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Rugby: Steps to Success - 2nd Edition (Steps to Success: Sports)
 
 
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Rugby: Steps to Success - 2nd Edition (Steps to Success: Sports) [Paperback]

Tony Biscombe (Author), Peter Drewett (Author)
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Steps to Success: Sports November 30, 2009

Master the skills, master the game. Rugby: Steps to Success covers all of the skills, tactics and strategies you need to improve your play and dominate the pitch.

With 13 progressive instructional steps, you'll learn all aspects of the game. Detailed descriptions, illustrations and photo sequences demonstrate the essential skills, including footwork, ball handing, tackling and kicking. Then practice and improve with 90 drills, each featuring a personal scoring system to gauge and accelerate your progress.

After mastering the individual skills, you'll learn to apply them in match play. From retaining possession to attacking the opposition's weaknesses, you'll learn the strategies to dominate the pitch.

Become a complete player and lead your team to victory. As part of the popular Steps to Success Sports Series—with more than 1.5 million copies sold worldwide—Rugby: Steps to Success will elevate your performance to new heights in all facets of the game.


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""An extremely well documented book, with systemic steps to develop rugby -An invaluable resource for the developing rugby coach and supporter.""
Les Cusworth
Assistant Coach, England Rugby Union Team
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Rugby: Steps to Success is an excellent and well structured resource for helping players and coaches to develop. It is an invaluable tool in the preparation for and the understanding of the game, for participants of all ages and abilities."

Will Greenwood, MBE, Represented England on 55 occasions and the British and Irish Lions twice

"It doesn’t matter whether you are an amateur or a professional rugby player. Mastering the basic skills will be the key to your success. Rugby: Steps to Success provides a no-nonsense approach to developing the core skills of the game."

Nigel Melville, CEO and President of Rugby Operations, USA Rugby

“It's no surprise to me that Pete and Tony have succeeded in producing a must read book for any aspiring young rugby player and rugby coach. It's full of great ideas and advice based on years of experience and success in the game.”

Jason Leonard, MBE, Represented England on 114 occasions and the British and Irish Lions five times

Rugby: Steps to Success is a true reflection of everything that the modern day rugby player needs to master. Players and coaches following the Biscombe and Drewitt approach will acquire an excellent grounding of the fundamental skills of rugby.”

Matthew Tait, Sale Sharks and England, Represented England on 25 occasions


Product Details

  • Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Human Kinetics; 2 edition (November 30, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0736081739
  • ISBN-13: 978-0736081733
  • Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #79,928 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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40 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Rugby: Steps to Success, April 30, 2000
This book is incredibly organized. It begins with basic skills, includes drills, troubleshooting in the drills, mistakes usually made, how to correct them, and how to tell if you're doing things right. Each chapter builds on what is learned before and gets into more and more complex tasks. It's almost like having a coach right there with you. I highly recommend it for any rubgy captain, coach or player.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Sticking to the Basics, November 18, 2003
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This book is great for rugby players of all levels and positions. The chapters are well laid out and offer general instruction and then move on to skills sessions in varying degrees of difficulty. The book gives a great overview on the basics of the game, and winning rugby is all about sticking to the basics.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Single Best Book of Its Kind, April 22, 2010
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Especially if you are just starting to learn to play rugby, this is the single best book to get. It covers the laws, core skills, offensive and defensive strategies, training, basically everything you need to know, and is laid out perfectly, with engaging, illuminating graphics. It manages to cover everything while being fairly concise and properly sequenced. Indispensable for beginning and intermediate rugby players wishing to improve.

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