What is the best way to understand rugby?

tkedwn119: What is the best way to understand rugby?
Today I checked out a book from the library about rugby hopping it would finally enlighten me to this mysteriously violent sport. However the book just confused me farther, using “hooker” or “half-scrum” in other definitions don’t work well when you don’t know what they are either. I need an explanation of rugby for complete idiots of the game, where can I get that?

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Answer by Phil Sage
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eO0O5zdavOkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=rugby+for+dummies&source=bl&ots=UqzsqUAjSU&sig=lUhtHyjUP3gsntwdQ8fpiluhwkc&hl=en&ei=grw_TN7KBYnu0wSLmvSDBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

That is Rugby for Dummies, a full online book.

Answer by The RiDdLeR
Find someone who knows the game and watch a game with them. They can tell you all the facets of it. As for Rugby for Dummies, I believe that is the coaching manual for the South African coach Peter De Villiers.

Answer by Palsied Grasp®™
It’s a bunch of overweight men running into each other and falling over. Then they scrabble around with each other on the grass for 10 minutes.

Answer by Katlego
Watch it wit sumbdy hu undastndz it…

Answer by blm
“Rugby for Dummies” is a good book It is geared to North American audiences, so it assumes no prior knowledge.

That said, there’s not actually that much you need to know to have a good grasp of the game. Just a few basic concepts.

Basics — you advance the ball by running with or kicking it. Any passing has to be lateral or backwards. The other team defends by trying to tackle the ball carrier. Teams score by advancing the ball over the oppositions try line, or kicking it through the “H“ shaped uprights on the line.

The most fundamental rule is the offside rule, which requires that players play from their own side of the ball — particularly on offense. Offensive players must be behind the ball carrier, which means that blocking is illegal. Get between the ball carrier and a defender and you get penalized. Passes must be backwards or lateral, which mades sense seeing as the passer’s teammates must be behind him. You can boot the ball forward to another player (or yourself), so long as the receiver was level with or behind the kicker at the time of the kick.

You also need to understand that is that play (unlike American football) doesn’t stop at the tackle — or in rugby terms, the “breakdown”. A tackled player has to release the ball and then both teams compete for it in a play called a “ruck”. It just looks like a massive pile of random bodies to those unfamiliar with rugby, but they are really quite organized. The rules of rucking — which are quite strict as to how and where your enter a ruck — give the offensive team a significant advantage in retaining possession, but it is by no means a sure thing. Every tackle gives the defence a reasonable shot at turning over the ball.

Those two ideas cover the play for a about 95% of the time. There are other rules for special situations which involve scrums, mauls and lineouts, but you don’t need to go into that much detail to understand the game’s general flow.

If you want more details, Wikipedia also has a pretty good article called “playing rugby union”. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_rugby_union

Answer by Michelle Nur
watch Rugby game live online, this is the best way

https://liverugbygame.blogspot.com/