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RE: Practical scrummaging practice with only a few players

slimadey — Sun, 27 May 2012 09:12:23 GMT

This season i've taken scrum sessions on different days from training with sometime just a few to work on technique. Some of the drills i have found to work....

1v1, Starting on their knees and using a leg drive to raise to a scrum possition

2v2, Good for looking at binding and the hit.

1v2, The 2 giving resisdance, give the 1 a target (up left or right) or to keep driving straight with the 2 trying to twist and 1 ajusting. Build up to 2v3. Great for 2nd rows.

If you haven't got a scrum machine, get a set of shoulder harnesses, I made ours out of car seatbelts. Teather them to a tractor tyre. It give the resistance from the upper body and makes it realistic to look at the footwork.

RE: Practical scrummaging practice with only a few players

Tourist Pete — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:23:28 GMT

It's quite common to coach the 2 sides of a scrum separately (prop, 2nd row and Flanker) and then put the scrum back together again with the 2 sides and the Hooker and No. 8.

This allows you to look at the individuals' body position and technique with less variables involved.

RE: Practical scrummaging practice with only a few players

didds — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:11:55 GMT

Live scrummaging practise is still possible without two full pacjs or a machine...

* 1 v 1 to check basic positions and binds
* 2 v 1 ... eg LH+hooker v TH ... 2nd row v FR player
* 3 v 3 ... LH+Hooker + 2nd row v TH+2nd row + flank... 2nd row + 8 v TH+2 flankers etc

basicially use whatever units you can muster to scrum against each other. It IS difficult to work on strikes admittedly iof you do not have something reasonable to put a FR against, but you can certainly try FR v 2nd row + #8

whilst not perfect, back row moves can be run by #8 with 1 lnee on the floor and the two flanks fully kneeling.

cheers

didds

Practical scrummaging practice with only a few players

TomSL69 — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:59:38 GMT

I coach men's rugby in the US, and we frequently get brand new adult players that clearly have the build to play in the tight 5, but have never experienced it before.

Unfortunately we never have enough forwards to practice live scrummaging during training sessions, and no scrum machine.

I was wondering if anyone had any practical suggestions on how I can introduce some basic scrummaging skills to these guys, with only 7-8 forwards to work with?

I've tried scrummaging with the tight 5 v everyone else, but it's not a great experience.

Thanks for any tips!