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Drop kicking

Ardillaun · 2012-11-22 05:23:17

Rugby has changed beyond all recognition in the last ten years but is drop kicking improving as much? I'm struck by the number of fairly easy kicks that are missed that would make Jannie de Beer (at least at his best in that England WC game in 1999) shudder http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9wLdJ3weaI). Should this aspect of…

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Rugby has changed beyond all recognition in the last ten years but is drop kicking improving as much? I'm struck by the number of fairly easy kicks that are missed that would make Jannie de Beer (at least at his best in that England WC game in 1999) shudder

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9wLdJ3weaI).

Should this aspect of the game be practised more? I see a South African group has produced an article on the strategic significance of drop kicking:

http://www.jssm.org/vol9/n1/7/v9n1-7pdf.pdf

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