How To TACKLE SOMEONE BIGGER in Rugby 

Good video and highlights what I discovered through years of being the smallest guy on the pitch...! The one advantage you generally have as a little guy over the big guys is that you can get lower than them and therefore under their centre of gravity - as illustrated in the video. Get under them, drive with your legs and wrap theirs and you should at least have a chance of bringing them down. Attempting to go high / smother tackle is a recipe for failure (in my experience). What I also found useful if someone was coming straight at me and I was static / not able to accelerate into them was to drop to my knees just before contact and then drive up and through their legs from that low position. Was usually violent enough to break through any attempts to fend me off and allowed me to drive through their legs to take them down.

You just know that every back has clicked on this

I would say, faf de Klerk uses the wrong shoulder but bravery and everything else about the tackle is class.

Yo, thanks, I’m a wing, and I have a rugby game tomorrow, this helped a lot.

I'm going to try this technique. Thank you man

klerk put his head on the wrong side but that was a legendary tackle anyway

Dude I soo glad you picked that tackle vid helping out the USA bois one of their Uni teams actually the best vid I've seen for getting tackling right and effective!!

Great video, I’m a prop but not a big one compared to the other props😅 my defence is poor so I’ll try to do this next game, thank you a bunch.

Oh cool thanks I got into some much into try to be the best player in rugby that I forgot the sport is for fun I even ended up forgetting the basics of tackling I have been making things hard for myself so thank you I am grateful for the content you have me as your forever subscriber.🙏

this honestly really helped me, i had an injury a while back and need a confidence and technique boost, thanks mate

Nice to see Halfpenny put his head on the right side of the tackle....😂

That video features my very own club @Dallas Rugby Football Club practice about 9-10 years ago at minute 1:30 from a visiting Kiwi Rugby clinic.

It's a very good vid in many ways but tackling someone who is basically stationary is pretty easy, even if they are big. The hard thing is tackling someone running straight at you at pace.

Food video, by the way I think that also the head position is really important. I think that faf tackle had the wrong head position. Of you lose the tackle with the head in that position you will go to the hospital for a neck fracture

As a small lock i needed this

As a 157 cm 19yo @ 75kg...i really needed this😂

Can you upload more videos?Youre videos are so helpful❤

Just about t play my first game. PERFECT 👍👍👍👍👌👌

What if they are running full speed at you

Thanks for this I'm bout to play a game and just needed this 🙏

this will help me, thank you!

Just moving into the no.6 or 7 position for a game on saturday and i am so small. Will this technique always work and is there anything else i should do/not do?

it wont always work depending on the players technique to bust through a tackle.

And don't forget to pump the legs

Your link to the Instagram account in the about section could be broken. You should check that. Thanks for the video

Thank you now I can tackle my teamatw

playing sedbergh u15 on saturday watching this for that reason

First don't rush to a big guy. He will destroy you if he knows how to bump off, like that -> ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5m7BPM5oh5Q.html Second, you need to tackle as low as possible. Sometimes it means to jump (yes jump) in the ankles. And then, if he has no speed, you can apply this video's technics. But please, do not rush to a way bigger guy, you will hurt yourself.

If yr smaller use speed and position to get an easy drive grab that one leg n put the momentum out of play. Big dudes use momentum and aint stop start they have to build up n aint stopping once going. Be faster conditioned get on them n slow them down easy n technical. no need to big tackle. Thatl reduce their confidence somewhat n if you keep that down till into 2nd half get a headstart they wont get it back. Unless ur playing the all blacks this should be fool proof

I’m a 5,3 number 7 so takleing people bigger than me is a guaranteed situation

Are you going to mention about ensuring your head is out of the contact area or do you not care about being knocked out?

All the clips are tackling from the side I play league and is it the same thing when they are running straight at u I feel like it’s harder

Why do union players tackle across the body. We were always taught to put you're head to the side not across the body

The lower you go the better

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thx to me

Thing long me no read

0:53 does anyone know this little players name he’s just fearless😂

Lol now there is 853 subs not 852

0:25 - he should be using his right shoulder not his left. Neither of the first two videos is remotely helpful as the larger player is starting from a static position making it so much easier. The Wales/Ireland video is slightly better but not the best example.

Has to be the worst tackle technique you could've used. Put his head on the wrong side.🤦🏾

Wrong, explanation of what those mitey mouses are doing. Wrong technique to suggest for most players in most. situations.