Rugby Coaching: The Jackal Process

Rugby Coaching:

Featuring Australia Wallabies David Pocock and England's Billy Vunipola and Tom Curry. Clips are from the the Six Nations Rugby Championship and the The Rugby Championship.

Key Points:

Win shoulder height on approach
Wide foot placement
Chest to ball and stay in the fight

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[supermonkey]

Fantastic video!

Greetings from Curacao

[nicolasfraize]

On all these examples you showed here it looks like the jaker is comming in from the side of the ruck

[goodmaro]

Are you sure the first example is a legal play? You have #8 and #1 of white seemingly bound, and two players in green meeting them at the shoulders, so what you consider jackaling by #8 looks like hands in the ruck to me. Your team gets to snatch the ball or to ruck over it, but not both at once, do they?

[summerbiby]

What about the allowance to place the ball for the tackled player?

[Vp_ts]

Check out Jack Willis absolute master of the jackal

[SportsFan-grzx]

Thank you for making these fantastic break down videos. What should you do with your head to help protect your neck? Do you want to be looking up slightly so you can see incoming opposition or do you want it looking towards the ball?

[callumhornigold]

Hi, great vid. I have a question, if you tackle the player and both go to ground and none of the supporting opposition players have arrived yet, can you quickly stand up and jackal?

[barneywilson]

This video was really helpful, I just wanted to know when you win the ball in the ruck but you can’t get it out for whatever reason do you just hold it, or would that be foul

[chrisr]

It's funny but the commenters wank on about the so called Jackal but you never get a youtube clip of the 101 best Jackals and Scrums but always the best tries, tackles and fights.

[SuperAi]

Thanks for the upload. How high are the chances of damaging your face and ears while doing the jackal?

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