team on the front foot, retain possession and deliver fast, effective ball in the contact area.
Brendon Ratcliffe
Founder of The Rugby Site| Course | Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 |
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| Duration | 35:36 |
| Topics | Breakdown Youth Coaching |
| Applicable to | Coaches |
| Languages | English |
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Course reviews
Carter Croft EnglandAll the basics reinforced.
Mark Manderson USALove the development on this set of drills
Hana Rawiri New ZealandGreat hints and information
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