The Chop Tackle - HS and A with Wayne Smith

Really good and informative description for technique. Especially highlighting the benefits for either tackling to behind the gain line, or for the person being tackled to fight to remain on or over the gain line.

Mark Guerin Scotland

very understandable explanation and demonstration of basic and critical defensive skills

tom pulliam USA

Precise and effective, the importance of protecting the gain line

Andrew Jack Australia

Quite helpful and explained very well with specifics.

lancelot l connolly USA

Very useful and good for learning and coaching.

Gareth Davies Wales

Awesome

Jikoibau Matawalu Fiji

ottima tecnica e buona esecuzione…..

Davide Toscani Italy

Its simple, this man enhanced my craft of coaching.. I forget more than I know, every noe and again i need to listen to the simplicity of intruction and to take a player from poingt A to B.. Smithy.. genius

Brett Taylor Great Britain & Northern Ireland

Excellent! Drills and information like this makes the game safer

Jeremy Cundy Canada

Terrific, well explained. Impressed with the safety aspect.

Carter Croft England

Superb dissection and build up of the Chop Tackle from the master. The downloadable PDF is a great idea to take to the training ground .

John Walker England

great? Awesome to draw and learn from the mind of a “great coach”

Tai Taimataora New Zealand

Very useful, explained clearly, and well structured.

Nick Goodman New Zealand

Really awesome training tackle skill…

Sebastian Suarez Argentina

Excellent session , certainly worth watching

David towl England

Excellent!!

Juan Maineri Argentina

Awesome… Solid clear instruction.

Luke McCarron Australia

Wayne Smith is The coach of the 21st century…period. His method and innovative approach has no match! Excelent site as well

Gustavo Lopez Venezuela

muy buen video ,me ayuda mucho

Luis Alegria Peru

Siempre muy claros los objetivos, muy buenas las acotaciones e indicaciones , muy conceptuales y didácticas , con una excelente comunicación con los ejecutantes. Muy buen buen video muy claro.

Sergio Testori Argentina

Buen video , claro y conciso buena tecnica

Guillermo Ledesma Argentina

Clear and concise presentation of attacking the gain line in defense. Shows the advantages to allow the defensive team to quickly put attacking team on the back foot.

Brian ODea USA

superb and quality presented players love it.

Robert o brien England

I am Italian and I have difficulty to understand what you say in the movies, it would be useful to continue to put subtitles in Spanish but also in English. The movies are all interesting.

robertosalucci Italy

no lo puedo ver

Jose Maria Feijoo Argentina

Excellent visual reference for players about how small changes in their goals for a tackle can effect the outcome of the contact situation. Like the slow build-up also, as I coach mostly women’s sides, the slow build allows them to build their confidence.

Dan Gauthier Canada

Two good things for our U12s to take from it. One: they can build up gradually to more direct tackling which initially intimidates the majority of young players and Two: the Reason they should consider it worthwhile is to prevent the high temp rucking game from gaining momentum. 9/10 from a coaches point of view.

Peter Telford England

Nice work Smithy. Good detail. I have been coaching this technique here in Italy and picked up this technique in my Super Rugby days as a player

John Akurangi New Zealand

Another excellent module from Wayne, emphasising the important of dominating the gain line and good tackle technique. Thank you Wayne.

Richard Bell England

Great inspiration for our team’s defence. Advantage line useful reference.

Jonathan Riddell New Zealand

Another fantastic coaching tool from Wayne, the explanations are simple and clear, hope I can interpret this and players will take up the subtle changes to their habits, in order to achieve a better results. It is the small things that help players to progress.

Roger C Croft France

Very good. Reframed my take on the chop tackle. I’d seen it as simply getting the ball carrier to the deck as quickly as possible. Wayne Smith demonstrates that it’s all about winning the gain line. He demonstrates the techniques to do this, which are basically refinements of good tackle technique. 23 minutes very well spent.

Nick Garrity Singapore