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03-20-2010, 07:38 PM #4531
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03-20-2010, 07:47 PM #4532Friendship b/w women:
A woman doesn't come home one night. The next day she tells her husband she slept over at a girlfriend's place. Her husband calls 10 of her best friends. None know anything about it.
Friendship b/w men:
A man doesn't come home one night. The next day he tells his wife he slept over at a friend's place. His wife calls 10 of the husband's best friends. 8 of them confirm he slept over, the other 2 claim he's still there.
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03-20-2010, 10:32 PM #4533
so this week we were sans-hookers and only had 15 guys travel (we only have about 18-19 guys either way). coach switched me from 7 to hooker. i'm stoked to say we didn't lose a single scrum on our put-in. having never done it before, it was quite the experience.
i also scored my FIRST try ever. it was an awesome feeling. there was a little slop in the center and i scooped it up about 30 meters out, broke a tackle and touched it down between the posts. we ended up losing but i felt like i played a great game aside from having a minor hammy pull.
it sounds like everybody was pretty happy with my performance and they want me to start playing 2 more often (the other hookers are 37 and 44 yrs old, we're a small mens club). does anybody have any good videos or articles on the TECHNIQUE of hooking in the scrum? i looked all over youtube and couldn't find anything...
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03-20-2010, 10:52 PM #4534
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03-21-2010, 12:37 AM #4535
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03-21-2010, 02:59 AM #4536
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03-21-2010, 03:14 AM #4537
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03-21-2010, 05:35 AM #4538
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03-21-2010, 09:29 AM #4539
Talk about great timing, this thread is exactly what I needed. Kinda long post, but I'm a little clueless right now.
Used to play pickup games during college about 6 years ago. Totally stopped after that, playing about 1 game a year not to mention adding on an extra 20-30 lbs.
Recently I've started hitting the gym for 3-4 months and started playing pickup games again. Problem is, I have the stamina but not the hand-eye coordination and body control. I can't reach for the highest point during rebounds, and alot of times when I jump I don't actually reach my max vertical. It's like mentally I still remember what to do on the court, but physically I'm just too clumsy/slow/untrained to actually do it.
What would be a good training/drill to work on that? Simply playing more games? Some kind of conditioning/endurance training in the gym? Or some drills that simulate in-game situations?
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03-21-2010, 09:43 AM #4540
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i also had another wee run at hooker yesterday got about 10mins there as our starting hooker decided to sub himself. i only had one scrum and yet again i missed my hook and left the ball for my tighthead as i just like the scrumaging part of hooking and go for the power over the ball instead of hook it tactic seems to work. wasn't having the best of days at losehead although i did managed to get thier starting tighthead subbed after 3 scrums and i couldn't get away with anything at scrum time as the ref kept blaming the flankers for wheeling the scrum......the flankers.
was also quite a hot day yesterday....well for us but i doubt it was anything near 35 deegrees tho. 3 games left of my season, so ill need to get cracking on my off/pre-season planning. might actually get an off season this year but it depends on how tempted or bothered i can be with playing 7s.people ask me how to train, and i answer "i look at what you do and then i do the exact oposite"
if your family was captured and you were told you needed to put 100 pounds onto your max squat within two months or your family would be executed, would you squat once per week? Something tells me that you'd start squatting every day
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03-21-2010, 11:42 AM #4541
Hey guys,
Long time since i have been on the board, looks like i have alot of reading to catch up on!!
How is everyones seasons going? Got 20 mins for the first team last week and then started this week after being out for 6 weeks with a broken hand... well dislocated 4th and broken 5th metcarpal!! think i may have come back a little early but felt after 6 weeks of sitting around doing jack all i needed to get back playing!! Got the cast cut off and started training again!!
How are peoples conditioining going? I cant even do 3 bodyweight pull ups now, its stupid!! How can you loose so much strength in 6 weeks?!OFFICIAL RUGBY THREAD http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107034291
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03-21-2010, 11:57 AM #4542
Today I was playing tighthead and the loosehead was getting his head under my chest and pushing me up. When we engaged he wouldn't hold the shove then slipped under my shoulder to my chest. If I pressed him on the engage the ref would penalize us for not holding the shove. I can't push him down as our hooker swings of the prop and hooks with both feet - and he'll come off worse if it collapses. How can I deal with someone doing this?
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03-21-2010, 02:14 PM #4543
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people ask me how to train, and i answer "i look at what you do and then i do the exact oposite"
if your family was captured and you were told you needed to put 100 pounds onto your max squat within two months or your family would be executed, would you squat once per week? Something tells me that you'd start squatting every day
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03-21-2010, 03:26 PM #4544
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03-21-2010, 03:31 PM #4545
I used to have the same problem. Since your saying you have the vert to dunk, concentrate on going up with two hands and then at the last second throw it down with one hand. Also, make sure your taking off far enough away from the rim. Make sure your at your highest point before you actually try to throw it down. Actually finishing is the hardest part. It took me months to get from the point where I would clank every attempt to where I could dunk cleanly. Just keep practicing and it'll happen though.
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03-21-2010, 04:29 PM #4546
I think hand-eye coordination comes back after a little while, may never be once what it was, but it takes practice like anything else. I would suggest jumping rope for the situation that you are in.
As far as jumping for rebounds and what not, I believe that will come with being on the court. Can't really relate or have heard of that before, but it is as you say a mental thing.
I would increase cardio, as it can never hurt. Without question keep playing more and more games, doesn't matter with people older or younger; you will get a different feel with different levels of talent.
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03-21-2010, 07:11 PM #4547
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03-21-2010, 07:24 PM #4548
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03-22-2010, 03:56 AM #4549
Yeah, by the end of the game I ended up closing the gap so our heads touched just before the engage which just about worked. It sucks playing against technical players.
I don't like going in on peoples hookers - the last time I did it when the sub hooker came on he kneed me in the face and ****ed my lips up.Last edited by newkillerstar; 03-22-2010 at 04:00 AM.
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03-22-2010, 04:20 AM #4550
argh didnt even take notice of this thread until now!!
So anyway long story short, rugby has always been the thing i've been best at my whole life. my career has been riddled with injuries (mainly my knees). I have played quite high level rugby, representing the state when i was 16/17(had my knee reco at 17)
After a dissapointing season last year (grade 2 MCL in the 2nd round of the comp), I had been doing a lot of thinking on whether or not to play in the 2010 season. About 2 weeks ago I decided it was now or never and started training, albeit quite a few weeks late haha.
Couldn't play in the first trial due to work committments, but played on the weekendin the blistering heat. Ended up playing all of 4ths and a half of 3rds. Glad to see my knees and body for that fact held up quite well except for the extreme stiffness sunday morning haha.
I've given myself the goal to get on tv playing rugby this year, which looks like my best chance in doing so will be playing for 2nds and backing up for 1st.
I plan to give myself the best opportunity to do so by training harder and more consistently both in rugby and outside of rugby, as well as improving my nutrition.
And for those wondering, I'm playing with Eastwood (as I always have).
Good luck to those also playing this season!! and go the Hurricanes and All Blacks!!( ' ' ' ) MISC RUGBY CREW ( ' ' ' )
Proud Kiwi and All Blacks Supporter
Bench 180kg/396lb
Squat 240kg/528lb Total 670kg/1474lb
Dead 260kg/572lb
I rep back
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03-22-2010, 04:24 AM #4551
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03-22-2010, 04:32 AM #4552
Eastwood is in Sydney, NSW. Would be considered a western sydney team.
but yeah, I haven't been to lucky with my knee's.
05 tore ACL, + grade 2 MCL leading to a knee reco
06 took this season off to strengthen my legs
07 did grade 2 PCL, but finished the season
08 took the year off as PCL was still giving me problems, and was also studying
09 did a grade 2 MCL second round which took a long time to heal (same leg as knee reco)
10 still alive, as yet. haha( ' ' ' ) MISC RUGBY CREW ( ' ' ' )
Proud Kiwi and All Blacks Supporter
Bench 180kg/396lb
Squat 240kg/528lb Total 670kg/1474lb
Dead 260kg/572lb
I rep back
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03-22-2010, 06:08 AM #4553
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03-22-2010, 03:03 PM #4554
Add me on the list for hooker techniques... So far after two games that the position I've played the most, before this season I played it only when our hooker had to leave due to injury or getting carded.
Does anyone know the actual ruling in USA College for not releasing? I got penalized for it last week, I was in the bottom of the ruck just holding on the ball with my fingertips, arm fully extended, just to hold it still for the scrum half. I thought this was legal?
I also got called for diving over, we were receiving a kickoff, they did a kick where it rolls along the ground and they have someone dive for the ball as soon as it goes 10m. not wanting to kick/knee the opposing player in the face (well, I wanted to, but that's a diff. story) and already bent over ready to make a tackle, I just dove over him, no other players near us. I probably shouldn't have said "That's so ****ing busch league" as I was walking away, either.★cVc★
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03-22-2010, 04:46 PM #4555
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03-22-2010, 06:38 PM #4556
Hey, I recently join this forum and I absolutely love basketball. It's fun mentally, physically and emotionally. I've been playing this for a few years(I'm a late bloomer), i first started for fun now I play a little more competitive like in league/tournaments and stuff.
Is this the right place to add what kind of work out you would recommend me to do here? I've been working out with my friend but his work out is long hours and it drains me out in every way possible and I don't like it and he doesn't even play basketball. I only have 3 days a week to work out too and I don't want to always spend like 2-3 hours there, even though my gym is packed at the hours I go my friend literally does every machine and he makes me do it with him 3x30-50 (increase 10 per week at 25% weight) and then after 3 weeks we do 5x5-10(at max weight)
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03-22-2010, 06:41 PM #4557
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03-22-2010, 07:38 PM #4559
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