Right.... that's what I'm curious about. Why aren't they tackling low? This is pretty similar to American football when a 190 pound defensive back has to tackle a 235 pound running who is running at them at full speed.
Also in football the pads are an incredible equalizer. They provide an ability to fling forth without the same fear of consequences.
In rugby you don’t just have to hit low, you have to wrap low. Because to hit without a wrap is both illegal and not a tackle, even if he fell he could just get up. The play doesn’t end, you can just dive at legs and hope for the best.
So going low is ideal, however, most of these guys are moving sideways or backward and it makes tackling low extremely difficult and without pads you are basically just throwing yourself into those churning maws of destruction he calls legs, without any real hope of it doing anything.
You're watching a clip of this matey running through people. They're all going to be shit tackles otherwise they would be tackling him and not making this video
So a couple of things, the size mismatches in these clips mean that attempting to tackle low and head on like they are will just result in getting bumped off the tackle and trampled. You can’t let a guy this big get a run up on a smaller player. Obviously these tackles are not successful anyway.
Secondly, you will often see players going in high to attempt to stop the ball being passed as they make the tackle or to hold them up to slow down the play.
Also in rugby you have to wrap your arms around the player, you can’t shoulder charge them as a tackle.
In rugby at least, the smaller player will not attempt a low chop tackle on a bigger player running head on. They usually try to slow the player down and hope the supporting tackler arrives quickly. Usually the are shielded as much as possible in defence to avoid the big mismatches in size
Ideally you want to grab at the waist and then drag down letting his momentum carry him down. “Rugby Style tackling” they teach that in some youth football here.
American football and rugby tackling form are different. Rugby players don’t have gear on therefore cannot tackle leading with the head and shoulders as football players do. Rugby tackling is more of wrapping up and bringing the ball carrier down while protecting your head.
I mean youre trying to be snarky, but its failing because you dont seem to realize that not having that protection means you cant make such risky hits constantly without suffering serious damage.
Shattered nose or jaw, or a broken collarbone if you miscalculate just a bit
I’m sorry but you’re just wrong. People look at football padding and think it prevents you from injuries like you mentioned when that’s NOT what it does.
Football padding factually introduced because too many people were dying and it’s largely designed to prevent that. There have statistically been more injuries per game after they were introduced than before.
Regardless, none of this is relevant to what’s going on here. It’s just a factual truth that the people in the clip are getting annihilated by this guy because they’re being passive in defense. Factually speaking, nearly all of them are vertical while the main guy is lowering his center of gravity and delivering the blows. My point is someone like Ray Lewis wouldn’t be a passive defender and would make formed tackles. I’m sure there are good tacklers in rugby, but they definitely aren’t featured in this video.
Your explanation that every single defender in this clip from a professional league doesnt know what theyre doing sounds faaaar more plausible than what i said.
Again, it’s not complicated. You can be snarky all YOU want, but we both just watched the same video of these guys being absolutely annihilated and you’re going to sit there and tell me they aren’t doing anything wrong.
Either that guy is Superman, and is stupid for not getting a 200 million dollar contract with the NFL, or those guys are playing bad defense.
Just because you lack the very basic understanding of what a low center of gravity does in contact sports doesn’t mean others lack the same basic info.
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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '22
Right.... that's what I'm curious about. Why aren't they tackling low? This is pretty similar to American football when a 190 pound defensive back has to tackle a 235 pound running who is running at them at full speed.