In secondary school rugby is usually played during the winter in either pouring rain or snow while the PE teacher stands around in a massive coat telling you it's not that cold there's no reason to stop playing.
I hated PE at school not being interested in any kind of sports, but I enjoyed rugby as we used to find the muddiest part of the field and practice tackles
I remember playing in hail the size of chick peas once. I was on the wing and only touched the ball once all game. When we went off my lips were blue and I'm fairly certain I was in the early stages of hypothermia.🥶
Exactly, but for me it was primary school. My secondary school didn't care much for sport at all, but my primary school headmaster was a big rugby fan. So there we were, 10 or 11 years old, out there in gale-force winds, snow, the freezing cold, the ground rock hard. Frankly if it was torrential rain, it was a blessing because the ground might be soft at least. The girls got to do "games" in the warmth of the sports hall whilst we boys were doing that. I'm small, 5'5". Very fast, but when I got tackled I stayed tackled. I have strong memories of it. Mud, blood, bruises and grazes, burning lungs, the humiliating ritual of the completely open locker room showers afterwards Not the best memories of it. Would you believe, I did not become a rugby fan. 😅
Remember that you are looking at videos titled "hardest hits" etc - not all tackles are this impactful (and many were illegal - at least, now, perhaps not at the time). The reason people like to watch is because it is non-stop action: no spending 5 minutes resetting all the players every time a player goes down from a tackle - they just immediately move the ball on and keep running. These are probably the physically fittest people on the planet.
73 year old, rugby player in my youth. Two concussions necessitating hospital treatment and a knee injury which still gives me trouble. Most of my rugby was played in the 60s and 70s and player welfare was not really a top priority. The modern professional game is very different from the game that I played. The players are heavier, fitter and faster, on the whole and there have been changes in the laws, designed to make it 'safer'. I still love the game. It is the mixture of raw aggression and physical contest, coupled with undoubted skill and, generally, respect for the opponent, which makes it special. Being a member of a team with a shared goal and doing everything in your power not to let your team mates down is a great way of challenging yourself to do your best. Over the past decade, I have been increasingly impressed with the women's game and am a fervent supporter of the Red Roses (England women). I have taken my daughters and granddaughters to quite a few matches and, though they don't play themselves, have loved both the sport, the players and the atmosphere in the stadiums. As a suggestion, have a look here on TH-cam for the 2022 Women's World Cup final between England and New Zealand. You might enjoy it!
There are more serious injuries in North american football largely due to the armour, because a tactic is to go head to head with the helmets. In rugby we charge with the shoulder. Most of the tackles in this film are illegal.
The sport with the highest injury rate is cheerleading. The highest fatality rate used to be horseracing, though every now and then boxing has a particularly bad year.
The Springboks of South Africa 🇿🇦 are the current Rugby World Champions wining in 1995,2007,2019 and 2023. Im South African and rugby in my country united us all regardless of race after apartheid post 1994.
To me, the hits and tackles are the least interesting part of rugby. What is more fun to watch is when there is a free-flowing series of passes followed by a try. To that end, I’d recommend watching a video called: Rugby for NFL fans, or something similar.
Due to concussion and similar injuries, there are two key rules in tackling these days. 1. No tackle above the shoulders. 2. Never move the player more than horizontal (control the descent so they don't land on their neck). (Edit, watching further...) 3. No tackling players in the air! If you break either rule, you no longer take part in the match.
Jonah Lomu, New Zealand all blacks. Weighed 17 stones (238lbs), and could do the 100 metres in just over 10 seconds. The world record at the time was just under 10 seconds. The man was a rugby 🏉 god. And I'm British. 🇬🇧🇨🇦💜
My mate in school (Beef) was obsessed with Jonah Lomu, but he was the British teenage version, one of the fastest in the year and one of the biggest (tall and round) 😂 Get him the ball and he would just dominate 😂
I think for me its when rugby is flowing and fluid it is great but also more tribal, especially when national teams play. You could try next looking at clips of the ex rugby referee Nigel Owens dealing with these man mountains, so great
Retired rugby player (injury recovery takes too long now), started at school. Rugby, for me, is akin to ancient land conflicts fought between two clans or kingdoms on a battlefield, with the idea to outsmart the opposition by moving your team and ball into different areas of the pitch, all whilst pushing forward, and hoping the opposition, whilst attempting to cover and board up gaps, will be unable to defend all areas you advance into. It's very much like a game of chess, which in itself, was originally a game based on and reflecting the battlefield. Rugby is, poetic violence. And BTW, Canada is a known rugby playing nation, even though a second tier country. I guess with your country having British and French as your main settlers and founders, it goes without saying rugby is also present.
If someone is tackled and goes down in Union, the rest of the team can get the ball by pushing the other team off the guy on the ground who has to release the ball. When one of the teams has got the ball, play continues. In league, if you are tackled to the ground. Play stops. The guy stands back up and passes it back between his legs for his team mate behind him and then play resumes. That means that League has less rolling around on the floor so the game is faster to watch and demands a higher level of fitness (?), where as Union is more physical in terms of trying to win the ball off the floor. I hope that makes sense. Please correct me or expand if you want !
The scrum in RL moved to uncontested scrummage for safety ie neck injuries. A lot of this type of videos don’t give a good impression of the actual sport, be it League, which i follow, or Union.
I think you'd get a more accurate impression of Rugby (Union) if you watched a game rather than these most brutal hits videos, which show a lot of illegal tackles. In my view, the top level of the sport has become incredibly dangerous but I would point out that it requires skill and self-discipline as well as physical strength. I only played it a little at school and never fully understood the rules but it can be enjoyable.
Uch, there fine. A quick cold water sponge on a freezing, muddy Scottish field and you wouldn't believe how you bounce back! God, i miss those days. One love from Scotland. 🫡🦁🏴
My dad was a 1st aider for many Welsh Valley rugby teams, it was amazing how quickly players were revived with the "magic sponge". His best line was "if your injured, you can come to me as I can't be bothered to run to you". He was 65 at the time
The University of Canterbury is located in Christchurch, New Zealand ( Crusaders are the team that play there ). Funnily enough, I went to the Christchurch University in Canterbury, Kent.
I remember playing rugby at school and loathed it, in the middle of winter running around in the freezing cold rain and mud getting filthy and then having to get into the freezing cold shower until we turned blue. We never had helmets or any type of protection and regularly came off the field battered and bruised.😮
Played it at school. My home town has a good rugby team, and no football team, so supported it for years. I am far too short to play it beyond school level. It is physical, but intelligent and, sometimes, beautiful.
I was in the school 15, initially as scrum half, later as fly half. For those who do not know, those positions are for the tiny people like me. So, when we tackle the gorillas as shown here we are either courageous or bonkers. ; I was the latter. On one school practice session the 6'4" sports master was piling along and I tackled him. Those of you who understand conservation of momentum will realise that a 10 stone 16 year old tackling a 20 stone adult will not come off well, and I did not. I was found in the hedges adjacent to the pitch, unconscious. But I was expected to be at the competition next day, which I was.
The worst rugby injury (rather than death which has happened..) is a guy got badly tackled and dislocated his hip....The medic ran on and quickly popped his leg back into its socket! The man screamed so loudly he ruptured 2 vocal chords....What had happened was one of his testicle glad slipped into his hip socket in the tackle. When the medic popped his hip back in it had crushed his ball!!!😢😢😢😢😢
We never played Rugby at my school in Ireland, it was Soccer and the GAA Sports, Gaelic Football and Hurling. I would have absolutely loved to have played Rugby.
Some of the hits here would result in lengthy bans these days, particularly when players are hit then drop on their heads (or are planted head-first into the ground, aka spear tackles). Also, leading with the shoulder, no-arms tackles, late hits etc are absolutely not allowed any more (especially with video ref decisions, and they always look worse in slow-mo).
We had to play it at secondary school as all the sports teachers were Welsh. One of the thing with Rugby is that you can't throw the ball forward only backwards. My ploy was to always keep just in front of the ball so no one could pass it to me. It served me well for quite a while. Stupid game hated every second.
League vs Union - simply the two split because originally some teams and players were being paid and were ejected from the Amateur League and so formed Union teams - they have since diverged in rules, and both are now professional Rugby started at Rugby school, and diverged into Union, League, Canadian Football, and American Football
Sorry, but Union was the Amateur game, and League was Professional (originally semi professional). The original divergence happened in UK (England I believe). Union was mainly played in the South by Schools (Public Schools, i.e. wealthy). League was mainly played in the North by works, teams.
Rugby didn't start at Rugby school, its history goes back a lot further than that. The laws were first written down there, that's all the school has to do with it (well it gave it the name as well).
Played it at school in the 70's. A time of just get on with it where injury was an accepted part of the game. A scrum was a place where the bullies could practice their dark arts
Sports at school was very much up to the PE teacher(s). I had two PE teachers: one was an ex paratrooper, the other was a Scottish brick house. They opted for rugby and I hated it. Ages ranged from 11-16 on the same field at the same time. To aid safety, we didn't do full tackles. You just had to place two hands firmly on the torso. But we did do proper scrums and lineouts.
I too had to play at school on a Wednesday afternoon. I often think of it on Wednesdays even now. The most dangerous part, I think, is the scrum where people sometimes get a broken neck and paralysed for life. Enthusiasts were often full backs because they liked to run fast. This is over 65 years ago for me. I remember throwing the ball into the scrum having to say 'coming in colours coming in now'. To be slightly unkind it seemed to me that the people who liked it were not particularly good at anything else. You really did have to wear those ear protectors in the scrum otherwise you would end up with cauliflower ears, and many did! It taught people various things: one being not to lose your temper if someone assaulted you but to give as good as you got if it furthered the game (or should I say 'battle'?)
Some schools do play rugby. My daughter played in her teens. Some parents used to worry about their kids going out. When the ladies front row went out clubbing we tended not to worry too much.
The 6 Nations starts on the 31st. I'd recommend watching at least one match if you can, as you'll likely get a better idea of how the game works. We did play rugby in secondary school (back in the '80s when I was there). It was always played in winter and I will always remember having to play on a completely frozen pitch. I hated it back then, as I was a skinny little nerd and completely not cut out for sports. Nowadays I enjoy watching the 6 Nations, including the women's matches, but that's pretty much as far as it goes.
If possible, watch all of them, then you'll learn so much from the commentators and presenters. I love rugby. Love the 6 nations and want every team to win at least once 😂
Rugby: 30 People playing for 80 minutes, pretending not to be injured, against Football (soccer) 22 People playing for 90 minutes pretending to be injured.
In P.E. at school we played rugby in freezing conditions. Evertime I received the ball I just threw it anywhere , so I didn't get crushed by boys bigger than me 😂😂
I went to a rugby playing school, and I was a soft, sensitive child so rugby scared me, and for most of my school days I opted to play hockey (as in field hockey) instead. But I injured a couple of players through sheer clumsiness, and got nicknamed "killer". In my last year I switched to rugby, and I wasn't very good at it, but I didn't hurt anyone. I enjoy watching rugby because it's a game of skill and tactics as well as physical courage, and I have a team in my home city I can get behind (Ulster). It's particularly fun to go to matches against other Irish provinces, and especially satisfying if we can get a win against Leinster. The difference between union and league. In 1895 rugby split in two because some teams wanted to go professional and others wanted to preserve the amateur ethos. The professionals became rugby league, the amateurs rugby union, and the games diverged over time. Rugby union finally went professional in 1995, but the games were now too different to get back together. Main differences are the number of players on a team (13 in league, 15 in union), the number of points you get for scoring, and what happens after a player is tackled. In rugby league you get to keep the ball for six tackles, heeling it back to a teammate after each tackle, and possession is not contested. If you reach your sixth tackle and haven't scored, possession is given to the other team. In rugby union, the tackled player must release the ball, and possession can be contested, but if you can secure the ball you can keep possession for as many tackles as you can manage. This makes gameplay very different, and players who switch from one to the other can find it very difficult to adjust. Rugby union has more set pieces, which means more specialisation of positions, with some positions suiting size and strength, others speed, agility and ball skills. In rugby league, everybody's big, strong and quick, and does more or less the same job.
The great thing about rugby is that no matter your size or shape there's a position for you.The big strong guys are called forwards and their job is to win possession of the ball. The quick, skillful players are called backs. My PE teacher played scrum half for Bristol when it was still an amateur game (It only went professional in 1995). He always complemented me on the speed of my pass. Too right. When the opposition's huge No.8, twice my size was steaming around the scrum aiming to flatten me I got rid of that ball asap!😁 I rarely got hit hard though as I was one of those small, quick, agile kids with blinding acceleration, a great side step and dodging ability. Usually when the opposition players tried to tackle me they either missed or just got a handful of my jersey and would swing me around.😄 What I loved about rugby was the chance to run, dodge and show off my speed and score tries. I loved accelerating through a gap, side-stepping a couple of guys, leaving them on their arses with a sudden change of direction, then putting on the afterburners and leaving everyone for dead. Great fun!😀
I've played rugby for 15 years. Sadly retired now due to my body being to beating up and started getting more and more injuries towards the end. I love the game and fun to play and met some great friends from playing the game. Only sport in the world I know where you be knocking lumps off each other on the pitch and have a laugh and joke about it in the bar after the game with opposition.
I grew up in the South Okanogan of British Columbia, and we played rugby at our school, and not football. It was fun! As for a manly: my ex's female cousin played on an all-woman league in Montreal.
Of course we know where Rugby was invented, the same place most sports (including baseball) have been invented. You would be surprised at the history of American Football, especially where it came from. Rugby Explained for American Football Fans is a good video to watch as it goes into the history of American Football. Both versions of Rugby was developed in England, League was a breakaway (from Union) because working class players wanted to get paid. Whilst Union is by far the biggest of the two, League is the prevalent version in Australia in particular but there are other areas in the world as well. I played both versions, but mostly league, growing up in Australia. Great fun!
Rugby and sports in general have done a lot to improve safety in recent years with concussion protocols and so much more to minimise the risk in the sport but every sport carries some risk the one that always stands out to me for safety improvements in sport is in F1 we had the majorly heart stopping moment of a car going up in a fireball and the driver Grosjean climbing out the car not only alive but with ‘only’ minor burns to his hand I watched that incident live and no one likes to see something like that and everything went silent just in shock but thanks to tireless safety improvements it’s as safe as ever
I was at school in the 1970s. I hated winter PE lessons, when you got a random selection of rugby, soccer, or cross-country running. Rugby was the worst: On top of the usual bone-crushing cold, you had to basically hold your own in a series of brutal gang-muggings. =:o(
Played Rugby Union as long as I could , then coached it, loved it. Now watch my sons loving it. Don't miss training twice a week through the winter though
So there are now issues with concussions being found, but, in general terms there are actually more issues with injuries in the NFL I believe. Tackling technique is taught so generally good tackles are hard but no real injury. In a lot of these videos there are foul tackles that will be penalised. If you look closely the tackled person will get straight up. I wrote this before you covered concussion
The University of Canterbury is in Christchurch New Zealand. The university in the Canterbury that you're thinking of is the University of Kent (Not to be confused with Kent State University in Kent, Ohio).
I played for 30 years, 10 - 40, I reluctantly had to give up because the length of time to recover began to exceed the length of time between matches! Now, 25 years later, I'm not sure if my aches and pains are due to age or those regular pummelings. The first Rugby match in North America was between McGill and Harvard Universities in 1874
I used to play in secondary school/high school and its hella fun! The pain gives you a dopamine hit and so the roughness becomes fun after a few games. It's worth mentioning that the Women hit just as hard and there is a great compilation of the womens hardest hits too.
Gives a whole new meaning to the word Crunch!!, the only thing I ever had anything to do with in school and rugby was a compulsory rugby shirt as part of our PE kit..... one major difference with Union & League is the number of players on the pitch. Union 15 League 13 (That isn`t a score by the way)... well done for getting through without hurting anything.....🙂
In school I played rugby and I was tackled by two players, when I went down one player kicked me in the head and my ear was half ripped off, my Sports Master shouted "Stop whining boy it's just a scratch " ,Hospital and 12 stitches later .
Rugby League is amazing and absolutely huge in Australia and the Pacific. The NRL (Rugby League competition in Australia/New Zealand and soon Papua New Guinea) is the biggest club rugby competition of either code of Rugby. The NRLW is the women's competition and is growing each year. The NRLW actually outrated the Men's Super Rugby competition (Rugby Union competition) in Australia. The female athletes are amazing and only getting better each year. State of Origin is a representative game between two huge Rugby League states of Queensland and New South Wales. The three game series is one of the most watched events in Australia alongside the NRL Grand Final and AFL Grand Final. Basically all three events are like our super bowls. There is also a Women's State of Origin series which is played with big crowds and has more than a million people tune in to watch.
I always enjoyed playing rugby at school (back in the 1960s), when I was right prop (a position depending more on brute force than subtlety!). I know it looks like an uncontrolled brawl but I would argue it involves more strategy and tactics than football (real football, not handegg).
When I was at school (long ago), rugby football was obligatory every autumn term for 6 years. No, we didn’t wear any protective clothing. However, I wasn’t a keen player, so I wasn’t in a school team, so the results of my games didn’t really matter, and we didn’t take them seriously. We weren’t particularly muscular, and didn’t tackle each other with the sort of violence shown in this video. I don’t remember any injuries in our games. There may have been some occasional injuries in the more serious games played by the school teams. Since leaving school, I’ve never played that sport again.
We played Rugby at school during the 70s. I never really thought about getting hurt on the pitch, it was just wanting to score at the opposing end with a try. If you got taken down then you would just get up and carry on with the game. It's not as though we were all bulked up like the adults were, at most you could get a few bruises and maybe a nose bleed. You should check out the women playing!
I’ve played rugby at an amateur level (and 5 years semi-pro) for 30 years as an adult. I have been knocked out 3 times (if I recall correctly!) dislocated both shoulders and compressed my spine. Also about 30 stitches across a few different occasions. Still playing! Most lads I started with retired by 35. My brother had to finish at 25 because he was knackered. I had a friend who led with his head too much and in one season was knocked out 6 times. He retired on medical advice. It is a lot better regulated in terms of injuries now than it was when I started. Coaches are now far more likely to pull a player if they are injured, head collisions are assessed and that sort of thing. It’s a silly game, but I’ll miss it when I finally give up, 50+ and not yet out.
There are two forms of Rugby. Rugby Union and Rugby League. When you say Rugby on its own most people think you’re talking about Rugby Union. Rugby League is the form closest to American Football as in Rugby League you have limited tackles/downs whereas in Rugby Union they play in phases. I was educated at a Rugby (Union) based school so we played Rugby (Union) from a very early age. We also played British Bulldog.
I would like to see a rugby team put on the nfl pads and helmet and play their game and then see the nfl team take off their pads and play rugby i think rugby team would win both matches
Experiments were tried with Rugby Union and League in the late 90s/early 00s and, lo-and-behold, the team won the match of the sport they specialised in! Who would have guessed. There is no way a Rugby Union professional team would win an American Football match and vice versa. There is too much technically going on. If Rugby players were that superior, LRZ would be starting in an NFL team (being considered a freak of the sport in RU).
Hey Alana, I played rugby throughout school and for local club as a kid throughout adulthood, (Never wore any protective gear apart from a mouth guard) my knees gave up before the age of 25, a great sport, OK yes it is very physical, perfect for young men to blow off steam. The game is full of respect for the rules the referee and the opposing team. Post match festivities are great, although you have knocked 7 bells out of each other for 90mins you drink beer with the opposing team for the rest of the evening... Rugby league is more like American football, with a limited amount of tackles /downs, Rugby Union is more free flowing. For a change of pace did you watch your fellow Canadian Mike Downie of Downie live travels by boat, he books a narrowboat on the canals, well worth a look.
I played rugby for about 15 years through school and for my town, the worst injury i had was a broken nose (my own fault) rugby is a very well run sport, from a young age you are taught how to tackle, where to put your head etc the video shows the rare times it goes wrong or it is international standard, you should watch the six nations on tv in Febuary and see how fast and skilled the game really is.
The University of Canterbury is based in Christchurch New Zealand. The University of Kent at Canterbury is actually in Canterbury. Christchurch in New Zealand was established as a city for specifically Anglican settlers as New Zealand’s colonisation up to then overwhelmingly Scottish and Presbyterian. The City of Christchurch New Zealand is named after Christ Church Cathedral in Canterbury,Kent the mother see of the Anglican Communion. When Kent got its university in 1965 the name Canterbury University was already gone,hence the alternative name. To add to the confusion there’s another university in Canterbury,Kent called Canterbury Christchurch University.
This would not have been my choice of video for anyone being first introduced to rugby. It gives entirely the wrong impression of the game. It is like introducing someone to Canada by showing only Nunavut, or to sailing by featuring only shipwrecks. I was a third generation RU player at school. Later, five of my sons played. 14 of my 17 grandsons play today. Between us all, we've had twice as many significant injuries, requiring a hospital visit, from horse riding, playing lacrosse, or from surfing/boarding/cycling than from rugby.
There is a video on TH-cam called "Rugby Explained For American Football Fans". That might be helpful to see the similarities and differences between them. I love rugby. On the 31st Jan the Six Nations competition begins. It's between England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France and Italy so there's plenty of rivalry :) There have been changes to make rugby safer such as "head injury assessments" (which are done when a player has taken a nasty knock to the head) which checks for signs of concussion or head injury and the player cannot return to the field unless they pass. In elite levels of the sport there are now sensors in the players' gum shields that transmits real time information to coaches and doctors who can monitor the forces that are acting on each player's head. There are numerous rules to make tackling safer: no tackling a player who is in the air, no tackling a player at neck of head height etc. I know for the tiny amount of time I played rugby at school one of the things we learnt was how to fall so as to avoid injury.
😊I played rugby at school back in the 60's as a 10 year old, no helmets no padding, just boots shorts and a rugby shirt in all weather's. I preferred football but we weren't allowed to play that as a sport. Ahh the good old days😊😅
Hi Allana. I don't know about these days, but when I was at school in the 80's everyone who was elected to play Rugby had to train and participate in the local school league games. I was unfortunate enough to get selected. My main sport at school was swimming so the injuries from Saturday matches sometimes impacted on my swimming training. I did enjoy the camaraderie and when we won on the very odd occasion it was great. It is brutal though. Even at school level. Not sure about these days though. 👍🙂
Many years ago, I was in economy on a plane with the Tongan Rugby team. No idea how on earth they got int heir seats. Just massive men! Lovely and polite though!
Its the love for the game Alanna, we still cringe at tackles like you was watching. At school it is played during the autumn season. Darts not a sport, you tell that to the people who play it and the fans that watch it.
There is a hospital pass in rugby where you pass to someone when you know they are going to be tackled hard. It's a game for people who don't care about injuries which makes it better IMO. Its a much more social sport than football, we don't get the hooligans that football attracts. You should attend a local club, it's a game that only gets better.
Rugby, tt. The thrill comes from seeing the amazing things these people can do. Accidents, injury and even death is a risk of doing it but that is not what most people want to see. They want to see the absolute best going as hard as they can and close fight for the win. The popularity of hardest hits and crash compilations is probably as much from non fans of the sport. Extreme things are often popular for their shock value, fans are there enjoying the whole game not just a clip reel.
I love the physicality of the game however I love the skill of the game even more, when you see a try perfectly executed or a player who can evade the defence and score or create a try then I don't think there is anything better in a sporting context.
There are 2 sorts of rugby, league and union. Rugby league is played in the north in Lancashire and Yorkshire. I think their is a video about the different rules on rugby. The best thing to do is watch a rugby game or the highlights to get an idea of the game. Great reaction tho.
We used to play rugby in school back in the '80s. (Rugby is a public school where the sport originated but I was a comprehensive kid). As a teen I loved going to Twickers in the summer, where we knew a gap in the fence to get in for free. Lots of free beer from generous adult fans too. Rugby sevens were great. Also hilarious were the streakers. The stewards were quite brutal with the males, but (quite rightly) sheepish with the females. I hated actual football (soccer) games as the environment was completely different. Think of Hillsborough. In Twickenham we were not all caged in and could even sit in the field and enjoy the sun and the game.
I used to play Rugby at school --- one time the Teacher was on the opposite team, I tackled him --- Or rather bounced off him and was stunned for about 30 secs. Yeah, if you can't break into a sweat --- it ain't a sport.
Whereas union has 15 players to a team, league has 13. In league, each team can make 10 substitutions during a game as opposed to a maximum of eight in union. Scoring is different too. A try in union is worth five points, it's four in league although a conversion will earn you an extra two points in either code.
I played rugby at school up to the age of about 14 when I stopped growing and everyone else carried on - you definitely don't want to be the smallest person on a rugby field!
My high school had a women's rugby team - everyone loved it. I thought it looked way too scary and ouchie. My only other exposure to rugby is when Ross was playing it to impress Emily on Friends. I don't understand how helmets aren't used in this game.
In secondary school rugby is usually played during the winter in either pouring rain or snow while the PE teacher stands around in a massive coat telling you it's not that cold there's no reason to stop playing.
And to answer your question, I'd choose to fight a marathon runner, they have to stay real slim for that sort of running
I hated PE at school not being interested in any kind of sports, but I enjoyed rugby as we used to find the muddiest part of the field and practice tackles
I remember playing in hail the size of chick peas once.
I was on the wing and only touched the ball once all game. When we went off my lips were blue and I'm fairly certain I was in the early stages of hypothermia.🥶
Exactly, but for me it was primary school. My secondary school didn't care much for sport at all, but my primary school headmaster was a big rugby fan. So there we were, 10 or 11 years old, out there in gale-force winds, snow, the freezing cold, the ground rock hard. Frankly if it was torrential rain, it was a blessing because the ground might be soft at least.
The girls got to do "games" in the warmth of the sports hall whilst we boys were doing that.
I'm small, 5'5". Very fast, but when I got tackled I stayed tackled. I have strong memories of it. Mud, blood, bruises and grazes, burning lungs, the humiliating ritual of the completely open locker room showers afterwards
Not the best memories of it. Would you believe, I did not become a rugby fan. 😅
Remember that you are looking at videos titled "hardest hits" etc - not all tackles are this impactful (and many were illegal - at least, now, perhaps not at the time). The reason people like to watch is because it is non-stop action: no spending 5 minutes resetting all the players every time a player goes down from a tackle - they just immediately move the ball on and keep running. These are probably the physically fittest people on the planet.
There was a fight outside a pub at closing time and suddenly a rugby game broke out.
I'm from Fiji, it's our national sport. played rugby from age 6 to 33. loved every second of it, wouldn't change a thing
73 year old, rugby player in my youth. Two concussions necessitating hospital treatment and a knee injury which still gives me trouble. Most of my rugby was played in the 60s and 70s and player welfare was not really a top priority. The modern professional game is very different from the game that I played. The players are heavier, fitter and faster, on the whole and there have been changes in the laws, designed to make it 'safer'.
I still love the game. It is the mixture of raw aggression and physical contest, coupled with undoubted skill and, generally, respect for the opponent, which makes it special. Being a member of a team with a shared goal and doing everything in your power not to let your team mates down is a great way of challenging yourself to do your best.
Over the past decade, I have been increasingly impressed with the women's game and am a fervent supporter of the Red Roses (England women). I have taken my daughters and granddaughters to quite a few matches and, though they don't play themselves, have loved both the sport, the players and the atmosphere in the stadiums. As a suggestion, have a look here on TH-cam for the 2022 Women's World Cup final between England and New Zealand. You might enjoy it!
I'll check it out, thank you!
@@AdventuresAndNaps I should also have said that the Canada women's team is very highly ranked in the sport and aren't far off the Red Roses.
Ilona Maher is super star here in America.
Definition of the game of rugby " A game of thugs played by gentlemen", as opposed to football which is the opposite
To put it in simple terms, NFL is a game where occasionally a fight breaks out and rugby is a fight where occasionally a game breaks ot
Fight breaks out..🤣...she's Canadian ever been to a Hockey game?
Nonsense
There are more serious injuries in North american football largely due to the armour, because a tactic is to go head to head with the helmets.
In rugby we charge with the shoulder.
Most of the tackles in this film are illegal.
Yep and Rugby is getting big in America now.
The sport with the highest injury rate is cheerleading. The highest fatality rate used to be horseracing, though every now and then boxing has a particularly bad year.
"Maybe a golfer?" The world needs more Alanna.
The Springboks of South Africa 🇿🇦 are the current Rugby World Champions wining in 1995,2007,2019 and 2023. Im South African and rugby in my country united us all regardless of race after apartheid post 1994.
To me, the hits and tackles are the least interesting part of rugby. What is more fun to watch is when there is a free-flowing series of passes followed by a try. To that end, I’d recommend watching a video called: Rugby for NFL fans, or something similar.
Or the MLR the American Rugby League.
Soccer is 90 minutes of players pretending they're injured .
Rugby Is 80 minutes of players claiming they're fine with blood pouring out of them
Due to concussion and similar injuries, there are two key rules in tackling these days.
1. No tackle above the shoulders.
2. Never move the player more than horizontal (control the descent so they don't land on their neck).
(Edit, watching further...)
3. No tackling players in the air!
If you break either rule, you no longer take part in the match.
Jonah Lomu, New Zealand all blacks. Weighed 17 stones (238lbs), and could do the 100 metres in just over 10 seconds. The world record at the time was just under 10 seconds. The man was a rugby 🏉 god. And I'm British. 🇬🇧🇨🇦💜
The haka at his funeral made me ball my eyes out. One of the most moving things I've ever seen.
My mate in school (Beef) was obsessed with Jonah Lomu, but he was the British teenage version, one of the fastest in the year and one of the biggest (tall and round) 😂 Get him the ball and he would just dominate 😂
Wasn't Lomu a Tongan, like most playing for the all blacks? Fiji, Somoa, Tonga
Agreed; from a South African
The absolute beast of a machine that was Jonah Lomu!!!
The RWC ‘95 no stopping him!!
Gone to soon!!!
I think for me its when rugby is flowing and fluid it is great but also more tribal, especially when national teams play. You could try next looking at clips of the ex rugby referee Nigel Owens dealing with these man mountains, so great
Retired rugby player (injury recovery takes too long now), started at school. Rugby, for me, is akin to ancient land conflicts fought between two clans or kingdoms on a battlefield, with the idea to outsmart the opposition by moving your team and ball into different areas of the pitch, all whilst pushing forward, and hoping the opposition, whilst attempting to cover and board up gaps, will be unable to defend all areas you advance into.
It's very much like a game of chess, which in itself, was originally a game based on and reflecting the battlefield.
Rugby is, poetic violence.
And BTW, Canada is a known rugby playing nation, even though a second tier country. I guess with your country having British and French as your main settlers and founders, it goes without saying rugby is also present.
Rugby is pretty much the reason why there is football in Europe.
If someone is tackled and goes down in Union, the rest of the team can get the ball by pushing the other team off the guy on the ground who has to release the ball. When one of the teams has got the ball, play continues. In league, if you are tackled to the ground. Play stops. The guy stands back up and passes it back between his legs for his team mate behind him and then play resumes. That means that League has less rolling around on the floor so the game is faster to watch and demands a higher level of fitness (?), where as Union is more physical in terms of trying to win the ball off the floor. I hope that makes sense. Please correct me or expand if you want !
The scrum in RL moved to uncontested scrummage for safety ie neck injuries. A lot of this type of videos don’t give a good impression of the actual sport, be it League, which i follow, or Union.
I think you'd get a more accurate impression of Rugby (Union) if you watched a game rather than these most brutal hits videos, which show a lot of illegal tackles. In my view, the top level of the sport has become incredibly dangerous but I would point out that it requires skill and self-discipline as well as physical strength. I only played it a little at school and never fully understood the rules but it can be enjoyable.
Uch, there fine. A quick cold water sponge on a freezing, muddy Scottish field and you wouldn't believe how you bounce back! God, i miss those days. One love from Scotland. 🫡🦁🏴
My dad was a 1st aider for many Welsh Valley rugby teams, it was amazing how quickly players were revived with the "magic sponge". His best line was "if your injured, you can come to me as I can't be bothered to run to you". He was 65 at the time
For a different rugby experience watch Nigel Owens being a referee. He was the first professional referee to come out as gay.
And earned everyone's respect as a ref "Christopher" just like a frustrated dad would!
@@daftirishmarej1827 I remember that, a classic. Or the one during a line-out, where he shouted "I'm straighter then that".
The University of Canterbury is located in Christchurch, New Zealand ( Crusaders are the team that play there ). Funnily enough, I went to the Christchurch University in Canterbury, Kent.
I remember playing rugby at school and loathed it, in the middle of winter running around in the freezing cold rain and mud getting filthy and then having to get into the freezing cold shower until we turned blue. We never had helmets or any type of protection and regularly came off the field battered and bruised.😮
Damn it seems like some rugby players need jet engines now like what NFL players are using in cold weather.
Whilst the PE teacher in their massive coat and warm gloves told you it wasn't that cold stop moaning
Played it at school. My home town has a good rugby team, and no football team, so supported it for years. I am far too short to play it beyond school level. It is physical, but intelligent and, sometimes, beautiful.
I was in the school 15, initially as scrum half, later as fly half. For those who do not know, those positions are for the tiny people like me. So, when we tackle the gorillas as shown here we are either courageous or bonkers. ; I was the latter. On one school practice session the 6'4" sports master was piling along and I tackled him. Those of you who understand conservation of momentum will realise that a 10 stone 16 year old tackling a 20 stone adult will not come off well, and I did not. I was found in the hedges adjacent to the pitch, unconscious. But I was expected to be at the competition next day, which I was.
We had to play rugby at school from the age of 11 until 16, I think every school did the same, loved it🙂👍
"Rugby Is A Game For Barbarians Played By Gentlemen. Football Is A Game For Gentlemen Played By Barbarians"
The worst rugby injury (rather than death which has happened..) is a guy got badly tackled and dislocated his hip....The medic ran on and quickly popped his leg back into its socket! The man screamed so loudly he ruptured 2 vocal chords....What had happened was one of his testicle glad slipped into his hip socket in the tackle. When the medic popped his hip back in it had crushed his ball!!!😢😢😢😢😢
We never played Rugby at my school in Ireland, it was Soccer and the GAA Sports, Gaelic Football and Hurling. I would have absolutely loved to have played Rugby.
Hurling is an awesome sport...seen it a few times on tv. Love it.
Some of the hits here would result in lengthy bans these days, particularly when players are hit then drop on their heads (or are planted head-first into the ground, aka spear tackles). Also, leading with the shoulder, no-arms tackles, late hits etc are absolutely not allowed any more (especially with video ref decisions, and they always look worse in slow-mo).
We had to play it at secondary school as all the sports teachers were Welsh. One of the thing with Rugby is that you can't throw the ball forward only backwards. My ploy was to always keep just in front of the ball so no one could pass it to me. It served me well for quite a while. Stupid game hated every second.
The player who made the tackle no. 3 in the first video, Brian Lima, was nicknamed 'the chiropractor' because of his hard hits.
He would not have made it in current rugby.He liked to tackle around the neck.Dirtiest tackler i ever saw.He was out to hurt the other player.
League vs Union - simply the two split because originally some teams and players were being paid and were ejected from the Amateur League and so formed Union teams - they have since diverged in rules, and both are now professional
Rugby started at Rugby school, and diverged into Union, League, Canadian Football, and American Football
Sorry, but Union was the Amateur game, and League was Professional (originally semi professional).
The original divergence happened in UK (England I believe).
Union was mainly played in the South by Schools (Public Schools, i.e. wealthy).
League was mainly played in the North by works, teams.
Rugby didn't start at Rugby school, its history goes back a lot further than that. The laws were first written down there, that's all the school has to do with it (well it gave it the name as well).
Soccer is a gentleman's game played by ruffians; rugby is a ruffians game played by gentlemen.
Played it at school in the 70's. A time of just get on with it where injury was an accepted part of the game. A scrum was a place where the bullies could practice their dark arts
Sports at school was very much up to the PE teacher(s). I had two PE teachers: one was an ex paratrooper, the other was a Scottish brick house. They opted for rugby and I hated it. Ages ranged from 11-16 on the same field at the same time. To aid safety, we didn't do full tackles. You just had to place two hands firmly on the torso. But we did do proper scrums and lineouts.
I too had to play at school on a Wednesday afternoon. I often think of it on Wednesdays even now. The most dangerous part, I think, is the scrum where people sometimes get a broken neck and paralysed for life. Enthusiasts were often full backs because they liked to run fast. This is over 65 years ago for me. I remember throwing the ball into the scrum having to say 'coming in colours coming in now'. To be slightly unkind it seemed to me that the people who liked it were not particularly good at anything else. You really did have to wear those ear protectors in the scrum otherwise you would end up with cauliflower ears, and many did! It taught people various things: one being not to lose your temper if someone assaulted you but to give as good as you got if it furthered the game (or should I say 'battle'?)
Some schools do play rugby. My daughter played in her teens. Some parents used to worry about their kids going out. When the ladies front row went out clubbing we tended not to worry too much.
Soccer, a gentlemen’s game played by hooligans Rugby, a hooligans game played by gentlemen
The 6 Nations starts on the 31st. I'd recommend watching at least one match if you can, as you'll likely get a better idea of how the game works.
We did play rugby in secondary school (back in the '80s when I was there). It was always played in winter and I will always remember having to play on a completely frozen pitch. I hated it back then, as I was a skinny little nerd and completely not cut out for sports. Nowadays I enjoy watching the 6 Nations, including the women's matches, but that's pretty much as far as it goes.
Watching rugby at the pub is a special thing, at least when your team gives a performance anyway!
If possible, watch all of them, then you'll learn so much from the commentators and presenters.
I love rugby. Love the 6 nations and want every team to win at least once 😂
Also MLR in America starts around March.
Rugby: 30 People playing for 80 minutes, pretending not to be injured, against Football (soccer) 22 People playing for 90 minutes pretending to be injured.
In P.E. at school we played rugby in freezing conditions. Evertime I received the ball I just threw it anywhere , so I didn't get crushed by boys bigger than me 😂😂
I went to a rugby playing school, and I was a soft, sensitive child so rugby scared me, and for most of my school days I opted to play hockey (as in field hockey) instead. But I injured a couple of players through sheer clumsiness, and got nicknamed "killer". In my last year I switched to rugby, and I wasn't very good at it, but I didn't hurt anyone. I enjoy watching rugby because it's a game of skill and tactics as well as physical courage, and I have a team in my home city I can get behind (Ulster). It's particularly fun to go to matches against other Irish provinces, and especially satisfying if we can get a win against Leinster.
The difference between union and league. In 1895 rugby split in two because some teams wanted to go professional and others wanted to preserve the amateur ethos. The professionals became rugby league, the amateurs rugby union, and the games diverged over time. Rugby union finally went professional in 1995, but the games were now too different to get back together. Main differences are the number of players on a team (13 in league, 15 in union), the number of points you get for scoring, and what happens after a player is tackled. In rugby league you get to keep the ball for six tackles, heeling it back to a teammate after each tackle, and possession is not contested. If you reach your sixth tackle and haven't scored, possession is given to the other team. In rugby union, the tackled player must release the ball, and possession can be contested, but if you can secure the ball you can keep possession for as many tackles as you can manage. This makes gameplay very different, and players who switch from one to the other can find it very difficult to adjust. Rugby union has more set pieces, which means more specialisation of positions, with some positions suiting size and strength, others speed, agility and ball skills. In rugby league, everybody's big, strong and quick, and does more or less the same job.
The great thing about rugby is that no matter your size or shape there's a position for you.The big strong guys are called forwards and their job is to win possession of the ball. The quick, skillful players are called backs.
My PE teacher played scrum half for Bristol when it was still an amateur game (It only went professional in 1995). He always complemented me on the speed of my pass. Too right. When the opposition's huge No.8, twice my size was steaming around the scrum aiming to flatten me I got rid of that ball asap!😁
I rarely got hit hard though as I was one of those small, quick, agile kids with blinding acceleration, a great side step and dodging ability. Usually when the opposition players tried to tackle me they either missed or just got a handful of my jersey and would swing me around.😄
What I loved about rugby was the chance to run, dodge and show off my speed and score tries. I loved accelerating through a gap, side-stepping a couple of guys, leaving them on their arses with a sudden change of direction, then putting on the afterburners and leaving everyone for dead. Great fun!😀
I've played rugby for 15 years. Sadly retired now due to my body being to beating up and started getting more and more injuries towards the end. I love the game and fun to play and met some great friends from playing the game. Only sport in the world I know where you be knocking lumps off each other on the pitch and have a laugh and joke about it in the bar after the game with opposition.
Landing on your head is actually best part of watching and playing rugby
I grew up in the South Okanogan of British Columbia, and we played rugby at our school, and not football. It was fun! As for a manly: my ex's female cousin played on an all-woman league in Montreal.
Great you talked about the injuries mid way through
Of course we know where Rugby was invented, the same place most sports (including baseball) have been invented. You would be surprised at the history of American Football, especially where it came from. Rugby Explained for American Football Fans is a good video to watch as it goes into the history of American Football.
Both versions of Rugby was developed in England, League was a breakaway (from Union) because working class players wanted to get paid.
Whilst Union is by far the biggest of the two, League is the prevalent version in Australia in particular but there are other areas in the world as well.
I played both versions, but mostly league, growing up in Australia. Great fun!
Rugby and sports in general have done a lot to improve safety in recent years with concussion protocols and so much more to minimise the risk in the sport but every sport carries some risk the one that always stands out to me for safety improvements in sport is in F1 we had the majorly heart stopping moment of a car going up in a fireball and the driver Grosjean climbing out the car not only alive but with ‘only’ minor burns to his hand I watched that incident live and no one likes to see something like that and everything went silent just in shock but thanks to tireless safety improvements it’s as safe as ever
I was at school in the 1970s. I hated winter PE lessons, when you got a random selection of rugby, soccer, or cross-country running. Rugby was the worst: On top of the usual bone-crushing cold, you had to basically hold your own in a series of brutal gang-muggings. =:o(
Played Rugby Union as long as I could , then coached it, loved it. Now watch my sons loving it. Don't miss training twice a week through the winter though
So there are now issues with concussions being found, but, in general terms there are actually more issues with injuries in the NFL I believe. Tackling technique is taught so generally good tackles are hard but no real injury. In a lot of these videos there are foul tackles that will be penalised. If you look closely the tackled person will get straight up.
I wrote this before you covered concussion
Yep there's way more issues with concussions in the NFL than in Rugby and the NFL has since tried to cover it up.
The University of Canterbury is in Christchurch New Zealand. The university in the Canterbury that you're thinking of is the University of Kent (Not to be confused with Kent State University in Kent, Ohio).
I played for 30 years, 10 - 40, I reluctantly had to give up because the length of time to recover began to exceed the length of time between matches! Now, 25 years later, I'm not sure if my aches and pains are due to age or those regular pummelings. The first Rugby match in North America was between McGill and Harvard Universities in 1874
I used to play in secondary school/high school and its hella fun! The pain gives you a dopamine hit and so the roughness becomes fun after a few games.
It's worth mentioning that the Women hit just as hard and there is a great compilation of the womens hardest hits too.
LOL. No they don't.
I can always remember how long I've watched your channel, since I first saw your videos when you'd only been there six years.
Thank you for sticking around! 🙏🏻
@@AdventuresAndNapsYou're welcome.
Love love love rugby played loads when younger and my son plays now! Yes we played at school
Loved playing rugby at school!
Gives a whole new meaning to the word Crunch!!, the only thing I ever had anything to do with in school and rugby was a compulsory rugby shirt as part of our PE kit..... one major difference with Union & League is the number of players on the pitch. Union 15 League 13 (That isn`t a score by the way)... well done for getting through without hurting anything.....🙂
In school I played rugby and I was tackled by two players, when I went down one player kicked me in the head and my ear was half ripped off, my Sports Master shouted "Stop whining boy it's just a scratch " ,Hospital and 12 stitches later .
Rugby League is amazing and absolutely huge in Australia and the Pacific. The NRL (Rugby League competition in Australia/New Zealand and soon Papua New Guinea) is the biggest club rugby competition of either code of Rugby.
The NRLW is the women's competition and is growing each year. The NRLW actually outrated the Men's Super Rugby competition (Rugby Union competition) in Australia. The female athletes are amazing and only getting better each year.
State of Origin is a representative game between two huge Rugby League states of Queensland and New South Wales. The three game series is one of the most watched events in Australia alongside the NRL Grand Final and AFL Grand Final. Basically all three events are like our super bowls. There is also a Women's State of Origin series which is played with big crowds and has more than a million people tune in to watch.
I always enjoyed playing rugby at school (back in the 1960s), when I was right prop (a position depending more on brute force than subtlety!). I know it looks like an uncontrolled brawl but I would argue it involves more strategy and tactics than football (real football, not handegg).
Great video Alanna! I used to play rugby in school. It was a great way to get rid of any aggression I had lol.
Thanks for watching!
When I was at school (long ago), rugby football was obligatory every autumn term for 6 years. No, we didn’t wear any protective clothing. However, I wasn’t a keen player, so I wasn’t in a school team, so the results of my games didn’t really matter, and we didn’t take them seriously. We weren’t particularly muscular, and didn’t tackle each other with the sort of violence shown in this video. I don’t remember any injuries in our games. There may have been some occasional injuries in the more serious games played by the school teams. Since leaving school, I’ve never played that sport again.
Have you ever watched the sport "Hurling"?
It's quite something to see someone with a traumatic dislocation get it popped back in on the pitch.
I'm enjoying the new Adventures and Naps Extreme Sport series! 😂
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@@AdventuresAndNaps Does that mean the Atherstone Ball Game is next? oh boy
@@theshiftybloke4672 Cheese chasing first I feel.
@ Okay, that's a more reasonable next step!
Violent and aggressive on pitch but watch after match the respect is second to none
We played Rugby at school during the 70s. I never really thought about getting hurt on the pitch, it was just wanting to score at the opposing end with a try. If you got taken down then you would just get up and carry on with the game. It's not as though we were all bulked up like the adults were, at most you could get a few bruises and maybe a nose bleed. You should check out the women playing!
I’ve played rugby at an amateur level (and 5 years semi-pro) for 30 years as an adult. I have been knocked out 3 times (if I recall correctly!) dislocated both shoulders and compressed my spine. Also about 30 stitches across a few different occasions. Still playing! Most lads I started with retired by 35. My brother had to finish at 25 because he was knackered. I had a friend who led with his head too much and in one season was knocked out 6 times. He retired on medical advice. It is a lot better regulated in terms of injuries now than it was when I started. Coaches are now far more likely to pull a player if they are injured, head collisions are assessed and that sort of thing. It’s a silly game, but I’ll miss it when I finally give up, 50+ and not yet out.
There are two forms of Rugby. Rugby Union and Rugby League. When you say Rugby on its own most people think you’re talking about Rugby Union. Rugby League is the form closest to American Football as in Rugby League you have limited tackles/downs whereas in Rugby Union they play in phases. I was educated at a Rugby (Union) based school so we played Rugby (Union) from a very early age. We also played British Bulldog.
I would like to see a rugby team put on the nfl pads and helmet and play their game and then see the nfl team take off their pads and play rugby i think rugby team would win both matches
Experiments were tried with Rugby Union and League in the late 90s/early 00s and, lo-and-behold, the team won the match of the sport they specialised in! Who would have guessed. There is no way a Rugby Union professional team would win an American Football match and vice versa. There is too much technically going on. If Rugby players were that superior, LRZ would be starting in an NFL team (being considered a freak of the sport in RU).
Apart from when the leauge boys played 7s
Hey Alana, I played rugby throughout school and for local club as a kid throughout adulthood, (Never wore any protective gear apart from a mouth guard) my knees gave up before the age of 25, a great sport, OK yes it is very physical, perfect for young men to blow off steam. The game is full of respect for the rules the referee and the opposing team. Post match festivities are great, although you have knocked 7 bells out of each other for 90mins you drink beer with the opposing team for the rest of the evening... Rugby league is more like American football, with a limited amount of tackles /downs, Rugby Union is more free flowing. For a change of pace did you watch your fellow Canadian Mike Downie of Downie live travels by boat, he books a narrowboat on the canals, well worth a look.
I played rugby for about 15 years through school and for my town, the worst injury i had was a broken nose (my own fault) rugby is a very well run sport, from a young age you are taught how to tackle, where to put your head etc the video shows the rare times it goes wrong or it is international standard, you should watch the six nations on tv in Febuary and see how fast and skilled the game really is.
The University of Canterbury is based in Christchurch New Zealand. The University of Kent at Canterbury is actually in Canterbury. Christchurch in New Zealand was established as a city for specifically Anglican settlers as New Zealand’s colonisation up to then overwhelmingly Scottish and Presbyterian. The City of Christchurch New Zealand is named after Christ Church Cathedral in Canterbury,Kent the mother see of the Anglican Communion. When Kent got its university in 1965 the name Canterbury University was already gone,hence the alternative name. To add to the confusion there’s another university in Canterbury,Kent called Canterbury Christchurch University.
I played Rugby Union at school and absolutely hated it! I very rarely watch it to this day.
This would not have been my choice of video for anyone being first introduced to rugby. It gives entirely the wrong impression of the game. It is like introducing someone to Canada by showing only Nunavut, or to sailing by featuring only shipwrecks. I was a third generation RU player at school. Later, five of my sons played. 14 of my 17 grandsons play today. Between us all, we've had twice as many significant injuries, requiring a hospital visit, from horse riding, playing lacrosse, or from surfing/boarding/cycling than from rugby.
There is a video on TH-cam called "Rugby Explained For American Football Fans". That might be helpful to see the similarities and differences between them.
I love rugby. On the 31st Jan the Six Nations competition begins. It's between England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France and Italy so there's plenty of rivalry :)
There have been changes to make rugby safer such as "head injury assessments" (which are done when a player has taken a nasty knock to the head) which checks for signs of concussion or head injury and the player cannot return to the field unless they pass. In elite levels of the sport there are now sensors in the players' gum shields that transmits real time information to coaches and doctors who can monitor the forces that are acting on each player's head. There are numerous rules to make tackling safer: no tackling a player who is in the air, no tackling a player at neck of head height etc. I know for the tiny amount of time I played rugby at school one of the things we learnt was how to fall so as to avoid injury.
😊I played rugby at school back in the 60's as a 10 year old, no helmets no padding, just boots shorts and a rugby shirt in all weather's. I preferred football but we weren't allowed to play that as a sport. Ahh the good old days😊😅
Hi Allana. I don't know about these days, but when I was at school in the 80's everyone who was elected to play Rugby had to train and participate in the local school league games. I was unfortunate enough to get selected. My main sport at school was swimming so the injuries from Saturday matches sometimes impacted on my swimming training. I did enjoy the camaraderie and when we won on the very odd occasion it was great. It is brutal though. Even at school level. Not sure about these days though. 👍🙂
Many years ago, I was in economy on a plane with the Tongan Rugby team. No idea how on earth they got int heir seats. Just massive men! Lovely and polite though!
Rugby has without any doubt better songs than any other sport.
I played rugby in school for a few years and we didn't wear any armour other than a gum shield
Its the love for the game Alanna, we still cringe at tackles like you was watching. At school it is played during the autumn season. Darts not a sport, you tell that to the people who play it and the fans that watch it.
If Darts isn't a sport then archery isn't a sport either since it's pretty much hitting a target.
American Football evolved from Rugby at US Universities.
There is a hospital pass in rugby where you pass to someone when you know they are going to be tackled hard. It's a game for people who don't care about injuries which makes it better IMO. Its a much more social sport than football, we don't get the hooligans that football attracts. You should attend a local club, it's a game that only gets better.
Rugby, tt. The thrill comes from seeing the amazing things these people can do.
Accidents, injury and even death is a risk of doing it but that is not what most people want to see. They want to see the absolute best going as hard as they can and close fight for the win.
The popularity of hardest hits and crash compilations is probably as much from non fans of the sport. Extreme things are often popular for their shock value, fans are there enjoying the whole game not just a clip reel.
I love the physicality of the game however I love the skill of the game even more, when you see a try perfectly executed or a player who can evade the defence and score or create a try then I don't think there is anything better in a sporting context.
6:18 looks like what they do at the chiropractor, maybe he felt amaze after
There are 2 sorts of rugby, league and union. Rugby league is played in the north in Lancashire and Yorkshire. I think their is a video about the different rules on rugby. The best thing to do is watch a rugby game or the highlights to get an idea of the game. Great reaction tho.
We used to play rugby in school back in the '80s. (Rugby is a public school where the sport originated but I was a comprehensive kid).
As a teen I loved going to Twickers in the summer, where we knew a gap in the fence to get in for free. Lots of free beer from generous adult fans too.
Rugby sevens were great. Also hilarious were the streakers. The stewards were quite brutal with the males, but (quite rightly) sheepish with the females.
I hated actual football (soccer) games as the environment was completely different. Think of Hillsborough. In Twickenham we were not all caged in and could even sit in the field and enjoy the sun and the game.
A friend of mine was att college training to be a sports teacher and another student died durung the game.
I used to play Rugby at school --- one time the Teacher was on the opposite team, I tackled him ---
Or rather bounced off him and was stunned for about 30 secs.
Yeah, if you can't break into a sweat --- it ain't a sport.
Miss out the "w" in the middle of Warwickshire! Rugby was played at my grammar school. No, they didn't have helmets and the ambulance often turned up.
Now, please, react to best tries compilations.
Big hits might be violent, but they're not what rugby is really about.
Whereas union has 15 players to a team, league has 13. In league, each team can make 10 substitutions during a game as opposed to a maximum of eight in union. Scoring is different too. A try in union is worth five points, it's four in league although a conversion will earn you an extra two points in either code.
I played rugby at school up to the age of about 14 when I stopped growing and everyone else carried on - you definitely don't want to be the smallest person on a rugby field!
Isn't that often the ref?
When I was at school we didn't get a choice football (soccer) was banned we played rugby union, the girls played hockey.
Hiya Alanna, I used to play rugby when I was at Secondary school,I cracked a rib and I carried on with the game,this is Choppy
My high school had a women's rugby team - everyone loved it. I thought it looked way too scary and ouchie. My only other exposure to rugby is when Ross was playing it to impress Emily on Friends. I don't understand how helmets aren't used in this game.
Yeah or at least some head protection.
I played it at school and no there were no helmets, but that was 1972.