Kicking drill
Chip and Regather
Execute a chip at full pace and win the ball back yourself.
- Time
- 20 minutes
- Players
- 1 to 6 players
- Intensity
- High
- Equipment
- Ball, cones
- Space
- 30m channel
- Positions
- Fly-halves, centres, fullbacks, wings
Setup
Open grass with a 30m run-up, cones marking a regather zone 12-15m ahead. Two or three balls.
How to run it
- Hold the ball vertically across your chest with both hands, then drop it by simply removing the supporting hand while your kicking leg comes up, applying minimal force.
- The instant it leaves your foot, sprint after it - the chip is not a kick, it is a kick-and-chase and the two are inseparable.
- Execute it at pace, chipping on your third or fourth stride without breaking stride, and regather on the full or off the first bounce.
- Progress from regathering on the bounce, to on the full, to chipping while turning off either shoulder.
- Do 4 sets of 8 with a full sprint on every rep.
Coaching cues
- Drop it, don't throw it
- Minimal force - chips fail from being over-hit
- Run onto the ball, don't wait under it
Common mistakes
- Over-hitting it into an unrecoverable up-and-under
- Stopping to kick, which telegraphs it and gives the defence time to drop back
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- Drop Kick with TargetBuild a reliable drop kick for both drop goals and restarts.
- Under the CrossbarForce a compressed, driven strike that exposes any weakness in leg speed through contact.
- Goal Kicking Quiet Eye RoutineBuild a repeatable place-kick routine around a quiet eye on the ball.
- Touchline Channel 50:22Build the low driven spiral that wins a lineout in the opposition 22 from your own half.
- Kick TennisGet high-volume punting and high-ball catching with zero retrieval walking.