Year 9 - Physical education
Gaining confidence in contact
Invasion games: adapt tactics and strategies in contact sports
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Unit Summary
This unit explores ways to adapt tactics and strategies in full-contact sports like rugby. Pupils will learn how to respond to specific types of breakdown such as free kicks, rucks, mauls and scrums as they seek solutions to gain territory, maintain momentum and counterattack.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to make contact safely with someone else to prevent them advancing with the ball.
Key Notes
- Move: keeping your head to the side and leading with your shoulder makes tackling safer and reduces risk of injury.
- Move: wrapping your arms fully around an opponent will help control the tackle and bring them down effectively.
- Think: making contact above the shoulders is illegal and puts players at serious risk of injury.
- Feel: confidence comes from practising correct technique and trusting your body in each tackle.
- Connect: adjusting the intensity applied to a tackle helps build confidence in less experienced/smaller players.
Vocabulary To Learn
- tackle: a defender brings the ball carrier down to the ground
- confidence: the degree to which a performer believes they have the ability to perform and complete tasks with success
- contact: physical interaction between players where touching, holding or tackling is allowed as part of the game
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Tackling harder always makes it more effective.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: keeping your head to the side and leading with your shoulder makes tackling safer and reduces risk of injury. Move: wrapping your arms fully around an opponent will help control the tackle and bring them down effectively.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'tackle'
a defender brings the ball carrier down to the ground.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Tackling harder always makes it more effective. Correction: Controlled technique, not force, makes a tackle successful and reduces the chance of injury or penalties.
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