Rugby: 1v1 Clap Tackle - Warm up

Ingrain correct techniques and habits into your players with this session as we focus on tackling and rucking skills.

• Small playing area, for 1 v 1 tackling.
• Players line up in two lines adjacent to the coned area.
• Coach shouts go and the front two players run round their end to end up facing each other.
• The coach passes the ball to the attacker who runs at the defender, and the defender tries to take them down.

Set up a wide pitch, with cones on the half way line plus an extra box on two opposite corners. These corner boxes are the prisons for tackled/tagged players.

The aim of the game is for players to run into the opposing team's area and grab a ball to bring back into their ball area in their half.

However, if a player is tackled/tagged while in the other team's half they must go and stand in the prison square.

Players can be released from prison by being tagged by a team-mate. Once released they must walk around the outside of the pitch back to their own half before rejoining the game.

Simple game for teaching tackling when on your knees.

Starting with initially two tacklers and the rest as attackers, players must try to go from one side to the other with a ball in their hands without being tackled.

If a player is tackled they must throw their ball out of the area and become a tackler in the next round of the game.

• 2 teams 
• Bibs 
• Balls 

One team must try and complete 10 passes in a small grid. 

When the player has the ball in his hand he cannot move, the other team must try to intercept the ball to stop them completing 10 passes. 

Defending team must stand 1 metre away from ball carrier.

If the ball is dropped or intercepted its a turn over. 

If a team knock the ball down its a knock on and the same attacking team keep the ball.