Rugby Skills, Tactics and Rules
Rugby Skills, Tactics and Rules
A comprehensive, action-packed guide to playing rugby. Rugby is the fastest-growing contact sport in North America. This hard-hitting game, long popular at college campuses, is now being played at high schools and community parks. The new edition of the best-selling Rugby Skills, Tactics and Rules presents the latest information on all aspects of the game, along with an updated list of useful addresses. The book also features exciting images from the 2007 World Cup, including expert captions that describe the very latest skills and tactics used at the highest level. Features include: All the tactics and skills of the game at every level — for beginners, experienced players and coaches Over 150 color photographs with captions e
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For Beginners Only,
I bought this book based on the reviews, and I am dissappointed.
I am an intermediate player with a strong desire to improve, and possibly get into coaching after I stopped playing. I assumed that given the book’s length that there would be much more detailed discussion of strategy, tactics, drills, etc. However, the book is more suited for a “coffee table”. Even the description of the laws of the game at the end of the book are not very detailed, and offer no context for understanding current controversies in the sport (e.g. what should happen after a tackle, when a ruck is formed, what is permissible during rucks & mauls).
The book is loaded with pictures and the type is very large. It does describe the all of the positions and the basic mode of the play, but falls very short of helping intermediate through experienced players develop their skills, tactics, and knowledge of the rules of the game.
Buy it for the pictures or if you are new to the sport.
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|great introduction for beginners,
I play Rugby and this is a good book for someone ne to the game. It explains quite clearly the different tactics for different positions and has good photographs to show you It’s really helpful for beginners of any age.
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|A nice start for novices,
The book is very handy and actually has nice photographs, but it is targeted to a novice or a “fresh start” rugby enthusiast. Keeping this point in mind, it is a remarkable work, both in style and guise, because skills, tactics and rules are clearly explained.
The text is simple but quite serious, hence being rugby an “informal” sport, a better explanation should be devised for some particular events during the match. The lineout is a typical example: in fact the rule, which permit an aided 6-foot plus gentleman to hover in the air waiting for the oval, must have been thought up by a three-quarter who flew Harriers (the famous vertical landing fighter airplane!). This strange engagement is characterized by a devastatingly human exertion, that is the pathological damage this may cause the unsuspecting jumper’s groin when his shorts is pulled sharply upwards by two herculean “thrusters”! So far for the tactics!!
Another amusing rule too seriously explained is when the front rows collapse during a set scrum. The refree (the usual scapegoat for italian fans!!!) gives a penalty against the prop that goes down first. He may be the less potent of the two, the more tired or simply could quite easily have slipped, but no!, the sanction is quick,steadfast and irrevocable: he did on purpose, shame on him! Since the international refrees are not robust specimen of human race, with large diameter trunks and necks, they wrongfully suppose that above huge necks there is little capacity for gray matter. So the modern prop will use this misconception to his advantage when there is a scrum nearby the Opposition try line. Thus, by all means, usually illegal, he will check the opposite prop’s thrust while collapsing, therefore automatically gaining a penalty kick from the best position ever. That’s what we call a teamwork!!
That said, I will recommend this volume to anyone interested in this wonderful game, but getting in touch with its rules for the first time.
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