*official Rugby Thread*

[Jack3dMuscle]

I made my short term goal of making the under 20 representative training squad!

All i gotta do now is destroy the competition!

[adbramsay]

Originally Posted by jeq

Is was wondering if i should sud military press for push press in my workouts due to its more full body then just M press any throughts?

what position do you play? and do you lift in the line-out? even if not i would recomend clean and press. but if your 2 options are push press and military press i would go push press most of the time as it is more of a functional movement. military is good at building muscle i dont take that away from it but you are trying to build functional strength which military press from a seated position only runs you through a certain range of motion limiting your strength gains. you're gonna want to incorporate as much of the body as a whole that personally why i use clean and press and push press (idealy i wish i had a log or even a big 3" grip bar).

[jeq]

Originally Posted by adbramsay

what position do you play? and do you lift in the line-out? even if not i would recomend clean and press. but if your 2 options are push press and military press i would go push press most of the time as it is more of a functional movement. military is good at building muscle i dont take that away from it but you are trying to build functional strength which military press from a seated position only runs you through a certain range of motion limiting your strength gains. you're gonna want to incorporate as much of the body as a whole that personally why i use clean and press and push press (idealy i wish i had a log or even a big 3" grip bar).

Im a winger currently im doing rippetoe but only two workouts a week due to in sesson just want to know if push press was better for strenght then standing military press. thanks for replys

[decafchicken]

Knocked out of d2 playoffs on sunday, we won our first against WVU then lost to Dayton University on sunday. Our pack dominated theres but couldn't finish in close. They pretty much just use the forwards to get the ball out to the backs which had good pace and flow. held it to 5-17 for about 60 minutes, lost the ball on the 1 meter line as our scrum was walking it in and they picked up the turnover and scored...all went downhill from there.
Probably moving to forward next year because i didn't get any playing time in the backline this year so i'm lookin to move to flanker. Gotta put on some pounds in the off season though.

[ZipOnTrousers]

Hi, second row new to the game. Does anyone have any ideas how I could improve my ability to come into contact driving from low to high? I'm 6'4 with like a 36/38 inch leg length so I always feel like I'm hitting tackles, rucks, etc. really high and driving down before correcting myself and trying to drive up, at which point its too late to make any sort of drive. Is there anything I could do by myself to improve my flexibility or ability? I try to work on it as much as I can at training but thats only once a week...

-Zip

[toad1]

Originally Posted by Jack3dMuscle

I made my short term goal of making the under 20 representative training squad!

All i gotta do now is destroy the competition!

what level, what country etc,

Originally Posted by ZipOnTrousers

Hi, second row new to the game. Does anyone have any ideas how I could improve my ability to come into contact driving from low to high? I'm 6'4 with like a 36/38 inch leg length so I always feel like I'm hitting tackles, rucks, etc. really high and driving down before correcting myself and trying to drive up, at which point its too late to make any sort of drive. Is there anything I could do by myself to improve my flexibility or ability? I try to work on it as much as I can at training but thats only once a week...

-Zip

its more just a technique thing, you'd need really really bad flexibility for that to be a problem.

a few things to think about are imagine touching the ball as you go into ruck or rucking out the ball as that will focus you on going lower, dipping from the hips and instead of bending from the knees. another thing you can do is set like a rope or something and just practice running under it so you get used to the idea of being low.......its not really a problem for me so mabye advice from a proper size player might be better.

[xxtwistedxx]

Originally Posted by decafchicken

Knocked out of d2 playoffs on sunday, we won our first against WVU then lost to Dayton University on sunday. Our pack dominated theres but couldn't finish in close. They pretty much just use the forwards to get the ball out to the backs which had good pace and flow. held it to 5-17 for about 60 minutes, lost the ball on the 1 meter line as our scrum was walking it in and they picked up the turnover and scored...all went downhill from there.
Probably moving to forward next year because i didn't get any playing time in the backline this year so i'm lookin to move to flanker. Gotta put on some pounds in the off season though.

did they have a sunbitch redhead on their team? he played with south pitt after we thumped em this year and got kicked out of his own social after the game.

but that sounds like dayton. if id known u were playin them id say take it straight to their face. they hate the hitting game.

[decafchicken]

Originally Posted by xxtwistedxx

did they have a sunbitch redhead on their team? he played with south pitt after we thumped em this year and got kicked out of his own social after the game.

but that sounds like dayton. if id known u were playin them id say take it straight to their face. they hate the hitting game.

haha yeah our coaches picked up on that from watching them play on saturday...we pounded it all day and we dominated the game (like ball state did vs them too) but they got enough breakaways/good kick returns to put up points on us.

[lldukesll]

rugby + me = broken foot.

[GregNuthurst]

Planning out my next training block for myself. Will post it here when done, maybe even do a log.

[Urbancohort]

MY team this year got knocked out in semis were best team by far. But its all on the day really had a few injuries to backs and had to pull tier 2 players up. Which lost us game as they didnt know plays and defensive patterns.

This was in our my city's high school comp against a catholic high school haha.

[BobisMighty]

Originally Posted by GregNuthurst

Planning out my next training block for myself. Will post it here when done, maybe even do a log.

definitely do a log. it'll be much easier to follow.

[swolepatrole]

How's the rugby world this week?

[xxtwistedxx]

Originally Posted by swolepatrole

How's the rugby world this week?

goin down to OSU to play in a B game tommorow for the ****s and giggles. then plan on drinkin all day

[swolepatrole]

Good stuff. We don't have a match tomorrow so I'm going with a buddy to run some bleachers in the morning and refuel over the course of the day with sweet sweet booze.

Random: Protein powder in Guiness. Glory in a glass?

[beertank23]

Originally Posted by swolepatrole

How's the rugby world this week?

Australia v England tonight.

[swolepatrole]

Originally Posted by beertank23

Australia v England tonight.

[Urbancohort]

N.P.C final tonite go wellington

[Nicolas_Hart]

Originally Posted by beertank23

Australia v England tonight.

Booyah.

I'm praying we destroy those whinging poms.

Better still.

I'm praying we snap Johnny Wilkinsons kicking leg.

[Urbancohort]

FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Canterbury won bloody ref

[Frannycakes]

Originally Posted by xxtwistedxx

goin down to OSU to play in a B game tommorow for the ****s and giggles. then plan on drinkin all day

I'll be playing A-side, I gotta leave right after the game to go to a meeting for work.

[jwest529]

so how ****ty did my year end. we were in the playoffs, i dislocate my finger, EMTS refuse to put it back in because they thought it was broken (this was 10 min into the game), we lose in the final 5 minutes after our captain shatters his forearm. My finger has to be in a splint for 6 weeks or i may need surgery, the team we lost to keeps winning and prolly will be at nationals. FML

[toad1]

played my first game at hooker yesterday and it was my scrumaging and not my throwing that let me down. got beat again but no surprises there

[xxtwistedxx]

Originally Posted by Frannycakes

I'll be playing A-side, I gotta leave right after the game to go to a meeting for work.

yea i really shouldnt have played. my back was still a mess from last week and after about 20minutes of scrumming every 2 mins and one run my back just gave me the middle finger. played till the half and was about done. could barely walk for awhile. bout 10 advils, bag o ice, and several dozen shots of liquid medicine and it felt way better... till this morning. ugh. FML but at least im done with rugby till next summer.

[BobisMighty]

Sharks academy is doing as clinic in New Rochelle, NY next weekend, November 14th and 15th. It's $100 bucks for players. I'm thinking of going but I'm not sure it's worth the investment. Not that I won't learn anything from the clinic, it's just that i'm looking at about 4 months of down time after this clinic. I'm not sure how much i'll retain. My team doesn't exactly get together until about a month before the season, and even then we're lucky if anyone shows up. My fear is i'll go to this clinic just to forget everything i learned. I'm hoping they'll do a clinic in NY in the spring.

edit: here are the guy's at the clinic
Andre Volsteedt:
· Current Sharks U21 & U19 Trainer
· Former SA 7’s Manager and Conditioning Trainer

Roelof Kotze
· Current Sharks 7’s Coach
· Former Wildebeest Coach
· Former Sharks U19 & U21 Backline Coach

[Dom_88]

Go the clinic.

[monatu]

Originally Posted by Dom_88

Go the clinic.

agreed. The Sharks are (currently) one of the most successful Super 14 teams (dunno if you watch in the US) - the coaches will know their ****.

[Frannycakes]

Originally Posted by xxtwistedxx

yea i really shouldnt have played. my back was still a mess from last week and after about 20minutes of scrumming every 2 mins and one run my back just gave me the middle finger. played till the half and was about done. could barely walk for awhile. bout 10 advils, bag o ice, and several dozen shots of liquid medicine and it felt way better... till this morning. ugh. FML but at least im done with rugby till next summer.

About halfway through the second half, I went to tackle someone and got smoked in the face, right in the eye. Swelled up a little bit and I got cut, but the swelling went down by the end of the game, and the trainer put some **** on the cut to stop bleeding, so now I got a cool battle scar.

[BobisMighty]

Originally Posted by Dom_88

Go the clinic.

Originally Posted by monatu

agreed. The Sharks are (currently) one of the most successful Super 14 teams (dunno if you watch in the US) - the coaches will know their ****.

currently working on either getting guys from my my team to come with, or kids i played with in uni to come with. get a 15% discount for groups of 10 or more. anyone in the nyc area want to come out, by all means lets get a group together haha.

[ElWilson]

Hey lads, how's it all going? Currently won all 10 matches and going strong - moving into the second part of the season which means much much harder games!
Has anybody got any tips to make sure you're working as hard as possible without the ball? I'm not going balls out when I'm supporting which is obviously hurting my game a bit, think it's more mental that physical/