Football players need to watch rugby...

[Jake]

...to learn how to tackle.

You never see rugby players ducking their heads and launching themselves at ball carriers, only to miss completely or bounce off them way too often. They keep their head up, lower their shoulder, and wrap their arms around the guy.

 

[BuckJr]

Or watch Alabama, can those boys tackle or what...makes me jealous to see such an elite defense Bama has. Saban reloads every year.

 

[osugrad21]

They keep their head up, lower their shoulder, and wrap their arms around the guy.

....actually, you are describing the absolutely wrong technique for tackling. A sound head-on tackle should look like a power clean....bending at knees and exploding up and through, hands firing from holsters, grabbing cloth, feet wide and active. On the angle, head across, widen base, run through...never ever bend at the waist and lead with shoulders....it happens often but is not sound. It is a product of our 'big hit' highlight shows

 

[Jake]

Well, the one thing I do know is ducking your head and blindly launching your body at a guy is not the way to do it. But if you connect and the guy flies backwards you get on a top 10 list at ESPN.

 

[Jake]

Ugh...