| This week we look at the basic skill of picking up a ball from the ground. We teach coaches the basic skills of how players must pick up the ball. |
| " This is a very important basic rugby skill and it is a skill coaches can easily teach players by using skills drills." - Jan Oberholzer |
| The technique: The basic skills of picking up a ball from the ground |
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| The player get into a low body position to pick up the ball |
| He puts the ball tightly under non contact arm and makes ready for contact. |
| He scoops the ball up with his outside hand into his inside hand |
| He put his outside ball behind the ball |
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| One of the 29 basic rugby skills for rugby players. No rugby player can be a top player with out this very important skills. If coaches do not teach players these skills, who else will teach them. Coaches can get all 29 basic skills on Jan Oberholzer's CD-Rom - "Basic Skills for Young Players". |
| Week 39 |
| Basic Rugby Skills |
