The All Blacks Sports Wizards

Has anyone tried this? Feedback please ..

http://www.rugbysportswizards.com

Role of the #8 on engagement

I had a great opportunity yesterday to see some of the NA4 preparation, and with that a conversation with one of the specialist coaches. We talked primarily about the role of the #8 as relates to power generation in the scrum.

I've seen and coached #8s to engage a variety of different ways:

Feet shoulder width or more apart, essentially even.
The "slingshot", as part of the total impact method
The "sprint start", with feet split legged like a sprinter, driving forward off the front foot.


What you'll see in the video here is yet another variation. The #8 sets up split legged, as he would for a sprint style start, but instead of driving forward, he actually drops his forward leg back. The resulting effect is that gravity immediately drops him low and forward, propelling the locks ahead of him.

Please forgive the poor quality, it's a cell phone video. Thoughts?