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Defensive Structures with Courtney Lawes

In this video Courtney Lawes takes you through a number of defensive systems and structures, outlining where each player has to go and what responsibilities they each have for their role. "The key with defence is to stay in your structure, follow the game plan and to maintain talking amongst the players."

Part 1. Defensive Structures   12:55 Member content

In this video Courtney Lawes takes you through a number of defensive systems and structures, outlining where each player has to go and what responsibilities they each have for their role. “The key with defence is to stay in your structure, follow the game plan and to maintain talking amongst the players.”

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Course Part 1
Duration 12:55
Topics Coaches Corner Defence
Applicable to Coaches   Players  
Languages English , Español

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Course reviews

Excellent from our captain. Carter Croft.

England

An excellent video demonstrating a simple but highly effective defensive system that can be applied by all age groups and levels.

England

do ABC stay fixed or is there an argument for filling inside C outside B so allow the wrap to get in position quicker

Scotland

It showed important basic points. B goes to 9 and A should close the gap, which is sometimes confusing and difficult to stick to when players are tired. The video showed one mistake example which was good to see the actual situation. Small talks are important in the event of drifting outside when the number is down. Very good basic lesson.

Japan

mb , muy claro y didactico

Argentina

Lovely Courtney

South Africa

Super didáctico, me facina la simpleza con la expican cosas que que quizás sabemos (otras no) pero nos organizan la forma de explicarlo a su vez.

Argentina

A simple yet very effective defensive structure well explained and delivered by Courtney

Ireland

PDF download would be nice. Content was great.

USA

Brilliant demo and explaination. Adopted this system with an U13 Bteam that was much smaller than all their opposition – this has evened things up and they have started winning games.

Great Britain & Northern Ireland

Muy buena la explicación de una estructura basica, gracias

Argentina

Excelente video de estructuras defensivas Mr. Lawes. Muy bien explicado y muy buenas las demostraciones.

Argentina

Good video simple instructions and good demonstration from Courtney

New Zealand

Great simply explained, easy enough to share with players and then run, and then run at pace.

Canada

muy bueno

Argentina

muy bueno. Excelente

Argentina

Good to remember about drifting on overlaps

New Zealand

muy bueno

Argentina

good basic defense. A must have

Romania

Brilliant. Helped alot. Thanks Courtney.

England

Loved the simple approach to this.

Great Britain & Northern Ireland

Enjoyed the video. Useful to see the defense structures and work through them.

England

Really like the way Courtney delivers this session.. nice and simple and straightforward.

England

Muy buenos ejercicios de estructura defensiva para mantener cubierto el interno y el externo. Gracias!!!

Argentina

Clear and well explain video

England

muy didactico el video, gracias¡¡

Argentina

The defense around a ruck or after a tackle can be made with the same number of players or outnumbered. Courtney Lawes shows how you should defend. Great video.

Italy

instructive , communication is essential , but even when you are in numerical inferiority

Argentina

Very good/clear. Not so good if your 10/12 etc can run the moves effectively to test the defence.

England

awesome video, great way to teach your players there roles around breakdown step by step.

New Zealand

I reckon Courtney Lawes would make an excellent coach when his playing days are over. Great enthusiasm.

Australia

Great Stuff, I coach a Junior side and our Senior Squad started using this last season with great success. I’ll be introducing it in my first Junior session tomorrow!

Canada

Courtney simplifies this defensive structure and gives examples of common threats and how to deal with them.

Great Britain & Northern Ireland

Very useful and practical advice.

Russia

Coupling this video with the Graham Henry video provides both a macro & microscopic view of the defensive structure.

USA

This was actually an eye opener for me as my defense lacked structure. On the last set were the boy’s shifted on the defense line I used a elastic rope tied to straps on the boy’s to help them shift as a unit. it worked like a bomb. Thanks guy’s

South Africa

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