The scrum simulator is in the shape of a six-legged robot, relying on a six-axis motion system to respond to player inputs (force and motion) via sensors installed behind the beams/shoulder pads.

De Kock is a former learner at the Du Preez Road school in Alberton North. The training on March 24 saw De Kock take the players through scrum-half training and being effective in backline play.

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This discussion piece proposes that rugby needs a contact skill-training programme that includes all contact forms—ruck, scrum, maul, line-out, tackling and ball carrying into contact. The programme ...

The scrum becomes many things: a psychological weapon, a platform to attack, and a defensive tactic. As a psychological tactic, the scrum that dominates can mentally take eight men out of the match.

It’s a bold venture. Douglas Schoninger, a 55-year-old former bond trader who has never played rugby, founded the league with the blessing of USA Rugby and is bankrolling it himself.

Rugby's big men have found a vocal supporter in an unlikely place after pint-sized Wallabies back Andrew Kellaway shot down the notion of a scrum clock for Super Rugby Pacific.

The programme is being expanded over the next 18 months to 8,000 teenagers, athletes and coaches in 21 cities - mainly in northern England - as part of the Rugby League World Cup 2021.