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Are your rugby performances suffering from poor breakdowns and ineffective clearouts. Committing too many players to the breakdown and still have slow ball? Hamish explains why this is happening and how to fix it!
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Your ball carrier has successfully taken the ball into contact (from last week’s video), now The Rugby Site founder, Brendon Ratcliffe shows how to dominate the clear out.
This is a drill that the great George Smith does regularly after training to work on his body position at the breakdown. World Cup winning and England coach Eddie Jones focuses on making sure you keep your chest low as you go forward over the breakdown and then cleaning the threat out quickly.
Warren explains the how and why of the key elements of the clear out.
Jase Ryan, assistant coach of the Crusaders (current super rugby champions), and Front Row Club founder, brings ‘Momma’ and ‘Poppa’ to contest the breakdown at his recent Norcal clinics at Golden Gate RC, San Francisco.
Watch Ex Queensland Reds Nick Stiles explain how to approach the breakdown to clean out effectivel using key elements.
Ex Chiefs and now Glasgow Warriors coach Dave Rennie always coaches his teams to be really aggressive in the cleanout.
Ex Rugby Site Manager and Otago coach Ben Herring has put together a session plan for coaches to develop new players defensive skills in a fun and safe environment.
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Some really good ideas, well presented.
Loved the vid. Really clear vivid images that players will remember in the heat of the battle
