a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/S7BluSEuIhI/AAAAAAAAD-8/Sc8emwI6jMM/s1600/smarter-rugby-img-ian-mcgeechan-post3.jpg"img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Z0GMBaSoOOM/S7BluSEuIhI/AAAAAAAAD-8/Sc8emwI6jMM/s400/smarter-rugby-img-ian-mcgeechan-post3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453970994545697298" border="0" //aspan style="font-weight: bold;"It's time for another coaching session with Sir Ian McGeechan and the /spana style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.asics.co.uk/rugby"ASICS Smarter Rugby/aspan style="font-weight: bold;" series. Today the focus is on the shoulder push and getting the ball to support runners while going into contact./spanbr /br /If you haven't seen any of the series yet, it features British amp; Irish Lions coach McGeechan as he takes players through basic techniques that are sure to make you a better rugby player.br /br /In the first video today he focusses on driving into contact by getting your head and shoulders lower than your opponent and keeping your back straight. A tip that he includes is to make sure that you get your head up and use that to successfully effect the clear out.br /br /The second video features attacking techniques whereby you're making space for your support runner by taking out the defender by running into his outside shoulder as you go into contact.br /br /By popping the ball just as you make contact, you're allowing your teamate to run through the space that wasn't there before, while you effectively act as a barrier between the defender and the guy you're passing to. You're also drawing in the defender, taking him out of the game.br /br /Hopefully by seeing these techniques for the first time, or at least brushing up on them, you'll become a smarter, better player. We'll have more from the series soon.br /br /span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" Smarter Player + Smarter Boot = Smarter Rugby with Sir Ian McGeechan/spanspan style="font-size:85%;"br //spanspan style="font-size:85%;"span style="font-style: italic;"By learning how to become a Smarter Player and wearing the ASICS Smarter Boot, you can play Smarter Rugby with Sir Ian McGeechan./span/spanspan style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" /spanspan style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" To win great prizes and find out more, go to a href="http://www.asics.co.uk/rugby"www.asics.co.uk/rugby/a./spanbr /br /centerobject height="288" width="400"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ym8O0hjbur0amp;hl=en_USamp;fs=1amp;rel=0"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ym8O0hjbur0amp;hl=en_USamp;fs=1amp;rel=0amp;showinfo=0amp;iv_load_policy=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="288" width="400"/embed/object/centercenterobject height="288" width="400"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tH0katrOOt8amp;hl=en_USamp;fs=1amp;rel=0"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tH0katrOOt8amp;hl=en_USamp;fs=1amp;rel=0amp;showinfo=0amp;iv_load_policy=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="288" width="400"/embed/object/centerdiv class="blogger-post-footer"http://www.rugbydump.comimg width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32316390-9175260807760949733?l=rugbydump.blogspot.com' alt='' //divdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?a=pBN_vHITEC4:FLd6HQnTcpg:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rugbydump?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rugbydump/~4/pBN_vHITEC4" height="1" width="1"/ More...