Touch, TAG, Rugby Sevens
Mini, touch, TAG and Sevens are all great ways to introduce new and young players to rugby. But we mustn't forget that touch and TAG rugby are particularly good variations also to use in training with experienced players.
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Touch rugby top tips
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Playing touch rugby can pay dividends when it comes to full contact matches.
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Using touch rugby to improve the basics
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A look at how touch rugby can allow your players to experiment and extend their core rugby skills.
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Tramlines rugby drill session
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Getting your players to practise the basic rugby skills is an important part of every training session.
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Fun invasion game for rugby skills
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An exciting all-action invasion game, that can easily be used in your rugby coaching sessions.
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Touch rugby basics
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Rugby coaching tips looking at the pros and cons of touch rugby. These games have big skills and rugby fitness gains for your players but read on to avoid the pitfalls.
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Set up your rugby sevens defence
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Colin Hillman, former Welsh Sevens coach, has rugby coaching tips to help you set up your sevens defence.
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The best sevens attack
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"Score off scrums, stretch the defence from lineouts and breakdowns, then score", says Mike Friday, the highly successful former sevens coach.
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No mistake touch rugby
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A no tackle rugby game requiring constant movement.
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Touch rugby drill to vary training
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Paul Tyler recently assessed an U10 coach. The coach used touch rugby during the rugby training drill session in an innovative way. This got Paul thinking about how touch rugby can be used as a viable alternative to contact rugby in training.
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Fun game to coach core rugby skills
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Make practising core rugby skills part of a fun game for players with the Tiger Tails game. This is a useful game for a training session where bad weather forces play indoors.
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Coach a compressed sevens attack
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Coach a compressed sevens attack to help your rugby players. A compressed attack is used where the attacking team stands closer together than normal, leaving more space on the outside.
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Sevens rugby coaching drill to improve defensive systems
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This Sevens defence drill will improve your team's defensive systems. Using Sevens in your rugby coaching sessions helps many aspects of your team's 15-a-side game and makes those end-of-season tournaments easier to plan for and enjoy.
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Tips for playing TAG rugby
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TAG rugby is a non-contact variation of regular rugby. It is a great game for young players, squads comprising different genders, ages and sizes, and for all those who have never played rugby before. However, it is not exactly like the “real” game of rugby.
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Rugby penalties in Sevens
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Sevens is the abbreviated form of rugby but has become a very specialised tactical battle. One area which is different is how a team plays from penalties.