rugby introduction (for those new to it)

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hello this article is about improving your rugby and techniques but first if you haven't joined the rugby community yourself or got your child involved yet then you missing out! rugby can be played by kids as young as 5 and is extremely enjoyable and you will meet friendly people all throughout the process and become close to.

so if your reading this particular article I'm assuming you nothing or very little about rugby so I'm just going to outline the game and the main rules.

okay so rugby is played by 15 players, 8 forwards who form a scrum and 7 backs who form a line the length of the pitch. when your team is defending the line is straight and when your attacking its diagonal, the reason for this is that your only aloud to pass the ball backwards.

if you pass it forwards or the ball comes out of your hands forward, there's a scrum which is put in by the other teams scrumhalf.

the aim of rugby and how to win is by scoring tries or kicking the ball over the other teams post. you score a try by putting the ball over the other persons try line and you get 5 points for this, but you then take a conversion which is where you try to kick the ball over the posts and if you get it over you get another 2 points! the other way to get points is by either taking drop kicks which is were you try to kick the ball over the posts while the games still going ( in a drop kick the ball has to bounce once and you kick it while its still in the air) or by kicking the ball over the posts in the same way as an conversion but this time it comes from a penalty, both this methods give you 3 points.

here's a diagram of a rugby pitch:

okay so the way you defend in a game of rugby is by tackling, when you tackle the player and he goes down this is where (most the time) a ruck is formed.
a ruck is where the two teams forwards compete for the ball on the ground by pushing the other team of it but in a ruck your not aloud to use your hands!
when the ball come out of the ruck the scrumhalf usually passes it down the line of the backs and of course they try and score.

this is diagram for the positions of the player

when the ball goes out the side line there is a line out, the team that didn't touch the ball last throws the ball in, when the ball is thrown in by the hooker the forwards try and catch it and most the time they get lifted, the reason the team who are throwing it in usually get the ball is because they use a shout, which only makes sense to them because they've pre-rehearsed it which lets them know where the balls going.

this is all i'm going to write even though there is alot more i could write about but if you want to learn more i suggest you watch a professional game of rugby.

hope this helped, thanks for reading :)