Rugby
How to Get Faster With Mini-Hurdle Drills
Mini-hurdle drills are one of the best tools for getting faster and more explosive. That is if they’re done right. Too often athletes will do mini-hurdle drills without a plan. [...]
How Coach Mike Friday Lead USA Rugby 7’s Team To Success
Maximizing a players' potential is not just a physical thing. There are certain life qualities to recognize and identify that will boost a players' performance. Coach Friday, said, "If you [...]
New Study Reveals the Best Area to Aim for When Making a Tackle
The safest place to target a ballcarrier when making a tackle? According to a new study from Trinity College Dublin, it’s the lower trunk. Bioengineers used a combination of video [...]
Utah Signed a Freakish 6-foot-5 Australian Rugby Star With 4.5 Speed As Their New Football Recruit
College football programs will leave no stone unturned in their quest to find the next great player. Thomas Yassmin, an Australian native who recently signed to play football at the [...]
Utah LB Pita Taumoepenu’s Incredible Journey From Tongan Fruit Farmer To NFL Draft Prospect
When Pita Taumoepenu caught his first glimpse of American football, he was 17 years old. He didn’t know a lick of English, but he knew he liked what he saw. [...]
Watch 9-Year-Old Australian Rugby Prodigy Demolish Everything in His Path
Think about the sports you were playing at age 9. Maybe you were in a community soccer league where the goalies were so afraid of being hit by the ball [...]
2 U.S. Rugby Stars Detail Their Preparation for the 2016 Olympic Games
Photo Credit: Jack McGaw for USA Sevens Rugby After a 92-year hiatus, rugby is returning to the Olympics at the 2016 Rio De Janeiro Summer Games. The format [...]
Here’s The New Tackling Technique That’s Revolutionizing Football Safety
Head injuries are changing the game of football. As researchers learn more about the long-term impacts of concussions and sub-concussive hits, the true dangers of playing football have come to [...]
Do Squats Actually Make You Faster?
We've all been told that in order to sprint faster, we just have to get stronger and squat and power clean more. But is this really the case? Here's a...
WATCH: How ‘Rugby’s Fastest Man’ Trains for Serious Speed
Carlin Isles from Massillon, Ohio, a wing on the USA Eagles Sevens rugby team, is known as the fastest man in rugby. Before his rugby career began, Isles trained to [...]