Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Rugby

Rugby is my favourite sport, and just happens to be the best sport SJK offers! Why is this, you ask? Well I'll provide you a few reasons in these three paragraphs.

Firstly, contact sports rule all, because they require technique, speed, fearlessness, leadership, and cooperation. The tackling technique is simple in a way: hit low, wrap up the legs, and keep your head to the victims hip/butt, but really, it can be very, very difficult to learn. I'm definitely no expert, but when a 6' 2" 14 year olds are sprinting at you an want nothing more than to destroy you, it's pretty scary. At that point the technique kinda goes out the window, but that's the point of fearlessness, once you learn the technique and have it locked, it's not as scary. (I'm guessing, because I'm not a pro tackler) Speed, well consider me half of David, and Goliath is chasing me, I'm going to be thankful for being fast and agile. Leadership, Scrum half, Hooker and someone called the Number 8 man, are basically the only ones who need this skill. First of all, the backs, who have the speed, agility and score most of the trys, are supported and controlled by the Scrum half. He calls the plays and dictates where everyone is going and what everyone is doing in the backs. The Hooker (Don't Laugh it's a position) calls the plays in the line outs and has to start the balls movement toward the Scrum half behind the Number 8 at the back of the scrum. The Number 8 man is at the back of the scrum, and is in control of the power and support of the forwards in the scrums, he has to be big, strong and has to have exceptional leadership, it just so happens Andrew Belyea was our 8 man last year. He is the perfect person for the job, he also has to communicate with the Scrum half to notify him if we are losing the scrum, at that point, the 8 man will yell 'LOSING!' and the scrum half will tell the backs to get flat, which basically means we're going to be taking down Goliath sprinting towards us and defending our Try zone. That sums of the positions and qualities needed for the sport.

Now, I'm going to tell you why it's fun, and not just injuries, mud, getting dirty and being plowed through. Getting trys, is probably the best feeling ever, finally you can say that the fitness, drills and pain comes to pay you back. Not to mention your coach team is almost happier then you, and are very supportive, that what keeps you coming back to practice day after day. Newcomers often quit, but after the first taste of victory, you're hooked.
The second best feeling in the game is deaking out Goliath and possibly avoiding serious pain.
It's not as easy as you may think, 'Just juke left and you're good' um no. With a wingspan of 6'5" a few steps may be in order.

To finish things off, if I made you want to NOT play, that's unfortunate, but still give it a try, you definitely won't regret it.

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