Set Piece Videos

Rugby coaching videos from the world's best coaches and players on developing scrummaging and lineout skills and positioning to ensure a safe and effective technique.

7 videos

11:39

Here Bismarck du Plessis isolates the technique of lineout throwing. Looking at grip, follow through, finish and hitting your target at the lineout. Watch Bismarck demonstrate his throw execution from hours of dedicated practice of a skill that requires daily repetition to achieve consistency.

Topics: Set Piece

35:50

In this module I’ll take you through a multi- tude of drills and exercises. Starting at easy and working through to hard. Dealing with body awareness, staying strong with movement, incor- porating the neck and core. As coaches we need to drive the development of neck and core strength for all our players,not just the front rowers.

Topics: Breakdown, Set Piece, Conditioning & Injury Management

25:59

In this video I’ll take you through the learning process I believe in and coach for the scrum. These activities are scrum machine based. We begin by checking individual set up position then move onto the engagement process. Firstly individually to make sure they are all doing it correctly. Then into modules e.g Locks and number 8, and finally we put it all together as a pack.

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22:21

Victor Matfield shares with you the technical and tactical lineout skills he has developed over his playing and coaching career. “The most important thing in a lineout is that you do your basics right and then its like a chess game, when do you make what call”

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48:46  |  9 chapters

In this video I will take you through a set up process that will ensure you have a safe, strong and balanced scrum and a group of players who have the understanding to peer coach each other’s set up position. “Set-up is the be all and end all of life.”

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16:17

In this module Castro takes you through his scrum positioning techniques to produce the greatest power. Showing you how to build a stable set-up, work as a cohesive unit and how to make the greatest impact. “With the scrum it’s the small things, a small thing can change a lot.”

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09:44

“Don’t try to be comfortable, because in the scrum you don’t need to be comfortable.” This is not just a module for front rowers, it’s for all players in the scrum. Castro, one of the most respected scrummagers in rugby, takes you through his power position checklist. Sharing with you safest and most effective pushing position for every individual in the scrum to generate maximum force.

Topics: Set Piece