Rugby 101: All the basics of Rugby – All you need to know to watch your first game
Welcome to “Rugby 101: All the Basics of Rugby – All You Need to Know to Watch Your First Game”! If you’re new to the exhilarating world of Rugby Union or simply want to enhance your understanding of the game, you’ve come to the right place. This comprehensive video is designed to equip you with all the essential knowledge to enjoy and appreciate Rugby to the fullest.
In this beginner-friendly tutorial, we cover everything you need to know about how Rugby works, from the basic rules and gameplay to the fundamental elements that make it such a unique and thrilling sport. We’ll walk you through the intricacies of lineouts, scrums, rucks, and mauls, ensuring you grasp the mechanics of these crucial aspects of the game.
Our informative video also explains the layout of the Rugby field, providing insights into the various zones and markings that form the foundation of the game. Additionally, we’ll introduce you to the different Rugby positions, exploring the roles and responsibilities of both the powerful Forwards and the skillful Backs.
Whether you’re wanting to learn how to play Rugby, a sports enthusiast or someone seeking to broaden their horizons, this video is your gateway to understanding Rugby Union. We present the rules and concepts in a clear and accessible manner, making it easy for beginners to follow along and comprehend.
Join us as we unravel the Laws of Rugby Union, offering valuable insights into the regulations that govern the sport. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll have the confidence and knowledge necessary to watch your first Rugby game with a newfound appreciation for the strategies, athleticism, and camaraderie that define this incredible sport.
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Thank you for joining us on this exciting journey into the world of Rugby Union. Prepare yourself to witness the intensity, skill, and passion of this captivating sport like never before!
https://youtu.be/R_SarnzzMfE – Link to video explaining all the positions of Rugby Union
Greetings from Canada! i enjoyed your video i have never played the game but i am quite intrigued by it.we are getting more coverage in this part of the world lately! Thanks alot!
Well done! I played rugby for more than a dozen years (mostly in Scotland), have watched it all my life and I still learned a few things!!
Just fell in love with this amazing sport and your videos helped me so much enjoying my first Six Nations! Thank you!
Nice to see Queen’s University’s Nixon field get some representation lol was not expecting that!
Rugby 7 as played in the Olympics looks so different than this explanation. Liking how wild it all seems.
I am 15 years old and Covid kinda messed up my sports life, now I am slowly getting back into them (I know lockdown ended I just took a long time to get back into them) one at a time, I’m excited to get into rugby now.
Played rugby as a kid but picking up the game tomorrow as a 26 year old for the first time time in years. Perfect refresher, got me pumped to get back to the sport I loved so much
The pacing of this video was perfect, very easy to follow.
Way better than American football in my opinion.More continuous flow to the game. The average play in football lasts about 5 seconds then they stand around for 30. You spend hours watching commercials and dead play, and only about 12 minutes or so out of 60 watching the actual game. In terms of watching actual continuous play. Rugby is where it’s at. Along with the fact that there is very little protective equipment. Much admiration for rugby players.
I’ve slowly become interested in Rugby due to my cousin getting married to a great guy from South Africa. He has helped me understand the game a bit as I helped him understand American Football better. That was years ago though and now here I am trying to really get into it. American Football was always my favorite sport since I was a kid but if I’m being honest, now at 44 with so much of the game itself changing, I’ve become a bit tired of it and it’s lost a bit of it’s excitement. Rugby looks like an absolute blast and I wish like hell it was bigger here in the States. Soccer really gained a foothold here but not so much for rugby. Anyway, going to give your channel a follow and go watch some rugby games. 🙂 Cheers.
Football makes so much more sense
Can you do one for intercepting ? , these are really good
I saw Ilona Maher and now I need to understand rugby!
Really helpful for me, who was raised on Aussie Rules football. Thanks very much. Excellent.
I’m going back to rugby again played for 6 years had a 2 year break I need a rule check
Rugby is a great competitive game. Thanks for helping me understand how it works. Excellent video.
This is rugby union. Very different from rugby league.
So the forwards and backs are basically the opposite of what they are in regular football (soccer). With the forwards the fast and nimble players and backs the heavy and powerful players.
Thank you much! I’m a complete novice, but my city just got a pro women’s club, so I’ve gotta support the home team! This was really helpful. 🙂
I’m watching this just because there’s a boy I like and he plays rugby🥲
Rugby looks like a game invented by 7yo boys on the schoolyard
I’m watching this because I just bought tickets to a Stormers VS Ospreys game. Both my brothers played rugby growing up and my mom and I would always go and support them at their matches. I cheered for them but NEVER really knew what I was cheering for. This is a great 101 for myself and my husband. I’m going to listen to this continually leading up to the Stormers game. Thank you. This was very helpful👌🏼
I am From Pakistan, and Love Rugby..
When a player gets sent to the sin bin is the team down a man on the field like hockey? or can another player take his spot?
What a tackle at 14:41!
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Thank you very much for this video. When I was younger American football was by far my favorite sport but it has gone vastly downhill as far as the rulesets go in the last 20 years.
Rugby is in my opinion , the greatest team sport ever devised .
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Still can’t understand it. I need to be hands on to learn it i guess.
great vid bro!!
btw coach is spelled c o a c h
thanks for this great clip. unfortunately,in these past years, they are trying very hard to reduce the role of scrum and forwards in rugby union,because of so-called safety reasons. imo, without scrums and forwards,there will be no more rugby.
I am 74 years old and learning so much from your channel .Thanks mate.
I played for 19 years before it became professional. I played in US and UK. I later coached men’s and women’s teams and refereed at least 100 matches. I had nearly 90 percent verbatim recall of the the Laws. I’ve tried to keep up with "law" changes to explain how rugby became to my eye a much less enjoyable game….boring in a word….and perhaps because "bashing" became more important than creating space and moving the ball. That was at one time the excitement and no such aberration as videos or Rugby’sy greatest Hits, Brawls, Brutality would have been countenanced. Not the spirit that all playing back then were taught over and over. To wit, the collapse of the scrum was not a tactic but a clear violation for which the "rogues, those no imbued with the spirit would be sent of and even dropped by their clubs selectors. But here we are: Explain please why the "jackel" must jackel over the back of the tackled player. Where there is no ruck formed, shouldnt’ that be a free ball released or place "immediately", not cuddled requiring a struggle for it with the jackel. And how is that the a ruck is formed by binding up to the armpit with one on one’s team or the opposition and yet clearly that is no regularly done in top side matches. In the same mien, how can a jackel be "cleaned out" by a shoulder charge that would be a penalty if it was done to a ball carrier ie "dangerous play". Furthermore, how is it that a maul from a lineout countenances 7 players clearly offside ie in front of the ball in possession by the 8th may at the back of the maul, and pushing the opposition ie taking part in play from an offside position. Again, keeping ones feet in the ruck…so players, perhaps side by side may get over the tackled player on their team ( who has made no attempt to roll away from the ball after having released NOT immediately) and NOT be bound not in contact with the opposition ie no ruck according to the Laws, and yet a defender can’t come round the non-ruck and play the ball, or walk between the two side by side in press up position and play the ball? How is it that despite the clear statement that rucks or mauls should not ever be collapsed by design, 80 plus percent of rucks or mauls end up collapsed.? As these Laws are not fully maintained by referees, I suspect that referees in the professional game are instructed to "let things go a bit". As it is, that letting things go, means defense at the breakdown is near pointless and players spread about the field….less space for ball or runners to move. So teams "bash" by getting bigger and bigger blokes to "win the collision" and or "kick" and "kick" and kick"…How does one stop the "bashing through" by gettng bigger players as well to defend. And what if larger bodies can’t run about the pitch for a full 80 minutes….we have 8 subs for them. The game has ceased to be inclusive and or require greater fitness and greater individual and team and unit skills. Not saying they don’t exist, they should as pros get to practice and train, but the Laws so of "winked" at have created a game that is much less enjoyable to watch and much more injury prone to play ( study after study confirms this as do declining registered number of players in UK and Australia) I’ve tried for 7 years to get answers from various talking heads, and "guv’nors" and no one responds even to one question. Is the fix that unsure of itself that it dare not discuss anything the "guv’nors" have come up with behind closed doors?
I am an American in this video. Absolutely started me on my rugby journey.
Thanked you man you helped alot
Why is is specifically 22m line?
Playing for 8 years so far! Best sport ever 😍
I just got into rugby this year, just blindly enjoying the chaos. Now I’m trying to learn the basics, and this video was super helpful. Thank you!
Have these videos stopped? I have sent most to my team of new players and they are a great resource to us
COME BACK!
I always see them pitch the ball to the left backwards or to the right backwards. I never see them pitch it directly backwards to the player directly in back of you and I never see them jump or dive over other people
One of the Most DISGUSTING GAMES THERE IS.
I attended a Rugby Game in the Air Force. ON BASE. It was a Playoff for 3 different Teams.
The Teams decided to RUN ME DOWN, LIFT ME UPSIDE DOWN, AND CARRY BACK TO THE DEBAUCHERY and SING "Alouette" —a Children’s Song!!! except for "The Rugby Queen" it’s innocent lyrics are PERVERTED SONG and it is SUNG TO AND ABOUT YOU. And they GOT AWAY WITH ASSAULT, FALSE IMPRISONMENT, AND SLANDER.
WOMEN: DON’T EVER ATTEND A RUGBY GAME it is a DISGUSTING GAME PLAYED BY DISGUSTING PEOPLE.
I’m confused on 1 thing. When a team has control of the ball and there working their way down the field passing laterally they get tackled they get up. They do it again they get tackled they get up. My question is is there a number of tries that they get before the other team gets the ball or they have to kick it away to the other team. i’ve never understood this point here.
Thank u sm for this I have traing coming up so this will reall help
Am i the only one who’s learning about rugby for a fanfiction im writing?
Who else is here because Louis Rees-Zammit joined the Chiefs?
I have watched the Six Nations for years, and never had a clue what was happening or Why ! Just watched it to see what team won, Now thanks to you I know what the game is about, and how it works THANK YOU
Where’s our Mauling video? Greatest freaking name of a play in all of sports…Maul… freaking great! Im now in love watching Rugby (union)…years ago some Aussie told me i should watch a game…i found one on tv… didn’t understand it…a kick went through the goal post and some guy in a hunting safari hat came out, took both hands, made what looked like a finger pistol with each hand, and brought his elbows diwn to his waist…fingers shooting forward…uh…what was that?
I dont understand punting in rugby–sometimes it seems that a team is making progress running the ball up the field and then all of a sudden a player will punt the ball and give up possession to the other team?
Very helpful video! Thank you!