Rugby Tips, How To Tackle In Rugby.

As you probably know, tackling is one of the most important skills in rugby so its worth learning and perfecting.

Rugby tackling rules (skip section if you already them):
- You must tackle below the shoulders.
- If you pick the up the player you must put him down (you can't drop him) and you must make sure you don't put him down of him neck.
- After you tackle a player you may get caught at the bottom of the ruck, here you must roll away so that the opposing team can get the ball.
Its important to follow these rules because you won't always just get a penalty against you, you may get a yellow or red card.

The main points of a rugby tackle:
- 'they can't run without there legs', you should always try to tackle a player round there legs aiming to wrapping and tightening both your arms around them so they can't move resulting in the player falling to the ground.
- 'cheek to cheek', it is important when tackling in rugby to have your cheek next to there bum-cheek.
When you tackle with your right shoulder you should always have your right cheek next to there bum-cheek and visa versa for your left shoulder, this is a safety thing on your part.

This tackler is tackling round his legs and tackling 'cheek to cheek'.

- When your tackling in rugby confidence is key, your a lot more likely to get hurt when you go into a tackle half-hearted and that's the wrong way round, you should be hurting them! So focus on going in big and knocking them back.

Its important to remember when your tackling in rugby that most the time a player won't run right at you so you'll have to tackle them from the side or from behind but the main principles stay the same, tackle there legs, remember the 'cheek to cheek' rule and be confident!

How to to tackle people bigger than you:

Most the time tackling someone bigger than you should be the same as with anyone else, 'they can't run without there legs' but what do you do when they running hard and straight at you?
- What you do here is the same as always but instead of trying to hit them back you fall back with them.
Unlike a usual tackle hit them a slight angle so that when you fall back they don't land on you, also focus on getting a very tight grip around there legs, that's all there is to it!

Now you've read the post all you have to do is practise, practise and practise some more!
Alot of being a good tackler is being confident so you can develop your technique.

Good luck and have fun tackling those big-in's!

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