Rugby: Steps To Success 2nd Edition By Tony Biscombe And Peter Drewett

Master the skills, master the game. Rugby: Steps to Success covers all of the skills, tactics and strategies you need to improve your play and dominate the pitch.

With 13 progressive instructional steps, you’ll learn all aspects of the game. Detailed descriptions, illustrations and photo sequences demonstrate the essential skills, including footwork, ball handing, tackling and kicking. Then practice and improve with 90 drills, each featuring a personal scoring system to gauge and accelerate your progress.

After mastering the individual skills, you’ll learn to apply them in match play. From retaining possession to attacking the opposition’s weaknesses, you’ll learn the strategies to dominate the pitch.

Become a complete player and lead your team to victory. As part of the popular Steps to Success Sports Series - with more than 1.5 million copies sold worldwide - Rugby: Steps to Success will elevate your performance to new heights in all facets of the game.


Contents

Foreword
Climbing the Steps to Rugby Success
The Sport of Rugby Union
Key to Diagrams

Step 1 Ball Handling
Step 2 Footwork
Step 3 Tackling
Step 4 Kicking
Step 5 Contact
Step 6 Mini-Units in Attack
Step 7 Mini-Units in Defence
Step 8 The Front Five
Step 9 The Middle Five
Step 10 The Back Five
Step 11 Team Attack
Step 12 Team Defence
Step 13 Strategies and Tactics

Glossary
About the Authors

Released 2009
240 Pages


About The Author

Tony Biscombe was already a very experienced rugby teacher and coach of 25 years when he joined the Rugby Football Union (RFU) as a development officer for the North of England in 1989. In this role, he traveled extensively, taking on a variety of coaching assignments for the RFU.

In 1997 he was recruited by Sir Clive Woodward to the England Management Team as the technical support manager, where he provided video analysis and statistical support to the coaches and players on the England squad. In 2005 he had the same role with the British and Irish Lions in New Zealand.

Peter Drewett is the England Students Team Manager for the rugby team. He is a former director of rugby and head coach for the Exeter Chiefs. He is an RFU senior coach and was the England U21 manager, winning the Six Nations Grand Slam in 2004 and 2006. He has played and coached rugby at various club, county, divisional and international levels.