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Rugby football refers to sports descended from a common form of football developed at Rugby School. The two major sports are rugby league and rugby union. American football and Canadian football also originated from Rugby football.
Rugby league is played both as a professional and amateur sport in Ireland, France, Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand. It is regarded as the national sport of Papua New Guinea. There are semi-professional and amateur competitions of rugby league which take place in France, Russia, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Serbia, Lebanon, South Africa, Japan, Canada, the United States, Fiji, Cook Islands and Tonga.
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Rugby for Dummies
by Patrick Guthrie, Mathew Brown
For every rugby enthusiast at every level of interest! Discouver why rugby is North America's new favorite pastime.
Now, you can learn and love the game of rugby as a player, coach, or fan. From drills and shape-up exercises, to helpful tips on safety and injuries, this book is packed with information for every rugby admirer.Explanations in plain English
The Dummies Way
- "Get in, get out" information
- Icons and other navigational aids
- Tear-out cheat sheet
- Top ten lists
- A dash of humor and fun
Mathew Brown writes a weekly column for foxsportsworld.msn.com, and hosts the Fox Sports World Rugby Report. Patrick Guthrie is a member of the USA Rugby Board of Directors and is a producer of rugby programming at Fox Sports World.
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The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Rugby
by Robert G. Price, Maryanne Haselow-Dulin (Editor)
The Ultimate Guide to Weight Training for Rugby is the most comprehensive and up-to-date rugby-specific training guide in the world today. It contains descriptions and photographs of over 80 of the most effective weight training, flexibility, and abdominal exercises used by athletes worldwide. This book features year-round rugby-specific weight-training programs guaranteed to improve your performance and get you results.
No other rugby book to date has been so well designed, so easy to use, and so committed to weight training. This book takes you from the off-season to the in-season, and is loaded with dozens of tips and pointers to help you maximize your training and improve your performance.
Both beginners and advanced athletes and weight trainers can follow this book and utilize its programs. From recreational to professional, thousands of athletes all over the world are already benefiting from this book and its techniques, and now you can too!
Rob Price is a first class certified personal trainer and a fitness consultant at the University of Wisconsin. He is a national weight lifting champion and state bench press record holder. He has helped thousands of athletes all over the world achieve their goals. Rob is also a contributing author to OnFitness magazine and is the founder of the #1 Sports-Training website on the Internet.
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Rugby Skills, Tactics & Rules
by Tony Williams, Gordon Hunter
Second only to soccer as an internationally loved field game, the hard-hitting sport of rugby is growing in popularity in North America. This spirited guide to the game is packed with superb, full color, action photographs of great players from around the world demonstrating fantastic rugby tackling, scrummaging, rucking, mauling, kicking, lineouts and running. The authors, experts with international experience as players and coaches, describe the many tactical and skill aspects of the game: Scrums; Passing; The Lineout; Kicking; Rucks; Backline Attack; Mauls; Blind-Side; Attack; Tackling; The Try; Backline Defence; Rules; and Running.
High-impact photographs and concise, no-nonsense text combine for an action-packed guide to the modern, skillful game that is top-class rugby. "Rugby Skills, Tactics & Rules" will excite, entertain and enthrall players at all levels and rugby fans young and old. A 32 page section details the rules, plus sidebars throughout relate great, historic moments from international rugby play.
Gordon Hunter has 25 years of rugby coaching experience, including several championship teams in New Zealand. He is currently the coach of the Auckland Blues, two-time winners of the Super 12, one of the world's toughest rugby's competitions.
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The Rfu Rugby Union Referee's Manual
by Rugby Football Union
This is very good reference for all current and aspiring rugby union referees. Useful tips and handy hints are punctuated with clear and concise explanation of the Laws of the Game.
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Complete Conditioning for Rugby
by Dan Luger, Paul Pook
Features the first-hand insights from Dan Luger, English rugby star. Luger teams up with leading strength and conditioning coach Paul Pook to provide the very latest in rugby conditioning know-how.
An integral part of the England set-up and British Lion, Dan Luger plays for top French side Perpignan, following successful seasons with leading London clubs NEC Harlequins and Saracens. He has been described as the most exciting wing and deadliest finisher in European rugby, having scored 23 times for England in appearances. Renowned for his dedication to training, Dan presents speed workshops throughout Europe that are aimed at everyone from serious coaches to young players. He is one of the fittest and fastest men in world rugby.
In 2004 Luger was awarded Member of the Order of the British Empire on the Queen's New Year's Honours List for his services to rugby. Luger was born in London and is currently living in the south of France.
Paul Pook is strength and conditioning coach for NEC Harlequins RFC and has worked with elite athletes in a wide variety of sports, including squash, swimming, track and field, and rowing. Pook is a former professional rugby player and has worked with many of the world's top international players. He is recognized for his innovative approach to sports conditioning. Pook is co-author of The Core Workout and managing director of Fitness 4 Sport Limited.
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Rugby: The Golden Age : Extraordinary Images from 1900 to 1980
by John Tennant, JPR Williams (Introduction)
Played for at least two centuries, with roots stretching back into the Middle Ages, rugby remains a rough sport played by rugged men. Nearly 300 remarkable black-and-white photographs present the early days of the sport as most have never seen it. Images capture supporters making their way to the match, field workers preparing the pitch, action shots of such legendary players as Bill Beaumont and Cec Ryan, and teams including South Africa's famed Springboks. Both amateur and professional rugby is featured, with photographs documenting the frenzied tries and brutal scrums, as well as famed stadiums including England's Wembley and Leytonstone.
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Rugby: Steps to Success
by Tony Biscombe, Peter Drewett
This book provides all the fundamentals, position-specific techniques, and key tactics needed to be a winner in rugby union competition. Authors from England's Rugby Football Union provide the expert instruction and special insights to get an edge on the opponent.
Loaded with 73 drills and 176 illustrations, Rugby: Steps to Success is the sport's perfect learning and practice tool. Step by step, players will develop and refine basic individual skills, and then will move on to execute intermediate-level team tactics.
Part of the highly popular Steps to Success Activity Series, this book teaches the essentials needed to compete and win.
Tony Biscombe has more than 25 years of Rugby Union coaching experience. As a member of staff of the Rugby Football Union (RFU), his assignments have included coaching in France, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Japan, the West Indies, and Germany. In his current role as Divisional Technical Administrator for the RFU, Biscombe evaluates coaches working at all levels of the Game, helps to develop elite youth players and provides technical support and resources for the England team.
Tony Biscombe lives in Leeds, England, with his wife, Larraine, and their two children, James and Zoe. Biscombe enjoys sports in general, golf in particular, and gardening with his wife.
Peter Drewett was a physical education, exercise, and sports science lecturer at the University of Exeter. He is an RFU Senior Coach and also the RFU National Student Development Officer. He has played and coached rugby at various club, county, divisional, and international levels and has coached players ranging from those in school to senior internationals. With Tony Biscombe, Drewett developed the "Supercoach" CD-ROM: a rugby teaching and coaching aid, the first software package of its kind and one that has been praised for both its content and its design.
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Think Rugby: A Guide to Purposeful Team Play
by Jim Greenwood
Mr. Greenwood went into great detail about the Tactical Decision Making that goes on during a match. Not only does this book expand a players thinking capability on the pitch, but many of the methods of thinking can be used off the pitch. Do not buy to help out your physical game, but your mental game.
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Total Rugby: Fifteen Man Rugby for Coach and Player
by Clive Woodward (Foreword), Jim Greenwood
Great, great book. Both for the new rugby player and the old hand. Only criticism I have is that more illustrations and diagrams would be helpful for the total newbie. However, since that wasn't the intended audience it only becomes a problem because there's nothing else comparable out there. Like the Bible, everytime you read it, you learn something new every time. Or something that you weren't ready to understand before becomes suddenly clear. A must-have for the rugby obsessed.
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Rugby Coaching: The New Zeland Way
by Rodney Butt
Rugby Coaching the New Zealand Way is a complete rugby coaching guide. It combines modern techniques with traditional values and ethics. It will help you understand this great game and share its spirit. From young players to professional coaches, there is something in this book for everyone.
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Rugby Tough
by Bruce D. Hale (Editor), David J. Collins (Editor)
Rugby is a highly demanding, physical sport. But anyone who has played or coached the game knows that mental skills separate the best players from the rest. Rugby Tough teaches you how to sharpen your focus to play your best.
Rugby Tough covers players’ psychological skills, group dynamics, and mental strategies in competitive play. From building team cohesiveness to tactics for defending and attacking, you’ll find all the tools you need to perform at the highest level.
This definitive word on mental preparation springs from the experience and expertise of coaches and sport psychologists from England, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, Canada, Australia, and the United States who’ve played and counseled many of the world’s best rugby performers. Achieve the mindset of a champion and be ready for the ultimate challenge. Be rugby tough.
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Womens Rugby: Coaching And Playing the Collegiate Game
by Scott Rawdon, N. Stanley, Jr. Nahman
Every collegiate female rugger should read this book - it will provide a blueprint for: learning the game, fitting rugby into busy schedules, club organization, avoiding injury, and developing a clear sense of personal benchmarks in each players' game.
Readers naïve to women’s rugby will discover the essence of the college game, new players (especially nervous rookies) may discover a blueprint for what to expect and how to succeed, experienced players may discover new clues to mastering this game, and older players who want to morph into coaching, may discover a manual for establishing a successful program. Finally, all readers will discover that in women’s collegiate rugby, teamwork matters more than size, mastering the fundamentals and executing simple, but flawless technique wins games, open communication between players and coaches breeds pride in a program, and attention to conditioning, flexibility, and the hazards of the game reduces the risk and occurrence of injury.
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Making the Rugby World
by T. Chandler
This book explores the expansion of rugby from its imperial and amateur upper-class white male core into other contexts throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The development of rugby in the racially divided communities of the setter empire and how this was viewed are explored initially. Then the editors turn to four case studies of rugby's expansion beyond the bounds of the British Empire (France, Italy, Japan and the USA). The role of women in rugby is examined and the subsequent development of women's rugby as one of the fastest growing sports for women in Europe, North America and Australasia in the 1980s and 1990s. The final section analyses the impact of commercialisation, professionalisation and media on rugby and the impact on the historic rugby culture linked to an ethos of amateurism.
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The Bluffer's Guide to Rugby, Revised : The Bluffer's Guide Series
by Alexander C. Rae
Be an instant expert in rugby and bluff your way with anyone who knows anything about the game. No studying required, just a sense of humor. From the "Dirty Jersey Move", to the "Short Lineout Ruse", the Bluffer's Guide to Rugby contains everything you need to know to hold your own with any fan or player of the "gentlemen's game".
Bluffer's Guides is a series of snappy little books containing facts, jargon, and all you need to know for instant expertise.
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