Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Off the top Lineout
Off the tip lineouts require scrum half to get the ball in stride. Scrum half should stand at 5 meter line, and wait to run into the ball ass the jumper taps it down to him. This requires tons of practice. the purpose of this technique is to get to ball to the fly half as fast as possible. Typical college teams will have the scrum half standing in the middle reacting to where the ball comes. The scrum half with reach for the ball, set his feet, and then pass from a stationary position.
Lineout Mauls
The lineout maul is the most important attacking platform of the American college rugby game. Teams are either successful at lineout mauls or they are not. The modern college game demands fast hitting mauls. The old time college game focuses on brute strength. In watching a good team maul, and in practicing the maul focus on the speed of the attack, not just the power of the mauls. This patter requires speed.
To set up the maul three things need to happen at the same time:
1. The jumper must make a clean catch, this requires a good consistent throw and a sure handed catch. This requires consistent throws which require a hooker to practice dozens if not hundreds of throws a season. Get to practice early stay late if you want to throw in.
2. The lifter must practice the lift and drive technique given in the defensive lineout blog. The key difference between this technique and others you may have been taught is that the lifters pull the jumper down quickly and bind hard across the jumpers gut. Other techniques teach the lifters to reach around the jumper and rebind, this method is too slow and allows the defense to form to oppose the drive . the point of this technique is to set the drive quickly and violently.
3. The drivers must come at depth while the ball is in the air and be accelerating and ready to drive immediately.
See the picture of a perfect Cal lineout maul forming. Notice that the drivers are not binding before the drive. #4 will bind on the first lifter, and # 1 will either rip the ball or drive between the first lifter and the #4. Done correctly you will be sprinting past the opposition.
To set up the maul three things need to happen at the same time:
1. The jumper must make a clean catch, this requires a good consistent throw and a sure handed catch. This requires consistent throws which require a hooker to practice dozens if not hundreds of throws a season. Get to practice early stay late if you want to throw in.
2. The lifter must practice the lift and drive technique given in the defensive lineout blog. The key difference between this technique and others you may have been taught is that the lifters pull the jumper down quickly and bind hard across the jumpers gut. Other techniques teach the lifters to reach around the jumper and rebind, this method is too slow and allows the defense to form to oppose the drive . the point of this technique is to set the drive quickly and violently.
3. The drivers must come at depth while the ball is in the air and be accelerating and ready to drive immediately.
See the picture of a perfect Cal lineout maul forming. Notice that the drivers are not binding before the drive. #4 will bind on the first lifter, and # 1 will either rip the ball or drive between the first lifter and the #4. Done correctly you will be sprinting past the opposition.
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