2010)
Tackling in Rugby: Coaching Strategies for Effective Technique and Injury Prevention.
Coaches must teach players
tackling fundamentals that include making first contact with the shoulder pads/chest.
Hay fears that
tackling is becoming a lost art and admitted: "Fewer players seem to be drilled in
tackling and I believe that is sad.
Physiological and anthropometric correlates of
tackling ability in junior elite and subelite league players.
Spearing, or the deliberate use of the helmet in blocking or
tackling to punish an opponent, places both players at risk; invokes a major penalty.
In many of the games in World Cup '90, the
tackling was cynical and downright vicious.
