Rugby Rucking Techniques

Different rucking techniques for clearing defenders and maintaining possession. Session run by Dan Payne of Life U and USA Rugby

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Science & Technology

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• rugby
• rugby drills
• college rugby
• rucking

[kissmyrrs]

I hope this is one misguided coach's interpretation of what is allowed in rugby and is not a video sanctioned by USA Rugby.

Techniques 2 & 3 are dangerous play and in particular #3 is disturbing as you are coaching players to attack the neck/head area of an opponent with the shoulder. Going off your feet and then "making it appear" that you haven't doesn't change the fact that you have.

You seriously need to sit down and re-read the Laws of the Game before coaching illegal, dangerous play

[CollegeRugbyUSA]

@kissmyrrs once again person who cant read, I am NOT the 1 in the video. Re the 3rd technique. U just don't understand it. Hes not coaching the player to aim for the head &make the impact there. Hes explaining that "where the head goes, the body goes". If u apply force there, NOT IMPACT, then he must go. Kind of like a "cross-face" in wrestling. 1st rule of rucking is to get underneath the defender's head and lift him up so u can get leverage & drive him back. Same idea here.

[KCchiefQB]

Is this legal for High School Rugby in America? Such as in the Midwestern Heart of America Rugby?

[DestroyerofStones42]

@kissmyrrs None of those techniques are either dangerous or illegal. Technique 2 is something you see very frequently in the international game, and is pretty much the safest way to clear a guy away from a ruck. Technique 3 is not targeting the head, as Coach Payne actually said to target the collarbone, which is shoulder/chest region. In making contact there, you control the head, and therefore the rest of his body.

And no, you are not leaving your feet. You're flat and balanced.

[Superjuniorbox15]

@kissmyrrs 2 isnt dangerous play,

[stealthyturtl]

First American who kinda knows what he is talkin about

[JoeRUGBY10]

@kissmyrrs There both fine and see professionals doing it all the time so be quiet

[BodybuildinginTX]

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[miltime27]

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[BodybuildinginTX]

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