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Upper body / torso stretch

Developing good body shape is key in the warm up, especially prior to any contact or scrum work

Warm up - Preparing children for contact

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Press Up Wrestle

Players get into pairs and take up a press-up position facing each other. They then attempt to slap away their opponents arms. The exercise requires balance, core and upper body strength.

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Breakdown Fundamental - Rollovers

This exercise combines a number of movement skills to improve players ability around the breakdown and ball presentation. The drill uses three players at a time so the players need coordination skills and it is great fun. Use this for stretching, motivation and conditioining

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Contact Preparation

To prevent injury, it's important to ensure your players have done some upper body / contact exercises before doing any tackling drills.

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Contact Warm-up

A multi-stage bag drill that gets players ready for an intense contact session.

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Warm up - Wrestling on Knees

In preparation to tackle there are a number of progressions or warm up exercises that coaches should introduce, this exercise not only warms up the muscles but is a competitive tussle and gets children used to contact with the ground

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Hold-up Wrestle

Progress from warm up skills and introduce the first technical factors. This exercise encourages close contact skills using core strength rather than levers

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Back-to-back Wrestle

Players sit back-to-back and link arms. The coach calls either left or right, and the players try to get the corresponding shoulder to the ground; thus fighting against their partner. A great warm up before going into contact.