Shuttles (only pass back)

Tactical Problem: Moving up the field while passing backwards
Skill development: Legal rugby pass / basic handling and receiving

Teaching Points:

Tactic

  • progressing forward while passing backwards
Skill
  • legal pass sideways / backwards
  • hands out ready to catch
  • reach-catch-sweep
  • communicate
  • receiver stay behind ball carrier
Diagram 

 

 

Organizational Points: 
  • three groups of four lined up horizontally
  • one group spaced fifteen meters apart facing other two groups
  • only one ball needed
Drill:
  • line 1 leaves and moves ball through the hands to the end
  • gives ball to line 2, who go back the other direction moving ball through the hands, and give ball to line 3........repeat