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Jan 2020
5:02pm, 24 Jan 2020
15,715 posts
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Sharkie
Mmm, I think I know what you mean 
It IS great finding a coach who is 'right' for you!
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Jan 2020
5:43pm, 24 Jan 2020
29,566 posts
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Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
3 rest days for me this week as per training schedule
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Jan 2020
10:06pm, 24 Jan 2020
32,934 posts
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LindsD
For some reason I missed all the posts on the previous page. Yes, climbing, or klettern in a foreign wall. It was super good. I might rest on Sun. Or not. Not sure yet. Tomorrow is parkrun.
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Jan 2020
11:14pm, 24 Jan 2020
5,736 posts
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TeeBee
Have fun Linds
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Jan 2020
11:22pm, 24 Jan 2020
4,174 posts
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Raemond
'generally' is a strong word, Sharks...
I've been rugbying just over a year having never done so before (but you're right about the Welshness, so it should be a bit genetic), and it started out as just a Wednesday night thing. Then, as I got a bit better at it and started getting picked for the (reserve) team, sometimes a Friday as well before matches on Saturdays.
Then I broke my ankle and did fuck all for six months, coming back just after the start of the season with the same sort of pattern, mostly Wednesdays, plus Fridays when we have games.
Since three weeks ago I'm training with another club that's just starting a women's team (after years of men's and mixed youth sides) on Thursdays. So in match weeks that's three back to back trainings and a game. In non match weeks it'll be two trainings.
Sessions are different with each club, at the main one it's about 10 minutes of warm up : two laps of the pitch, then exercises focusing on different muscles groups and joints (high knees, bum kicks, lunges with a twist, sumo squats, bear crawls, some other things I don't know how to describe), then there's usually a touch game of some sort with arbitrary and counter intuitive rules like the 'tackler' has to run from wherever you've made contact back to their touch line before they can engage again, or the whole team has to be within five meters of the touch line for a try to count.
Then we either split forwards and backs to work on specific things (as a forward that's mostly scrums, line outs, zero balls, general blunt instrument work. I don't know what backs do. Braid each other's hair and pout a lot?) or do handling drills or mini game scenario type drills like three on two in a small defined area. As a relatively new rugbyist with zero coaching experience it's quite difficult to explain a lot of it. Mostly it involves short bursts of running around/into stuff and a reasonable amount of watching other people run around/into stuff.
We usually end with a full contact game of half of howevermany turned up for training against the other half, with strategic intervention from the coach when he thinks there's a teachable moment.
Gosh that's an essay.
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Jan 2020
6:00am, 25 Jan 2020
32,937 posts
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LindsD
Interesting, though. Put it in a blog! Deserves a wider audience.
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Jan 2020
7:16am, 25 Jan 2020
4,176 posts
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Raemond
Now there's a thought. I've not written a blog for ages.
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Jan 2020
7:59am, 25 Jan 2020
5,739 posts
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TeeBee
It would be a great blog. A great way of promoting women's rugby.
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Jan 2020
8:10am, 25 Jan 2020
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Sharkie
Thanks Raemond - I did ask!
Rugby is a mystery to me as it's all back to front. If you're a forward is that like being a defensive midfielder, or even a full back in real football (Joke! Joke!)
Our SAL (Southern Athletics League) women's team captain is also a keen rugby player, she's not that big so I assumed she was/is a back? Are you, er, quite (can't find right word) imposing? Tall? Or don't you have to be these days?
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Jan 2020
8:28am, 25 Jan 2020
4,178 posts
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Raemond
I'm perfectly average for a Welsh woman - which is to say, 5'4 and a 'narf. And weigh in around 70kg at the moment (I'm usually aiming to be closer to 65, but by default I seem to be steadily at 70 and I don't think the extra gravity hurts much in the scrum)
I know absolutely nothing about soccer, so we can probably talk at cross purposes for quite a while if you like and confuse each other greatly 😂
I remember it was explained to me as a kid that there are two types of rugbyist - piano lifters and piano players. Forwards being the lifters, and backs being the players.
Forwards are mostly blunt instruments who form an impenetrable wall in defence and a battering ram in attack. We generally travel in pods of two or three. We aren't that quick, but we're difficult to stop.
It used to be, as G said before he took his funny shaped ball home, that backs were little skinny things like quicksilver who rarely got their shirts dirty.
Now, I think since the advent of the full time professional game, backs are hulking great chaps who could lift a piano and sprint half the length of the field with it barely breaking a sweat.
That's another essay, isn't it?
Yes, must write a blog.
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