Play the ball 'See Saw' Drill

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Introduction

This drill uses many parts of the game of Rugby League and allows you to concentrate on different core skills depending on what you want to teach your team. A ‘See Saw’ drill is one that basically goes across to one side and then turns around and goes straight back to the other side a little like a see saw, you will understand better when you watch the videos. This is quite an advanced drill and probably not one you should be using much under 12 or 13 years old as the kids will struggle to understand it.

I have called this drill the Play the Ball see saw as that is the core component that I last used it to teach however there are many other core skills that it also works at the same time for instance ‘Timing the Run’, ‘Grip and Carry’, ‘Bump’, ‘Passing’ and Communication.

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3 v 2 v 1

admin    Decision Making, Handling, Warm Up     Catching, Coaching, core, kicking, League, pass off the floor, Passing, Play the ball, Rugby, skills, tackling

The 3 v 2 v 1 is a drill that can be used when learning individual elements of the game and then to keep practicing and making them better. The general idea is that you start with 3 defenders split into a 2 and a 1 with the 1 about 10 meters behind the other 2 and you also have 3 attackers hence 3 v 2 v 1. The 3 attackers first of all attack against the 2 defenders which give them a number of options (more about those a little later) and then once they have beaten those defenders they have to re-adjust and then beat the single defender in a 2 v1

INSTRUCTIONS

Set out an area around 10 meters wide by around 20 meters long, halfway down your area you want to place 2 cones either side of the drill, these are where

OTHER THINGS YOU CAN DO

Start the drill with the players on their fronts or backs

Have 6 players in a line and give each a number, coach calls out 3 numbers who must react and defend whilst the others organize their attack very quickly.

Make the drill 30 meters along so the 2 defenders are retreating 20 and introduce a 10 meter line, the defenders set off with the ball passing it down the line and must place it anywhere on the 10 meter line and then retreat, attack must pick the ball up and complete the drill. This advancement changes the drill a lot as they then have to think about which defender to drag, which support player is running into space and also to take the correct option (Decision Making)

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