Martin's Rugby Coaching Forum

I am 16 years old and play for my school and local rugby club. In our last school match our biggest weakness was our rucking/ pick up and driving. Is there any drills that you can tell me that would help us to improve this area? thanks.

Break down rucking in terms of key factors and focus on them:

body position
binding
step over
where to bind
how many players over the ball?

You can think of lots of exercises to practise these skills. Do not try to achieve everything in one exercise. On decision making, players have to ask themselves:

do I go over?
do I pick up and drive?
do I pick up and pop to a player who drives?
do I pick up and pass wide?

Again, think of exercises where players need to make these decisions, game based learning!

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Martin, Rugbyhead