Breakdown Session Plans - HS with The Rugby Site

We start the session with some Breakdown Primer drills.
It is important to get the body right for the Breakdown contact plus develop the right techniques along the way.
Hawkes Bay coach Josh Syms shares his innovative ideas around developing breakdown skills. Session one is all about preparing the body for the Breakdown ground work. Uniquely, Josh has premier and schoolboy men’s and women’s players at the session. All learning and performing the same skills, and drills, at the same time.

Ball Carry into Contact – we have a number of excellent videos explaining this aspect of the game. For this training session we bring in Lions and England second row Courtney Lawes. Courtney presents a great session for youth players to develop their ball carry into contact and ball presentation.

As with the breakdown defence, the site has a number of videos you can use for this session – Richie McCaw, Sam Warburton, Eddie Jones, Warren Gatland and Nick Stiles. In this session we will continue with Wallaby great No 7 George Smith.

Finish the session with a breakdown contest from George Smith. It helps reinforce the skills learnt during the session.