Year 9 - Physical education
Tackling and getting into a defensive line
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 tackle with confidence and work in defence to stop the attacking team from advancing.
Key Notes
- Move: a low and agile body position is assumed to make a well timed and safe tackle.
- Move: tracking the attacker's hips helps maintain balance and stay in line for an effective tackle.
- Think: getting back onside after a tackle allows your team to stay organised and avoid giving away a penalty.
- Feel: confidence to make a safe tackle with either shoulder comes from repetition at increasing intensity.
- Connect: working in a flat line in defence enables a team to cover space and support each other when making tackles.
Vocabulary To Learn
- play the ball: the action where a tackled player rolls the ball backward with the foot to restart play
- try: when a player grounds the ball in the opponent's in-goal area, earning 4 points
- defensive line: the formation of defending players spread across the field to prevent the attacking team from advancing and scoring
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils forget that after making a tackle, they need to get back onside in a straight line.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: a low and agile body position is assumed to make a well timed and safe tackle. Move: tracking the attacker's hips helps maintain balance and stay in line for an effective tackle.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'play the ball'
the action where a tackled player rolls the ball backward with the foot to restart play.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils forget that after making a tackle, they need to get back onside in a straight line. Correction: Response: after a tackle, the whole defensive line need to be back onside 10m from the play of the ball. If you are not moving as a flat line, you leave gaps for attackers to break through.
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