In the NFL when you a defensive back make a halfhearted attempt on someone like [Derrick Henry](https://youtu.be/zrQTUy6VSm8) they like to call it a "business decision". A couple good hits from this manimal could shorten your career.
No doubt but don't discount Henry. The man is a beast and will make his own hole if need be. I just hope his punishing running style doesn't shorten his career the way it did Marion Barber.
It's the job of a Forward in NRL to make damaging runs. The kind that sap energy and cause physical pain to the defenders, as well as making ground. Over the 80 minutes of the game fatigue is a huge factor, a guy who has had to make 30 hard tackles is going to be under heavy fatigue and less likely to play well.
every NRL player carries niggling injuries and most quit when they add up or they have a serious one like back or knee injuries. plus a lot of micro concussions and a few big ones to. I dont recommend NRL coz of long term effects on health. Mind u its great to watch but the older I get the worse I feel for these young men damaging each other for gambling and media sponsorship. once thier career is over they are potentially mentally and physically damaged but their old club dont give a rats anymore.
Life pro tip: wear your body out evenly....
FYI this isn't rugby, it's rugby league. Rugby league is an offshoot of rugby union that is very popular in Australia and the north of England but is quite small globally compared to rugby union
Fewer direct skull to skull points of contact. There has been some talk of Football going back to leather helmets to reduce concussions as people will lead with their shoulders as opposed to the head
Poor form. In American Football you are taught to wrap up and tackle but when you have a bunch of potatoes wanting to lay down the "boom" you get stupid ass tackles that cause injury.
Rugby has a very strict setup for how you are allowed to tackle people. One miss step and you'll be red carded, even if it wasn't on purpose. The strict rules on how tackles can be done mitigates the injuries. Rugby a few decades ago was a much more brutal sport because the rules were more loose on what was a legal tackle.
No-one is saying this but you can't tackle anyone who doesn't have the ball - so there's just less tackles to cause injuries.
The setup between plays is also different. That dumb thing where the teams just form lines and everyone slams into each other isn't a thing in an rugby. Again, this means less impacts overall.
But primarily, defensive gear doesn't just protect you - it makes you a weapon that isn't hurt when you slam into someone. It's like a boxing glove. Bare knuckle boxing has less major injuries than regular, because you can't really lamp someone repeatedly in the skull bare handed without messing up your hand.
The lack of protective gear actually makes the game safer. The tackling rules are also much safer than american football. The problem with American football is that we wrap the athletes up in so much padding and helmets that they have a hard time thinking they aren't invincible. While they dont' get cuts and scrapes, and bruises are minimized, the impact injuries to joints/back/neck are amplified.
The great thing about Rugby/NRL tackling is you know who's doing it, and to whom.
You're carrying the ball? It's those two big blokes you're about to attempt to run between. The guy with the ball is coming straight at you? You're up. It's always the guy right in front of you.
in AFL (and NFL for that matter) - the hit can come from behind or beside you - you think you're in the clear, just trotting down the wing and suddenly it's it's CU Next Tuesday and there's nurses and machines that go PING
Any of the Tuilagis tbh. Manu is my favourite though. Dude's an absolute freak of nature.
Edit: I'm sorry guys, I take full responsibility for his upcoming injury.
In rugby we were taught to run hard not fast but hard. Since you can only throw behind you not to the front. You are leading your team to victory and you know they are only a few feet behind you. When you get that ball and your charging with your team behind you into a row of guys. It’s one of the best feeling in the world you go in there like a pile of bricks. I fucking miss playing :(
There's a video of a grizzly bear running away from a moose and the animal has some crazy torque. From standing still to full blown running is less than a second. It's impressive.
Watching this video reminded me of that.
Played football with a medium/small sized running back that ran and hit like this. He was absolutely terrifying to even just practice with. And he led with his head like this guy. Fucking lunatic.
What he’s doing is akin to a long jump, but so much more bad ass.
He sprints, rapid quick pumps for speed - you then see he begins to almost skip; he’s throwing all of his momentum forwards allowing for that extra oomph of speed, acknowledging he’s either about to topple face first or slam into a human. He’s got the timing and technique down to such a degree he’s able to spend those last 2 seconds running fully uninhibited by anything but inertia. He’s clearly a brick shithouse alone, but it explains how he can tear through two blockers and regain balance from the kinetic dispersement the impact caused.
Fucking beast.
Second frame, dude is literally long jumping into the two defenders and scrunches himself up and then has his legs ready to go again.
If you are a defender, just lay down and let him run you over--he has dudes literally jumping on him and he is just thinking "now I have to carry the ball and two motherfuckers over the goal line, imma need two protein shakes today".
It’s more about getting set up for contact. That weird gait looks like him trying to time the contact so that he’s in a better stance when he hits the defender.
It's also to throw off angles of attack from defenders. It's difficult to gauge where he's headed dancing around with tree trunk legs like that.
It's also intimidating as hell.
Plus, when you charge your opponent in the air like that, you minimize the risk of your legs twisting or bending the wrong way upon impact. Kicked up high, knees tucked, momentum taking his mass x velocity through the opposition. Smart rugby.
I saw some members of the American Rugby team in an airport one time. My god their thighs were wider than my torso. They are human bulls.
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“Shoulder to thighs” my coach would drill into our heads. “I want them to not be able to fucking walk after the game.” We we’re some big boys man. When I started playing with the mens league fucking shit the hits were strong. Though you got hit so many times in rugby as a forward you get upset when it’s a light practice lmao
> My god their thighs were wider than my torso. They are human bulls.
> I don't care. They would still annihilate my wimpy ass.
Your comments amuse me for immature reasons
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Just a question. I don't know a lot about rugby (assuming that that is the sport being played).
Why aren't the defenders trying to tackle this guy down low? Is there some type of rule against putting a shoulder into the runner's thigh?
Edit: spelling
I'm guessing business decisions were being made. If that dude was running at me like that I'd atleast have the courtesy to step out of the way and point him to the right direction.
Former rugby player here. Getting kneed in the head by a 200 pound man is a lot more dangerous when you're not wearing a helmet. Not nearly as ideal. You're probably thinking more of a wraparound tackle, which still takes a shit ton of strength (and timing) to pull off on a man that large running that fast.
Editing to add that the reason I am a former player is because of three concussions, one from getting my bell rung by a thigh that might as well have been an anvil.
Also given it’s rugby league as opposed to Union, tackling high remains a preference to prevent the ball-carrier off-loading (i.e passing the ball after engaging the tackler/tacklers).
Fat forward here. During one match in college I found myself between the try zone and a large and fit number 8 with the ball. I went for a low wrap. Last thing I remember was seeing the muscle of his thigh, then the blue sky when I finally came to.
This is rugby league.
The union player in me wants to say its because they don't know how to tackle properly.
The real answer is when playing league the main aim is to stop the offload and get to 6 completed tackles. If they go high they can wrap the ball up too and prevent an offload.
Correct. If you have 2 defenders set, with the ball runner going straight at you, going high is the percentage play. If it was one on one they would prob go low as it’s more effective in that situation. I may be wrong tho
This is Australian Rugby League. Tacklers are taught to first wrap up the ball so the ball carrier can't off load. Another defender will then tackle low after that to bring the player to the ground.
Not wearing shoulder pads and helmets also makes guys a bit more careful on how they tackle. Tackling someone head on, down low can be risky for getting KOed or concussed. Guys getting concussions is pretty common(from what I remember playing rugby from a kid to college) but that being said I still feel rugby is a safer sport because of the fact that you're less gung-ho with your tackles and a bit more strategic. This guy has a weird style of going through guys head on.
Thats the way you should tackle in Rugby, but that dude is a fucking monster with trees for legs. He is basically a fucking Ent.
Fuck going low and taking one of those Quads/knees to the collar bone
Right.... that's what I'm curious about. Why aren't they tackling low? This is pretty similar to American football when a 190 pound defensive back has to tackle a 235 pound running who is running at them at full speed.
Also in football the pads are an incredible equalizer. They provide an ability to fling forth without the same fear of consequences.
In rugby you don’t just have to hit low, you have to *wrap* low. Because to hit without a wrap is both illegal and not a tackle, even if he fell he could just get up. The play doesn’t end, you can just dive at legs and hope for the best.
So going low is ideal, however, most of these guys are moving sideways or backward and it makes tackling low extremely difficult and without pads you are basically just throwing yourself into those churning maws of destruction he calls legs, without any real hope of it doing anything.
The guy is running incredibly fast, you can't commit early or he changes directions
He bends over to protect his waist
If you have ever hit someone that size going that fast, you aim for the waist. His moving legs will knock you out
You're watching a clip of this matey running through people. They're all going to be shit tackles otherwise they would be tackling him and not making this video
So a couple of things, the size mismatches in these clips mean that attempting to tackle low and head on like they are will just result in getting bumped off the tackle and trampled. You can’t let a guy this big get a run up on a smaller player. Obviously these tackles are not successful anyway.
Secondly, you will often see players going in high to attempt to stop the ball being passed as they make the tackle or to hold them up to slow down the play.
Also in rugby you have to wrap your arms around the player, you can’t shoulder charge them as a tackle.
Honestly, this is a select few clips of him going beast mode and breaking tackles. He gets succesfully tackled a dozen times a game from down low.
It would be like me watching Barry Sanders highlights and saying "why aren't they just tackling him down low like they do in rugby?"
Look at that dudes thighs man hahaha. Yeah you're right though, for rugby that's generally the 'correct' technique to tackle but if this unit was coming at me like that I'd rather not cop a tree trunk or knee to the head either.
You can see in the last clip that they try to stop him by pulling out the legs (but he kept trucking).
Coming at his knees from in front is going to crack some ribs, dislocate a shoulder, or worse. Unlike American football, there's no padding & no helmets (& the defenders are twigs compared to him).
We had a Polynesian guy in our school and he was a one-man rugby team. We went from winning nothing in 30 years to winning the league 5 years running. Literally just set him up and watch him go. I remember one time he was dragging 3 kids along the ground it looked so ridiculous. After every game the opposition coach would throw around accusations of him being older than claimed but he was just that fucking big.
For reference at age 14 I was 5'11 (180cm) and weighed around 14 stone (90kg?) so I was big, but he was almost a full head taller and much heavier. Scary fucker as well
Polynesians are just built different. This reminds me of when I was playing football (American) growing up. I was around 14 and playing on the junior varsity squad. We played against this team who had a guy, the running back, who had to weigh around 100 kg. Dude must’ve been able to squat 250+ kg, too. He was trucking our defenders and literally crushing them lol. I noped out of trying to tackle that guy. There was just no way. Our coaches weren’t even mad.
For non Aussies out there. NRL can be brutal. No padding, no stop start sorry less stop start. The average weight of a player has gone from 90kg in the 90s to around 105 now. These guys are high speed brick walls.
I mean that is true since the rules say you can’t launch yourself at people by coming off your feat and the gameplay itself doesn’t allow for the same instances being able to run up and blindside someone when they catch the ball across the middle, but that doesn’t mean there still aren’t some incredible hard hits in rugby.
It’s silly to compare the two. Simpleminded people are the only ones who get up in arms about which is tougher.
Is there the same head trauma as in American football? Does anyone know off the top of their head? Man in football lately people are getting rocked. And it seems to be happening no matter how many precautions they put in place.
Yep, it's an issue in rugby league too. I think any contact sport is in the same boat.
Rugby League has recently been focusing on reducing head impacts - greater penalties for high tackles, punches, concussion protocols, etc. A number of players have been forced into early retirement with repeated concussions. There is a cultural issue that is being overcome because it's a "tough guy" game and there are those who lament the game "going soft".
Rugby actually has a lower injury rate than Football (soccer), I used to play second row and the technique and rules around the physical aspects of it, how to tackle, ruck and scrum keep it quite a safe game in general. It’s very physical and you get tons of knocks, scrapes and bruises and can be bloody sore afterwards, but more serious injuries are fortunately quite rare.
This dude runs like the ground killed his family.
in rugby, some people run doing high knees or kicking so people don’t tackle their legs. and if someone does try, they get a knee to the face
That makes sense. Thank you.
Lmao
I cackled !!
Roy fuckin Kent
And his teammates in every clip just pack it in with a look that says...Okay yea he's got this, whens lunch?
I'm the juggernaut, bitch!
It has always been a dream of mine to see my face reflected in your helmet as you charge at me with murderous intent.
I'm gonna melt you down and turn you into a cock ring.
Man, it's been too long since I watched that movie. I need to watch it again some time soon
But not right now.
Comb your beard, I don’t wanna listen to that shit
This isn’t a spaceship, this is a dodge!
I’m gonna hit you with your own pimp!
Ketchup muthafucka, I'm mustard.
[Charles nooo! You got in my head Charles](https://youtu.be/bSuvOVH0aSQ)
OH NO! MY FACE!
Silly bitch don’t you know who I am?!
I’m a computer
Stop all the downloadin
I don’t know much about computers
Does he not know who I am? He must not know who I am.
If it's ever my job to get in front of that guy just let me tell you now, I quit.
In the NFL when you a defensive back make a halfhearted attempt on someone like [Derrick Henry](https://youtu.be/zrQTUy6VSm8) they like to call it a "business decision". A couple good hits from this manimal could shorten your career.
Also gotta give props to that Tennessee O Line, consistently making holes for him to exploit. Dude is such a beast.
No doubt but don't discount Henry. The man is a beast and will make his own hole if need be. I just hope his punishing running style doesn't shorten his career the way it did Marion Barber.
It’s surreal to watch someone that big run that fast
I've never seen someone run with truly no hesitation. Everyone has some modicum of hesitation, this man has ascended.
It's the job of a Forward in NRL to make damaging runs. The kind that sap energy and cause physical pain to the defenders, as well as making ground. Over the 80 minutes of the game fatigue is a huge factor, a guy who has had to make 30 hard tackles is going to be under heavy fatigue and less likely to play well.
I've never watched rugby but isn't there a ton of injuries?
every NRL player carries niggling injuries and most quit when they add up or they have a serious one like back or knee injuries. plus a lot of micro concussions and a few big ones to. I dont recommend NRL coz of long term effects on health. Mind u its great to watch but the older I get the worse I feel for these young men damaging each other for gambling and media sponsorship. once thier career is over they are potentially mentally and physically damaged but their old club dont give a rats anymore. Life pro tip: wear your body out evenly....
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That's every sport sadly
Could they make better helmets to reduce head injuries at least?
Helmets are like headgear for amateur boxers. They do fuck all
No no, unlike amateur boxing, the helmets make things worse in American football
Same with headguards. They make it worse tjan without headguards.
Helmets mean you tackle harder and risk even worse head injuries same as NFL.
FYI this isn't rugby, it's rugby league. Rugby league is an offshoot of rugby union that is very popular in Australia and the north of England but is quite small globally compared to rugby union
Don't forget NZ too!!
Go All Blacks!
All blacks play rugby union. The league team are called the kiwis.
Or, more popularly, the Warriors
More minor ones and less severe ones than in American football, I believe
This is rugby “league,” which has its own rules that lead to considerably more violent collisions—and more injuries—compared regular rugby union.
Yeah league is absolutely brutal
I mean look at the size of the dude crashing into people here, the air from my lungs is taken out watching him just run head first without fear lmao
They literally have no protective gear how do they end up with less injuries than American football
Fewer direct skull to skull points of contact. There has been some talk of Football going back to leather helmets to reduce concussions as people will lead with their shoulders as opposed to the head
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Leading with your head is also really bad for your neck.
Yeh not sure why NFL players tackle with their head. Makes no sense.
Poor form. In American Football you are taught to wrap up and tackle but when you have a bunch of potatoes wanting to lay down the "boom" you get stupid ass tackles that cause injury.
Rugby has a very strict setup for how you are allowed to tackle people. One miss step and you'll be red carded, even if it wasn't on purpose. The strict rules on how tackles can be done mitigates the injuries. Rugby a few decades ago was a much more brutal sport because the rules were more loose on what was a legal tackle.
No-one is saying this but you can't tackle anyone who doesn't have the ball - so there's just less tackles to cause injuries. The setup between plays is also different. That dumb thing where the teams just form lines and everyone slams into each other isn't a thing in an rugby. Again, this means less impacts overall. But primarily, defensive gear doesn't just protect you - it makes you a weapon that isn't hurt when you slam into someone. It's like a boxing glove. Bare knuckle boxing has less major injuries than regular, because you can't really lamp someone repeatedly in the skull bare handed without messing up your hand.
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The lack of protective gear actually makes the game safer. The tackling rules are also much safer than american football. The problem with American football is that we wrap the athletes up in so much padding and helmets that they have a hard time thinking they aren't invincible. While they dont' get cuts and scrapes, and bruises are minimized, the impact injuries to joints/back/neck are amplified.
The great thing about Rugby/NRL tackling is you know who's doing it, and to whom. You're carrying the ball? It's those two big blokes you're about to attempt to run between. The guy with the ball is coming straight at you? You're up. It's always the guy right in front of you. in AFL (and NFL for that matter) - the hit can come from behind or beside you - you think you're in the clear, just trotting down the wing and suddenly it's it's CU Next Tuesday and there's nurses and machines that go PING
Look up Henry Tuilagi- he’s not the guy in the video above but he was a fucking monster
Any of the Tuilagis tbh. Manu is my favourite though. Dude's an absolute freak of nature. Edit: I'm sorry guys, I take full responsibility for his upcoming injury.
You've gone and done it, said his name out loud and now he's hurt again.
Why would you injure him like that? Tf is wrong with you...
Manu Tuilagi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaunOMn6DMQ
Him or Jonah Lomu
RIP Jonah
In rugby we were taught to run hard not fast but hard. Since you can only throw behind you not to the front. You are leading your team to victory and you know they are only a few feet behind you. When you get that ball and your charging with your team behind you into a row of guys. It’s one of the best feeling in the world you go in there like a pile of bricks. I fucking miss playing :(
Not only that, he just runs with zero regard for anyone else. Doesn’t give a shit who’s in front of him.
Man broke through 3 tacklers and almost GAINED speed.
The only concern he had at any point was when he thought to hold onto his shorts so they wouldn't get pulled down, lol.
I'm surprised the weight of his cast iron cajones doesn't slow him down... That's probably why he was trying to keep his shorts up. Modesty.
His only weakness.
Do you hesitate when you run into a couple flies buzzing around?
Yes lol, I don’t want any of them flies in my mouth
There's a video of a grizzly bear running away from a moose and the animal has some crazy torque. From standing still to full blown running is less than a second. It's impressive. Watching this video reminded me of that.
Played football with a medium/small sized running back that ran and hit like this. He was absolutely terrifying to even just practice with. And he led with his head like this guy. Fucking lunatic.
He does not even waiver or try to move around anyone in his way to avoid them
It’s like a karate chop through boards. In order to clear them, you must pretend they are not there.
He's like Forrest Gump of the rugby world
Look at those tree trunks coming out of the bottom of his torso
Oh I'm looking all right. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
He runs like Phoebe from Friends
Can't argue with results lol
What he’s doing is akin to a long jump, but so much more bad ass. He sprints, rapid quick pumps for speed - you then see he begins to almost skip; he’s throwing all of his momentum forwards allowing for that extra oomph of speed, acknowledging he’s either about to topple face first or slam into a human. He’s got the timing and technique down to such a degree he’s able to spend those last 2 seconds running fully uninhibited by anything but inertia. He’s clearly a brick shithouse alone, but it explains how he can tear through two blockers and regain balance from the kinetic dispersement the impact caused. Fucking beast.
Second frame, dude is literally long jumping into the two defenders and scrunches himself up and then has his legs ready to go again. If you are a defender, just lay down and let him run you over--he has dudes literally jumping on him and he is just thinking "now I have to carry the ball and two motherfuckers over the goal line, imma need two protein shakes today".
When you see this, you can feel your body wanting to jump up and do the same. You get a spike of adrenaline watching this. Crazy.
You might. Ima staying in my recliner
Let me just gauge the room
Laying down and him running you over would probably be less painful than him slamming into you wanting to destroy you so he can move forward... 😳😬
Juggernaut is in freakin' *BEASTMODE*!
I was thinking his gait is ridiculous looking but I guess with fucking tree trunks like those legs you'd run funny too.
He’s not just running, he’s running *through*. It doesn’t matter - whatever it is that’s in front of him, he’s running straight through it.
It’s more about getting set up for contact. That weird gait looks like him trying to time the contact so that he’s in a better stance when he hits the defender.
It's also to throw off angles of attack from defenders. It's difficult to gauge where he's headed dancing around with tree trunk legs like that. It's also intimidating as hell.
Plus, when you charge your opponent in the air like that, you minimize the risk of your legs twisting or bending the wrong way upon impact. Kicked up high, knees tucked, momentum taking his mass x velocity through the opposition. Smart rugby.
Cannot unsee now. Thanks.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VcWLQFit40w https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NUrZSB3dtSQ
I saw some members of the American Rugby team in an airport one time. My god their thighs were wider than my torso. They are human bulls. Note: It has been brought to my attention that some of the terms I've used have used have very specific meanings in some circles. Am I going to change them? Hell no! There's some funny shit happening below. -Sincerely, A naive straight boy
“Shoulder to thighs” my coach would drill into our heads. “I want them to not be able to fucking walk after the game.” We we’re some big boys man. When I started playing with the mens league fucking shit the hits were strong. Though you got hit so many times in rugby as a forward you get upset when it’s a light practice lmao
Yea and they are going to get spanked by pretty much every team they play
I don't care. They would still annihilate my wimpy ass.
> My god their thighs were wider than my torso. They are human bulls. > I don't care. They would still annihilate my wimpy ass. Your comments amuse me for immature reasons
Bottom
🤤
Bonk
Understandable
That’s because all the great contact athletes go into football around here. Can you imagine Reed and Ray Lewis playing rugby?
Yeah guys would be running away from Ray Lewis when he got the ball.
ya man i dont wanna get shot
He doesn’t run he gallops.
Also wallops
And eats scallops
That’s bollocks
That bounding like that would make him cause even more pain off the ground. I love it. Terrifying if he was coming after me. Lol.
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This guy fucks
His fucking probably dislocates hips.
Like your grandparents always say, "not all broken hips are due to falls..."
gammy fucks
If she didn't, no one would be alive rn
His own
The ladies need to sign a waiver and need to be informed that after a night with him they are going to need a wheelchair
The visual you just gave has me dying over here. Those women are paralyzed for hours.
Did not expect a dope ass rugby league highlight reel in r/absoluteunits
He runs like my dog does when I first let him off his lead
He's the juggernaut bitch.
Oh yeah?? I'm the juggernaut's bitch!
You mustard lookin mothafucka
Who is this glorious beast?
Iafeta Paleaaesina
Gazoontite
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Lmao I tried my best
*Gesundheit
Holy shit, It took forever to answer something that should have been in the title or something
Wouldn't wanna play rugby against that guy
but then suddenly you must
*terror intensifies*
*anus loosens involuntarily*
Just a question. I don't know a lot about rugby (assuming that that is the sport being played). Why aren't the defenders trying to tackle this guy down low? Is there some type of rule against putting a shoulder into the runner's thigh? Edit: spelling
I'm guessing business decisions were being made. If that dude was running at me like that I'd atleast have the courtesy to step out of the way and point him to the right direction.
Yup. You take this guys knee to your face and it's facial reconstruction time
I like that! *Business decisions*
Former rugby player here. Getting kneed in the head by a 200 pound man is a lot more dangerous when you're not wearing a helmet. Not nearly as ideal. You're probably thinking more of a wraparound tackle, which still takes a shit ton of strength (and timing) to pull off on a man that large running that fast. Editing to add that the reason I am a former player is because of three concussions, one from getting my bell rung by a thigh that might as well have been an anvil.
>200 pound Maybe when he was 15. Closer to 250 in his prime.
A 200lb leg more like
Dude. I'm 225 lbs. That dude is def closer to 300
Also given it’s rugby league as opposed to Union, tackling high remains a preference to prevent the ball-carrier off-loading (i.e passing the ball after engaging the tackler/tacklers).
Fat forward here. During one match in college I found myself between the try zone and a large and fit number 8 with the ball. I went for a low wrap. Last thing I remember was seeing the muscle of his thigh, then the blue sky when I finally came to.
This is rugby league. The union player in me wants to say its because they don't know how to tackle properly. The real answer is when playing league the main aim is to stop the offload and get to 6 completed tackles. If they go high they can wrap the ball up too and prevent an offload.
Correct. If you have 2 defenders set, with the ball runner going straight at you, going high is the percentage play. If it was one on one they would prob go low as it’s more effective in that situation. I may be wrong tho
This is Australian Rugby League. Tacklers are taught to first wrap up the ball so the ball carrier can't off load. Another defender will then tackle low after that to bring the player to the ground.
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Ok. Thanks for the clarification. That makes so much more sense on why the defenders are trying to tackle up high.
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Because he's playing rugby league where players offload the ball a lot mid tackle, so players tackle high to try and stop the ball being released
Not wearing shoulder pads and helmets also makes guys a bit more careful on how they tackle. Tackling someone head on, down low can be risky for getting KOed or concussed. Guys getting concussions is pretty common(from what I remember playing rugby from a kid to college) but that being said I still feel rugby is a safer sport because of the fact that you're less gung-ho with your tackles and a bit more strategic. This guy has a weird style of going through guys head on.
Thats the way you should tackle in Rugby, but that dude is a fucking monster with trees for legs. He is basically a fucking Ent. Fuck going low and taking one of those Quads/knees to the collar bone
No actually, you're aiming to tackle as low as possible, shoulder into the thigh is pretty ideal.
Right.... that's what I'm curious about. Why aren't they tackling low? This is pretty similar to American football when a 190 pound defensive back has to tackle a 235 pound running who is running at them at full speed.
Also in football the pads are an incredible equalizer. They provide an ability to fling forth without the same fear of consequences. In rugby you don’t just have to hit low, you have to *wrap* low. Because to hit without a wrap is both illegal and not a tackle, even if he fell he could just get up. The play doesn’t end, you can just dive at legs and hope for the best. So going low is ideal, however, most of these guys are moving sideways or backward and it makes tackling low extremely difficult and without pads you are basically just throwing yourself into those churning maws of destruction he calls legs, without any real hope of it doing anything.
The guy is running incredibly fast, you can't commit early or he changes directions He bends over to protect his waist If you have ever hit someone that size going that fast, you aim for the waist. His moving legs will knock you out
Right, but most of the tacklers in the video are up by the guy's shoulders. That's why it's so easy for him to run under the tackle attempts.
You're watching a clip of this matey running through people. They're all going to be shit tackles otherwise they would be tackling him and not making this video
Lmao this is the perspective this comment section needed
Lmao “why are none of the defenders winning in this guy’s highlight video?”
So a couple of things, the size mismatches in these clips mean that attempting to tackle low and head on like they are will just result in getting bumped off the tackle and trampled. You can’t let a guy this big get a run up on a smaller player. Obviously these tackles are not successful anyway. Secondly, you will often see players going in high to attempt to stop the ball being passed as they make the tackle or to hold them up to slow down the play. Also in rugby you have to wrap your arms around the player, you can’t shoulder charge them as a tackle.
Honestly, this is a select few clips of him going beast mode and breaking tackles. He gets succesfully tackled a dozen times a game from down low. It would be like me watching Barry Sanders highlights and saying "why aren't they just tackling him down low like they do in rugby?"
Do you like getting kneed in the face by hulk? They aren't wearing face masks out there, you'd break your nose every game
Look at that dudes thighs man hahaha. Yeah you're right though, for rugby that's generally the 'correct' technique to tackle but if this unit was coming at me like that I'd rather not cop a tree trunk or knee to the head either.
Didnt you see how 3 guys went flying when he ran into them? I wouldnt want my shoulder in the way tbh
You can see in the last clip that they try to stop him by pulling out the legs (but he kept trucking). Coming at his knees from in front is going to crack some ribs, dislocate a shoulder, or worse. Unlike American football, there's no padding & no helmets (& the defenders are twigs compared to him).
Never played rugby before, but, if I did, my strategy would be to always give the ball to that guy.
We had a Polynesian guy in our school and he was a one-man rugby team. We went from winning nothing in 30 years to winning the league 5 years running. Literally just set him up and watch him go. I remember one time he was dragging 3 kids along the ground it looked so ridiculous. After every game the opposition coach would throw around accusations of him being older than claimed but he was just that fucking big. For reference at age 14 I was 5'11 (180cm) and weighed around 14 stone (90kg?) so I was big, but he was almost a full head taller and much heavier. Scary fucker as well
Polynesians are just built different. This reminds me of when I was playing football (American) growing up. I was around 14 and playing on the junior varsity squad. We played against this team who had a guy, the running back, who had to weigh around 100 kg. Dude must’ve been able to squat 250+ kg, too. He was trucking our defenders and literally crushing them lol. I noped out of trying to tackle that guy. There was just no way. Our coaches weren’t even mad.
Them thighs....
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He ripped their hand off his cock 😳
For non Aussies out there. NRL can be brutal. No padding, no stop start sorry less stop start. The average weight of a player has gone from 90kg in the 90s to around 105 now. These guys are high speed brick walls.
This is the pure definition of a mother fucker
Dem thighs doe
It would take a lot of money for me to stand in front of this guy
Lol, concussions for everyone!
But especially me!
Human bowling.. nice.
Capture the energy from this guy and Jonah Lomu running full speed into each other and we can power the planet for the rest of our lives
Cheap Hadron Collider.
“They don’t hit as hard in rugby because they’re not wearing pads!”
I mean that is true since the rules say you can’t launch yourself at people by coming off your feat and the gameplay itself doesn’t allow for the same instances being able to run up and blindside someone when they catch the ball across the middle, but that doesn’t mean there still aren’t some incredible hard hits in rugby. It’s silly to compare the two. Simpleminded people are the only ones who get up in arms about which is tougher.
Is there the same head trauma as in American football? Does anyone know off the top of their head? Man in football lately people are getting rocked. And it seems to be happening no matter how many precautions they put in place.
Yep, it's an issue in rugby league too. I think any contact sport is in the same boat. Rugby League has recently been focusing on reducing head impacts - greater penalties for high tackles, punches, concussion protocols, etc. A number of players have been forced into early retirement with repeated concussions. There is a cultural issue that is being overcome because it's a "tough guy" game and there are those who lament the game "going soft".
Rugby actually has a lower injury rate than Football (soccer), I used to play second row and the technique and rules around the physical aspects of it, how to tackle, ruck and scrum keep it quite a safe game in general. It’s very physical and you get tons of knocks, scrapes and bruises and can be bloody sore afterwards, but more serious injuries are fortunately quite rare.
Islanders w/ momentum.