Rugby Skills, Tactics and Rules: The New Zealand Way

by Gordon Hunter (Author), Fotopress Ltd (Photographer), Tony Williams (Author), Gordon Hunter (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $3.25

  This book teaches the basics of rugby the New Zealand way. Illustrated throughout with action photographs, most of them taken during the 1999 World Cup, the text is written by experts with experience at international level and senior provincial level, both as players and coaches. New Zealand has been the most consistently successful nation in the history of Rugby Union. Its mixture of hard, unrelenting forward skills allied to awesome running rugby has made the All Blacks the team to beat year in, year out and the value of New Zealand coaches is recognized worldwide. Graham Henry has transformed Wales, Alex Wylie brought Argentina to the quarter finals of the 1999 World Cup and former All Black star Zinzan Brooke coaches Harlequins. A 32-page section deals with the basic rules of the game.

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $22.65

  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.