Some Lineout Drills
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these build from most basic part of lineouts to eventually put
it altogether.


just have a thrower and a jumper practice throw-ins in
pairs with no opposition. jumper leaps and grabs ball in
center of tunnel and brings down and turns to present. 
repeat say 10 to 15 times or so. 

have a thrower and two opposing jumpers at 2 jumper position. no
binders or anyone else involved. throw down center. contest
to see who gets most out of 10 throw-ins. do this say 3 sets of
10. teah em to be aggressive goin after ball. in other words
if not thrown high and dropping into you grab it in front of
opposing jumper closer to sideline. if both get hands on it 
teach em to throw a hip into opposition to help jerk ball out
of opponents hands and turn and present. snatch the ball, grab it
aggressively. 

do previous drill with 2 binders only. set of ten reps. 

add more binders. 

binders and stripper. 

add a 5 peel move to lineout. when 5 strips from 2 jumper she rolls
out and cuts up field close to sideline. i like this when you say 
within 25 yards of opponents goal line or closer. 

go over if ball goes to ground and what you want to do then. any
common situations when things dont go perfect in other words. 

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no opposition on the following. need to be able to think thru and
understand whats goin on. 
get your full lineout and entire offensive team. start with a lineout
say within 5 meters of your own goal line. explain your field position 
and the logic of what to do with ball. i.e. kick for touch ideally
and what ya do if cant kick for touch, i.e. touch ball down in goal. 

go out say 10 more meters. go thru same routine and explanation. 

go to 22 meter line and go thru it. 

go to a point where lineout is past 22 meter line BUT your backline
is still behind 22 meter line and go thru what you should be thinking
then. 

go to point where backline is just in front of 22 meter line. this gets
into a certain teams philosophy. if ya like to run it or play field
position. also things like whats score and how much time left in game
and how that my determine what you do at that point. 

go to point closer to mid field. go thru same scenario. 

continue on down field until you finish at opposing teams 5 meter line.

thruout this exercise have the players throw in ball, strip etc and
actually kick the thing or run thru gainline whichever is appropiate.
actually doing it better than just walking thru. 


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if your team having trouble at 2 and 4 jumper lineouts. some teams
might have some real good folks there, practice throwin to 1 person
in lineout. explain the 5 meter line business. you can practice
throwin and immediate ruck and/or throwin and turn and present. 
i would work on both. i like the turn and present option
because you might want to run a rolling maul off of it if you within
striking distance of other teams goal line. 

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play a game thats pure line outs and 5 peels and rolling mauls. have
say a 10 meter long field 15 meters wide. always start at midfield
i.e. 5 meter line. can set ball on lineout and try to ruck it in from
5 meters. 5 peels, roliong mauls etc. you might also have a flyhalf
on each team to boot ball out. good practice. key is to set ball and
get it steady before thing comes out. alternate throwins. team that 
scores gets 5 points for try. defending team gets say 5 points for
stealing throwin and getting ball out of bounds upfield. defending team
gets 1 point for preventing score. something like that. play first
team to 25 or something. switch players around. remeber all the
things you have as weapons:
1)throwin to 1 jumper and ruck
2)throwin to 1 jumper and roling maul
3)throwin to 2 set ball and ruck in
4) to 4 AND SAME
5) 5 PEEL MOVE
6) 2 OR 4 JUMPER the SCRUMHALF run back to short side of field

you should have all these down before you do this. maybe let each
offensive team huddle and call the lineout play sort of like american
football. make em pick it quick and do it. maybe alternate around
the group and let each person make a lineout call. 

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on the throwing to 2 or 4 jumper then drive into goal here is one
way i have seen taught that i liked but we never got that far with
team i had. kinda on down line in learning process i think. 
say you throw to 2 jumper, the #1 and #3 bind as per usual but
the 4, 5, 6, 7 folks bind facing OTHER direction, IOW toward
your scrumhalf. the folks facing backwards then, while bound in, 
rotate hinging at 4 person around behind the #1-3 folks and
bind in to drive. 2 jumper places ball for the now formed ruck. 
i thought it was kinda neat. 


through all the aforementioned drills in theory the whole team is
involved and gets ideas on how to think in those spots as a team.