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Rugby League: Ball around the hips.

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DESCRIPTION

Simple movement of handling the ball around the hips.

COACHING POINTS

Make sure that hips and torso are static and do not move with the ball.

Do 3 times clockwise and then reverse and do 3 times anti-clockwise.

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OFTEN USED WITH...

Shoulder Flex with Ball:

Involve a ball in your warm-up.

Get players to pass the ball around their head to flex the neck and shoulders.

Warm up

Call the pass! 3 + 1:

Groups of 4

One ball per group

In threes, handling up a channel, support runner calls self into line, receives a pass, offloads and repeats down the second channel.

Change support player after each run.

Warm up

Agility Slalom:

The first player runs around the red cone and back down to the start of the slalom. There the player zig-zags up the slalom, then back down before running around the second red cone and down to the second group of players where the ball is passed to the next player

Important no more then a max of 3 players per slalom to make sure that there is lots of activity.

Warm up