Safe Tackle - Y with Brendon Ratcliffe

Tackling can be quite intimating for players [and parents] like the way a safe progression presented.

Guy McKim Canada

This is great and essential for not only training the future players but satisfying parents that their kids are being taught to play safely.

Jon Passmore USA

Gret and clear concepts. Wonderful lesson, please continue with these sessions focus on Junior rugby

Mariano Viton Argentina

Great to see that’s content for jr boys

Takai Taulanga New Zealand

Really good to break it down step by step

Steve Botha South Africa

Great to see this content for junior coaches.

Remco Donkers Netherlands

i will take that one to my next sessions, it is well explained with all the key elements but I feel something is missing, how do i teach the kids how to fall, meaning by that the ball carrier, is there any videos on that part or nay of you have tips? Sharky

balauze patrice Norway

Wonderful. Please give us more of this series!

Etienne Oosthuizen South Africa

Fantastic video, great help for a new coach. Training session looked fun, great focus on safety, communication and awesome interaction with the boys. please keep these coming. Cheers.

Paul Platts New Zealand

when this article will be traslate to spanish ?

diego Brazil

Really great video. Part three particularly is excellent for introducing communication as a key element. Matt. Blackarmyminis.com

Matthew Wales

Nice little video, well presented, simple but effective. Be great to see progressive videos right to adults, whith effective defence drills to base defence systems on, there seems a sparsity of innovative defensive drills out there.

GERAINT Ellis Great Britain & Northern Ireland

Excellent direction on how to set up tacking session and how to refocus kids when thing start to deteriorate. Also section with tackle bag helpful to see how fundamentals get forgotten

Eoin Fleetwood Ireland

I’m coaching a team of U10’s who are fantastic offensively but we’ve been disorganised defensively, so I thought that this video has given me a great insight as to how I can introduce some simple, but effective, structure. Really useful.

Mike Kaye Australia

old principle still good something senior players tend to forget

Johan van Zyl (Mielie) South Africa

Great Video, very informative. Best part for me was the kids weren’t perfect so made it totally realistic. Would love to see videos on Scrums & lineouts for kids.

Peter Quinlan Australia

I love the bit in the beginning of the film about the higher you progress in the game more simplistic and fundamental it becomes

Joseph Boyd USA

Outstanding. The tackle was broken down into understandable steps and very well presented. Questioning the boys reinforced their learning. I particularly liked the change over to the tackle bag. It further reinforced getting the feet close to the bag, shoulder in, wrap, and follow the feet. So often players dive at the bag for the ‘big hit’ and don’t realize their lack of power. Quite agree on the comment made about the straight on tackle. I would start with tackling from angle giving the kids better success and more confidence. Tackling can be intimidating for those who don’t have the confidence yet. Overall i would give the video an ‘A’

Tim Murdy Canada

Good interaction with the players and good use of questions in drawing out key learning points from them. One concern for me would be on safety i.e. There appeared to be front on tackles on knees, adult on child contact in demonstrations and with this being global it may send out the wrong message.

Clive Cashell Great Britain & Northern Ireland