48 Ways to Dominate Possession

What could be more perfect? Your team repeatedly snatching lineout ball ready to drive into the opposition.

Would you like to know the coaching techniques to boost your players' skills, tactics, power and confidence in the lineout?

The most comprehensive lineout playbook ever published – includes moves for every game situation, whether in attack or defence. With over 100 pages of skills, practices and plays, The Lineout and How to Win It truly covers all aspects of the lineout.

Now is the time to shape up your lineout

With the new ELVs there is an increasing reliance on kicking. Consequently the lineout has become an even more important attacking option. Are you using it to its full advantage?

The Lineout Problem

When researching the lineout for their own teams, the authors discovered many confusing and conflicting theories on how the lineout should work.

This is why they have now created the complete solution to lineout problems. A single resource to help you coach all the core skills and 48 lineout plays, to confuse and bamboozle the opposition.

This unique combination of skills and practical tactics makes The Lineout and How to Win It the ultimate coaching guide. It will provide you with everything you need to know to rise to the lineout challenge.

The Lineout and How to Win It will help you create a strong and confident lineout, with players able to adapt under pressure and dominate this vital part of the match.

The Lineout and How to Win It is split into two sections. The first part covers all the core skills you need to fire your lineout into action. The second part of the manual is The Great Lineout Playbook, containing all the lineout moves you will ever need.

Core Skills

All lineouts are underpinned by the core skills of each player.

Focusing on player and unit skills, The Lineout and How to Win It describes the techniques needed to perform the skills and the ways to practise to perfect them.

Including 15 Skill Development Practices and valuable advice about spotting and correcting errors.

The manual covers:

• Throwing in – the grip, stance, throwing sequence, including 5 practices to improve your throwers' accuracy, strength and timing
• Jumping – the stance, jumping sequence, movement into the jump, working with lifters, including 4 practices to improve your jumpers' speed, movement and jump height
• Catching – the catching action, delivery, overcoming disruptive opponents, including a practice to improve your players' catching reactions and ball delivery
• Supporting and lifting – the players' stance, lifting sequence, front and rear grips, working as a unit, including 2 practices to improve coordination between the lifters and with the jumper
• Unit skills –the jump-lift sequence, coordinating the players, improving the speed of the lift, timing in the lineout, including 3 practices to improve each unit's timing, movement and team work

Skills Development Practices

15 robust exercises, with valuable training tips and developments:

1. Better throwing distance and accuracy
2. Improving the core for throwing
3. Developing power in the throw
4. Developing throw accuracy
5. Developing throw timing
6. Tackle bag jump for agility
7. Tackle bag jump with movement
8. Lineout shuttle run for speed
9. Lineout agility run
10. Catching under pressure
11. Lifter mirroring for better coordination
12. Controlled jump for better lifting
13. Lineout 3 v 3 contest
14. Lineout volleyball skills game
15. Pod race for unit speed and movement

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The manual also details proven ways to get the most from your lineout training sessions. With adaptations to take account of the new ELVs, it describes methods to:

• Perfect skills in a pressured, game-like environment

• Construct lineout systems to suit your team in attack and defence

• Chose the right tactics for your team – the catch and drive, "off the top", the "peel", the length of the throw, playing with a small pack, shortened lineouts

• Disrupt your opponent's lineout – defending at the front, the defensive "rotator", countering the catch and drive

Devastating Moves

The second half of the manual is The Great Lineout Playbook – a detailed guide covering 48 lineout moves:

• Front, middle and back balls
• Full lineouts and split lineouts
• 6-man, 5-man and 4-man lineouts
• Options for bringing an extra player into the line
• Defensive lineouts
  

Move Finder

More than just a list, the Move Finder is a unique guide, allowing you to select a lineout play that suits the strengths of your team, targets a weakness in the opposition, and exploits the particular circumstances of the match.

Click here to download the Move Finder and review the moves for yourself.

Moves to Suit Every Team

Every move is clearly explained and illustrated with easy to follow diagrams, locating each player by number, at every stage of the move. Whether it's the initial set up, the players' movements, the timing of the throw or the execution of the play, every aspect of the move is detailed and described.

How to Use the Great Lineout Playbook

The manual tells you why the move works, the skills your players need to perform the move, the common mistakes players can make and how to correct these, and the ways you can adapt the move to suit your team.

Every move also comes with a checklist to help you decide when and where it's best used – in both attacking and defensive positions – and about how to turn a successful lineout into a devastating attack. For instance:

• Use the move if you have – a better jumper than the opposition, only one good jumper in your team, two jumpers, three jumpers, or more mobile players than the opposition
• Use the move – 5m from their line, in their 22, between the 22s, in your 22, 5m from your own line
• Use the move to attack with a – catch and drive, front peel, back peel, backs move

Click here to download a sample move from the manual to try out for yourself.

The Complete Authority on Lineouts

Designed for all coaches and all teams, The Lineout and How to Win It will give you the tools to make your lineouts… FAST, POWERFUL, ACCURATE, SUCCESSFUL.

It is the complete authority on the lineout, designed to use over and over again – ensuring great value for money.

Because it is so easy to use, this is a training aid that delivers on the field and definitely won't stay on your shelf.

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