Matt, I am a youth coach in Temecula, CA .I coach the U-16's & U-18's . These are great drills that break up the dynamics in passing so beginners can clearly understand. Thank you for putting them together. I am eager to hear more of what you have to say. Thanks Sean Testar
An excellent teaching approach using simple progressions supported with clear explanations to build passing sequences. I am a New Zealander who coaches rugby in Perú. I will recommend this video to my players to reinforce what I teach in training.
Very helpful video, i needed to work on my offhand pass as i moved from wing to flyhalf this season and your video has really helped me to do that, thankyou!
As an English Rugby player, I played American Football at University to try it, wasn't too bad, was quite fun, but Unfortunately I am a Rugby man through and through. It is so nice to see Rugby developing in America! It's especially nice to see a coach that knows what he is talking about! :D Good Luck American Rugby!!
finally... a proper rugby instructional. Question... any advice throwing long passes... i personally can't seem to get enough power for long passes while running. Help me.
Agree with most of that with regards to the SPIN pass BUT there is also a time and a place for the "Windmilll" pass as he calls it. Under pressure most men who adopt the straight across the body approach get really fast with their arms resulting in the ball diving down towards the ground, instead of UP which makes it easier to catch. That' is when a more old school pendulum or windmill pass is required. See the 10, 12, 13 combination of Tim Horan, Jason Little and Michael Lynagh for reference. Their skill level was much higher than any of todays half backs and centres due to the perfection this technique. There is more than one way to pass, depending upon the situation.
I am a American who has lived in New Zealand for almost 20 years, I now live and breath rugby. Im glad to see rugby advances within the US but please enough with comments and youtube posts comparing Rugby with football. That is about as intelligent with comparing apples with fish, different skill sets, aims stamina levels if anything they compliment each other but neither is better than the other
Sean, Matt Sherman didn't post these. I downloaded it off of USAR's file sharing site and uploaded it to youtube. Matt Sherman is the coach of Stanford, so he could be reached through there.
MATT Sherman.. i hope you read this.. or get word. But that video convinces me that you could quiet easily be an ALL BLACK coach.. i'm a rugby player from NZ and i've never had a coach explain the techniques for passing.. So well..
when handling and passing the ball should we be trying to avoid palming the ball and just use our fingertips or should we allow our palms to touch the ball? I've been told different things.
dont worry about that. its about the wrist motion. Cock the wrist and follow through. When you get that going, you fingers/hand will naturally make contact with the ball in the most effective way to do that motion.
Wow, this is pretty awkward/funny to see but good on this guy trying to introduce the (pre)basics of a pass in Rugby League/Rugby Union. Imagine the day some college could send a player out to a team in the NRL
sorry, but i find it bad practice to teach passing leaning over, u want to be upright so your open to allow the ball quicker release, by leaning forwards, 1 your heads down, so spotting support is harder, 2 ur hunched over so the release is slower, i dunno, iv never once had a coach thats been happy with posture unless ur upright :S the pass is only meant to swing from the shoulders/upper body. hips shouldnt ever swing as they should stay in the direction u wish to run so good coaching there :)
I appreciate what the guy is trying to do, but its not good practice for in game rugby. Actually coaching bad habits. Im a coach myself, just my opinion IRFU L1
@Taurion4467 seems you deleted your last comment good thing since i smoked you in everythnig you said best just not talk anymore and stay quiet in your corner nfl is a good sport but to me rugby is more fun involves more team work and has more action like i said i don;t mind nfl but don't get cocky kid you keep your opinion i keep mine freedom of speech your country was built on it buddy btw im not aussie i was born in poland and moved to australia at 10 that makes me polish
@206sole lol you said rugby is a fall back for nfl players please read it than you said i cant read and you write rugby is for football players that got cut from nfl so whats next make your mind up? anyway its my opinion if american football didn't have so many stops and starts id enjoy it more than rugby btw there is a few aussies in nfl many of them gonig to collage so don't tell me there is just one.i might come to america for a holiday cause our shit country has a better currency
yes your right us Americans aren't too good at rugby, thats because we get way better opportunities playing American sports plus way more money. but who cares? I dare you try play American football! Its not like rugby where you only get tackled head-up. In American football you get blind-sided left and right, chopped blocked, high tackled, and speared. none of which is legal in rugby. Thats why we wear pads and rugby players don't. I played both. Defensive end in Football. #8 in Rugby. haters going hate.
Paula Kava It's true if you do a PROPER sphere u can seriously hurt yourself and you victim. Try doing that in an NFL game and we will see if they just send you off the bench for a couple of minutes. Know your facts and Know your SPORT.
shame you ended with "haters going to hate" a mindless bit of empty and jaded rhetoric used to dismiss critisizm as merely being a hate disorder in the person making the cririsizm, or even just having a different view. ... you don't get tackled head up in rugby, you do get tackled from the side and spearing is dangerous in a way that adds nothing to either game... there are good things about both.. but you seem to think quality of game is based on the possibility of stupid injury. I think what people really don't like about American football, from outside, is the constant stopping of play.. it makes it boring, the constant add breaks and commercial nature of it... didn't they want to break the football world cup into 4 quarters for adds!!! finding these things off putting is not hate, they are valid things against American football... and there is nothing really comparable on rugby to them. .. unless you think not being able to slam people down on their heads and risk permanent spinal injury is a failing in the game....as for the money, that ruins sports.. not a fan of football(British( but can see the farce it has become with it's money, look at UFC, it's a monstrosity and has nothing in common with real martial arts and martial sports, like American football, lost of talk, lots of adds, and people shouting as much for pain and injury as skill. On the other side, I don't think most people get that American footbal is more about over strategies of combining plays to and end result, as rugby uses strategies to set up good long plays and the play is as much part of the win as an overall strategy. But really Paula, rugby is such a English, European, S Amercan and basically non American game, of course people will comment on youtube tutorial on it being given by an American, just as one would seeing American football tutorials given by a brit... but if you rate things based on how many plays are allowed that could seriously injure a person, not based on skill etc, then you really don;t know sport and are like the UFC fan who knows nothing about martial arts, but says UFC is the best.. while they cheer for injures, rather than skill.. which they can not see as they are ignorant.
@SirChristopherMozier i can have my opinion but don't state stupid things like that well what's the point of having my opinion please don't reply i never said anything about nfl football or baseball or basketball i just said a real sport i come from aus we do things rougher down here
@206sole Yea because everyone who plays rugby stays with rugby not for the reason that your sport is shit but cause they feel the team work involved in it and everyone can score a try, and thx the fact that my channel even says I'm from Australia yet you claim uk plz speak no more american boy you make me laugh, you have to much emotion go play some rugby don't let your tears go to waste hero
