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Supreme Being
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Yes the idea of the upright bags is good. I use that when the helmets is just too much for them. For juniors I use a heavy boxing bag. You swing at at him like a club. The ideas being that he must keep his feet in the ground all through the tackle.
OK- for the meek - take a medicine ball and throw it at him harder and harder. Make catching the ball the aim of the exersise. Make him run onto the contact with the ball. Very few people can catch with their eyes closed.
Whats all this stuff about U11's and U16s you guys are kidding me right?
Junior Weight training being bad is urban legend. Its another whole thread on its own but start here www.theweakgeteaten.com Then if you need to hear it from the medical experts go here http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Supertraining/
The merits of fighting - The idea of the "classic fighter animal" is outdated. The modern fighter is Lennox Lewis or Victor Klitchko. One ex world kick boxing champ I know, went back to University to do his masters in Psycology when he retired. A local heavy weight cage champion teaches rich kids at a private school how to fight. A third, the SA mutai boxing champ is my personal trainer in weight lifting. They share one thing common, humility and a gentleness with other people.
Before I would let my son play rugby he did 3 years of cage fighting (Starting at age 4). It gave him a significant advantage. He now is is the leading try scorer and tackler in his school. They teach kids martial arts from age 5 in gyms all over the world. It should be a prerequisite for Rugby.
England is my second favorite team, but after every Twickenham game that I watch, where you have these noble warriors limping off the field bleeding and keeping stiff upper lips (notice its always the guys in white doing the bleeding), I want jump off the couch and scream, "The aim of Rugby is not to go out and get hurt playing for your team, but to let the other guy get hurt playing for his".
Examples of people that close their eyes in contact, Martin Cory, Phil Vickery, Johnny Wilkinson - you can see it in their contact posture! If you can't see this problem by looking at the video or watching your players posture follow him to the gym, He will be the same guy who closes he eyes when pushing upwards on a heavy bench press.
In my 10 years of Gridiron coaching I coached over 1000 players. Less than 10 played though all 10 years. That 1 % shared one thing in common they all trained weights and they were all schooled in martial arts.
Fighting teaches you to keep your eyes open in contact. Keeping your eyes open is critical to to good technique.
Philip Copeman
www.ironrugby.com
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