Tight 5 Rugby

Spots available for the Spring 2025 Clinic.
Information available at www.Tight5Rugby.info

Male and Female Athletes, aged 14-18.
All skills welcome.

Registration for the Spring 2025 Development Clinic is OPEN.

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‘Ball of your foot’

Shifting your body weight forward, lifting your heels, having the connection of the athletes body and the ground be through their “balls of their feet.”

But what is it?

The padded portion of the sole between the toes and the arch, the metatarsophalangeal joints (MTP joints). Studies show that ‘Heel Up’ body movement stabilizes ankles and knees at the sacrifice of energy conservation.

Strengthening the intrinsic muscle systems surrounding the MTP joints has important implications including the improvement in stability of shock absorption. Athletes can become fatigued over prolonged use, so it is best to train in game like situations.

These small joints and muscles can often be overlooked, but play a key part in performance of a scrummager.

Direction of Pressure:

To generalize direction of an individuals pressure and generated force you need to look a few Key Indicators leading up.

Here we have two athletes with a top down view. Are their Hips, Shoulders, and Ears all parallel to each other?

If transferring pressure through each Indicator, will the force created be in the direction they want?

Control the “CONTROLLABLE”

Regardless of your oppositions size, strength or strategy, fixate on your technique and give yourself the greatest chance of success in the battle.

Rugby Law-
18:22/18:23/18:24/18:25

18- Touch, Quick Throw, and Lineout.

Throwers 👥

22- The player throwing in the ball stands on the mark of touch with both feet outside the field of play. The thrower must not step into the field of play until the ball has been thrown.
23- The ball Must:
a) Be thrown in straight along the mark of touch; and
b) Reach the five-metre line before it hits the ground or is played; and
c) Be thrown in without delay once the lineout is formed.
24- The thrower must not pretend to throw the ball.
25- No player can block the throw or prevent the ball from travelling five metres.

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Rugby Law 19.7.

The players in the scrum bind in the following way:

•The PROPs bind to the HO**ER.
The HO**ER binds with both arms. This can be either over or under the arms of the PROPs.

•The LOCKs bind with the props immediately in front of them and with each other.

•All other players in the scrum bind on a LOCKs body with at least one arm.

Position- Jersey number

PROPS- 1,3,(17)
HO**ERS- 2
LOCKS- 4,5
Loose forwards- 6,7,8