Rugby Rules for Beginners

A video to help people who want to learn about rugby, especially those used to watching American Football.

Please feel free to ask any questions you have about rugby in the comments section. I'll make sure to respond with answers.

Please no Rugby vs Football fights!

If anyone is interested, the song being played is Vendetta Nerds by Shawn Lee from the soundtrack to the video game Bully.

Notes: There are 15 players per side- technically 30 players on the field.

Thanks to the youtube community for help with the clips.

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[soschautesaus]

Great vid! Only things really missing to introduce Americans to the rugby rules is "no blocking" and "you're just allowed to tackle a player who has the ball".

My team played an US army team the other day in a friendly and they had some new players, who used to play American Football, trying to block us from charging a kick-off ;-)

They were nice guys and learned fast, but that seems to be an occuring misunderstanding regarding US-Americans and rugby.

[monkthatgotfunk]

@soschautesaus Good points - it's hard to put everything in one video ;)

[hamasaful]

i didn't get when the scrum is done ???

[monkthatgotfunk]

@hamasaful The scrum is finished when the ball is brought out, just like a ruck.

[Chubzdoomer]

As a huge fan of American football, I have much respect for Rugby players. These are real men!

[monkthatgotfunk]

@henrykeats Great question. In many competitions, teams get "bonus points" if they score four or more tries or lose by less than 7 points. This encourages teams to keep trying to score and not play to conservatively even if the game isn't close. Scotland scored four tries against Romania, earning four points for the win and one point for the extra tries,while England scored only one try against Argentina.

[sk8gonewild]

im just starting rugby and this really helped

[lancsno1]

NFL is rugby for pussies

[omega14j1]

Great vid. This is really helpful to my dumbass trying to follow a new sport.

[MyImaginaryChainsaw]

Wow, rugby is fucking crazy! I never knew :D

[atnmsfts]

@2100loza traditionally inside centres have been smaller then the outside, with a strong kicking game,almost acting as a second flyhalf in the team.I guess thats why they were also called the "2nd five". But with the way the game has developed in the last few years, the position been given to much bigger players who hardly kick e.g.Tindall,Roberts,Nonu,SBW e.t.c.

[monkthatgotfunk]

@2100loza Of course different teams are different - I was merely trying to give an example of the typical trend.

[2100loza]

@monkthatgotfunk well i disagree. the teams i have played against all have tiny inside centers.they are NOT battering rams, because if we wanted battering rams, we would call a truck ball, or pick and go, in which case the forwards (typically the front row) pick up the ball from the ruck and charge at the opposition, but i can see where you are coming from, inside centers can be quite large

[dtpc22]

great video, COME ON AMERICA rugby is the best sport EVER, i want to see it on television!!

[caitlingreetis]

Thanks!