We learnt rugby when we went to secondary school at 11 years old. We played rugby at school in the winter, and cricket in the summer.

There is a concept you need to understand. I've never seen it mentioned in any Rugby Laws video. ADVANTAGE I can't think of any of our American sports that use 'advantage'. The closest thing is in Football. When a penalty or foul occurs the Ref throws a flag, then after the play they ask the non offenders weather they want the penalty or the play. In rugby the ref decides for you. What happens when the ref sees an infraction he will call out that the non offending team has an advantage ("Advantage Red") and then he will watch what happens. If the offending team gains any advantage the whistle blows and play stops. If however the non offending team gains a sufficient advantage the infraction is ignored. If you are on the attack and you hear the ref say that you have an advantage you know it's time to break out the high risk/reward plays because you know that if you screw it up play will be brought back to wherever the infraction happened and that you will be given possession. I first saw/joined rugby in 1972 at the age of 20.

Some advice. Don't expect to learn all the rules. It gets bery complicated at the professional level. Even if you don't understand, just enjoy the game.

Great fun for me watching you guys learning, I played rugby, both union and league, from when I was 10 until I was in my mid 40's. Once you've picked up the basic rules, I'd advise watching some top level games, the refs are mic'd up and always explain what their decisions are. Have fun.

League is closer to American football. Australia is heavy into rugby league. Union is globally far more common.

Pitch Noun: an area painted with lines for playing particular sports the level or degree of something the degree to which a sound or a musical note is high or low a speech or act that attempts to persuade someone to buy or do something a place in a public area where a person regularly sells goods or performs the amount of slope, especially of a roof a thick, black substance that was used in the past to make wooden ships and buildings waterproof a throw in a baseball game the piece of ground on which you can put up a tent, park a caravan, etc

US rugby player here. Started playing at 15 since my high school had it, now 12 years later I’m still playing for the local men’s club. Very likely if you live anywhere near a big city in the US that you could catch a live men’s club match somewhere nearby!

Around min: 4:24 Putting the ball down is equivilent to actually scoring the "touch down" which is called a try. Its called a try because historically it used to equate to 3 point but now has evolved to 5 points. 8:10 Droping the ball behind you (behind you means it must land behind the position of your feet or front foot) which does not result in a foul since the ball is played or passsed backwards, which is just a continuation of play. So play continues as normal and anyone can collect to continue play thus holding possesion. 12:50 Yeah a ruck and mall is similar to scrum but has signifcant differeces as scrum has 8 players and starts from a stoppage in play usually resulting from a foul like a "knock on" when the ball is drop forward which is infront of the players feet but a ruck and mall is in continued play with any number of players (so the whole team can join). So ruck essentially involves securing the ball (where the defending team needs to ensure the players push the defending team back whilst the ball is behind them when pushing availing it for the scrumhalf to collect and distribute) leading to the mall which is more of the pushing type thing which reflects which team has forward momentum hence continuation of play. Kindly excuse the long explains otherwise. Try to makesure I informaly include common vocabulary as much as possible. 🤭

"The scrum-half will roll the ball STRAIGHT into the middle of the scrum". 🤣😂🤣😂. I would reccommend you watch a rugby match and tell me if this is true. 🤣😂🤣

I watched rugby in the 80s and played from the 90s to about 2015...its the best team game in the world where your against it as you have to go backwards to move forward..love the game and youre right its physical but thats what we love about it :-) so glad youre getting into it :-)

What you saw are the basic rules taught at the most elementary level of rugby. Things get a little technical and complex as you watch more or play more rugby.

What does pitch mean in England? pitch noun (SPORTS FIELD) UK. (US field) an area painted with lines for playing particular sports, especially soccer: a soccer/hockey/cricket pitch.

In the UK we play Rugby in School from a young age. Many towns and villages have their own local teams. I’ve played since I was about 8 yrs old

Taken to my first match at two, still going sixty years later!

Most kids start playing from the age of 5-7

Have you watched the Ninh Explains video you have in your thumbnail?

In the scrum, with your arms locked in place with the players either side of you, the opposite team grow/sprout additional arms, and start punching you in the face... This was a skill/ability I never aqcuired and resulted in my retirement from Rugby after just a few games... Though I spent several decades in the Rugby club, sampling the cheapest beer and spirits available in the country! "Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home"

Sports Explained’s ‘Rugby for American Football Fans’ is a great video, highly recommended it - he covers Union and League

If you start by being shocked that the field could be called a pitch, then there is not much hope that you will grasp anything to do with the game itself. Put the ball down? It's called a touchdown. In Rugby that means you touch the ball down. In NFL a touchdown means you don't touch the ball down. At school I played two sports - rowing and rugby.

Hi Guys I started to play Rugby Union aged 14, at school which is older than many kids. Local clubs run mini rugby for boys and girls with a starting age of 5/6. The older kids are known as juniors 9,10.11,12,13, then the 14 to 17's are known as colts. At 18 you can play in the adult team, but many clubs run under 20's or 21 teams before intergrating the young people it depends on their individual body size/strength and mental maturity. I am a big man 6ft 1 tall and wieghing 250lbs so was playing with the men from age 17. Most rugby clubs in England field many different teams not only for the kids but the adults also. One club I played for fielded 6 teams each week. The first team was the best and competion to play in the firsts was huge, you then had a 2nd, 3rd teams ranked in merit then the last three teams were all of an equal standing. The idea was to allow as many people with as many different ability and ages to be able to play. You always started in the lower teams and worked your way up. Equally as you aged and your speed and fitness declined you would drop down but the great thing about that was you could pass your skills and knowledge onto the younger plays. When i started playing at 17 some of my team mates were old enough to be my dad. At one club we fielded a grandfather, his son and the grandson in the various teams. To score a try you must place the ball over the try line onto the ground with it under control and positive downward pressure. Unlike football where you just have to get over the line with the ball. The best thing about rugby is its social side. Once you come off the pitch all hostilities are forgoton and buying your oposite number a pint in the bar was always the order of the day, despite the fact you had takled or been tackled very hard during the game. Sometime tempers ignite and punches get thrown on th pitch, but you always make up in the bar. By the way throwing punches will see you sent off and a penalty awarded against your team. Enjoy our great game. Did you know the USA plays internationals and has both mens and womens teams, check that out.

If they drops the ball behind they play on like nothing happened

It’s hard to believe the real violence is not part of the game anymore

Little kids in New Zealand play Ripper Rugby (sort tag rugby) usually at 5 years old . It is Rugby without the contact. Ball skills are taught and team work as well as sportmanship. Then as the kids get older they start playing Rugby in age grades.

No, the Most brutal and one of the oldest Sports is Calcio Storico where the Teams of Florence in italy Play against each other 1 time in the year. The Most beatiful time to visit this great city

You got off to a bad start there. There are no "Rules" in Rugby Union. They are called "Laws".

The "pitch" is the name given to Rugby, Hockey, Cricket and Football (soccer) playing surfaces in the rest of the world. The word PITCH comes from OLD ENGLISH and OLD NORSE languages meaning " to thrust" or "to throw".

1) Putting the ball down before you run out the back you would refer as a touchdown. We refer to it as a try. 2) dropping the ball behind you / everyone carries on playing.

lads for one of the greatest extra time drop-goals and combined team effort in the red (over 80mins and the ball has to be kept alive) see Sexton's drop goal for Ireland against in the French 2018

In New Zealand, they often refer the pitch as the paddock!

one important thing she didn't explain was that after a try is scored the kick for the 2 extra points must be in a line with where the ball was touched down this is why you often see players running closer to the posts before they touch the ball down - it makes the kick for extra points easier - contrast that with your Football the kick for an extra point is always placed in the centre of the field

Rugby in South Africa is a way of life.

You have to touch the ball to the floor to score a “Try” this where the term “Touch Down” comes from. The ball has to be touched down between the touch line and the end line, if you go to far and pass the end line you’ve missed your chance to score a touch down. This is important to learn because if there is a tussle on the touch line it is possible for the defending team player to put his hand under the ball and stop a touch, the ref will watch and use camera replay to verify his decision of touch or no touch. Ok? Cheers both

Watch France v South Africa in world cup 23. Best game I've seen

I laughed when she said the scrum half feeds the ball into the scrum in the middle! That never happens!

hi guys - you seemed confused by the word 'pitch' - that is just the general term we use for a sports ground covered in grass - sportsmen (and women) play on football pitches, rugby pitches, cricket pitches and so on ... farmers put horses, cows or sheep in fields - we don't play games in fields because farmers, tractors or bulls might chase us

They have to put the ball down on or behind the try line but before the dead ball line

Fields are for growing crops

This is video is old - at the scrum the ball is no longer put into the middle - it is now usually put under or behind the feet of the hooker ( the man in the middle of the front row) in the team whose half back is putting it in the scrum. The two teams depicted are England in the white and New Zealand in the black - it is rare for England to beat the New Zealand team who are one of the most successful teams in any sport worldwide. They have played - 41 times with New Zealand winning 33 times, 2 draws and England have won 8.

You guys know football - the absolute easiest way to get rugby is to think that it's a bit like football but is ALWAYS a rushing play - because passes have to be laterals or backwards. If the ball moves forward through the air, it has to come off your foot, not off your hands. Get that and you only have a couple of things to leave out from your knowedge of football. The first is that you can't block - only the guy with the ball can be tackled. The other thing to forget from football - the idea of play stopping after a down. That's where the whole "ruck and maul" bit comes from - the player with the ball gets tackled and hte ball is still in play - if the tackled player stays on their feet it's a maul and you're competing for the ball with your hands. If they go down it's a ruck and you're competing for it with your feet. Oh, and "offense", "defence" and "special teams" don't exist. Think of it like taking your offensive, defensive snd kicking lines and picking one team of 15 players from all the players in all three - and you have to cover all the skills in there, becuase that one team you pick is playing for 80 minutes straight. Know football, get that, and you know enough rugby to start to really appreciate the game I played and loved (still do love it, although I don't play no more) from school though uni, despite it costing me a few teeth (when you're under the bottom of a maul and your face gets stood on with cleats, sometimes a mouthguard just aint enough) and ended up with a career-ending injury that made my left arm set off airport metal detectors.

I started playing at age 8. Right up until I changed to ice hockey at age 22.

In New Zealand we watch and play rugby from birth.

The UK is tiny compared to USA. I got the feeling a pitch comes from using any pitch/patch of land/space u can find in a built up city that's short of green space. We do use the term sports field used for various sports. Also field in agricultural land.

In countries that are dominant in Rugby ... kids start watching from the time they born . And start playing kiddies rugby until they can play school rugby. So rugby dominant countries people understand the laws of rugby but because there are so many, you continually learn... but it's great to know that people are being introduced to rugby and willing to learn the laws in order to enjoy the game. League is faster but Union in my opinion is more exciting even though younger generation prefers league

You go over the try line and you have to place the ball on the ground. Ironically you have to touch it down, whereas in American football you simply have to cross the line with the ball in your hands

Re: scoring - that's the odd difference between Rugby and American Football which shows their common origins. You call it a touchdown but you don't actually have to touch it down. In Rugby you do have to touch it down, but it's called a try!

i like how are playing england and the mighty all blacks - one of the very few games they ever got the upper hand

To score yu must touch the ball to the ground while fully in control of it. If the ball does not touch the ground probably because an opposing player slips a hand or other body part between ball and ground there is no score.

It's pretty much only called a pitch in the UK, most other countries it's a field. Those are just the basic rules to understand the game, there's more to know and they keep changing the rules every year. Rugby League is easier to follow.

This isn't Ninh Explains; it's from the RFU website.

"It got rules, but not too many..." Oh bless, you innocent little Americans! There is one rule you should always respect - the Referee is God. Check out Nigel Owens, recently retired Welsh referee.

guys when you mentioned puttting the ball down, just to help, first when they put the ball down, there has to be a hand on the ball, be in control and there has to be downward pressure, for example, if the player gets over the line and only has one finger on the ball, its no try, no downward pressure and not in control

Y'all should follow the Eagles (USMNT). They're in the lower orders but they're rising fast.

Check out some pictures of Rugby player's ears. They are known as cabbages😂

You must "touch the ball down" - touchdown is named that for a reason. A defending player can actually hold the ball up, preventing a touchdown. I played both Union and League at school - and later Union in the Army. Much prefer Union - rucks and mauls making such a huge difference to the flow of play. Enjoy! PS I believe "pitch" is word used that pre-dated actually football, rugby or cricket ground - you claimed a "pitch" for a tent or a stall or a fairground, from "pitching a tent" - or deciding to start a sporting event, claiming the pitch.

WTF. That was fire, the DISBELIEF. Lady Di explaining with cartoon sketch's. Bless u for the prima donna comment. Union always brings out the Jethro Clampett response in Americans. One is a apartheid game the other is working class sport. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nNVyadVo2L2upKM.html

If you reacting to rugby then you MUST check out the attacking GOAT Jonah Lomu - Lord of the Wings, video doesn't get struck and it's the best highlights package.

that video isn't really the best to learn from to be honest. You guys will definitely get more out of this one. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/isuEdZx_yafDdmw.html

ngl this is prop the worst rule video out there... she doesnt even explain stuff like where a conversation after a try is placed. Forward passes ?? 22 Dropout ?? Whats a yellow or a red card ?? The mark ?? Punting into touch ?? There's a lot thats missing

Rugby has laws not rules.

Y"all Duh yeah Dum dee daa!!! speak English!!!!!

Word of warning with rugby Union. If you watch a full game you run the risk of falling into a coma. The length of the game, including stoppages, is around 100 minutes. The amount of action totals approximately 30 mins. Referee stops the game every few seconds. If you want a simpler version which is many times more exciting, try NRL (National Rugby League). The action is non stop and end to end. You should definitely watch some NRL. Ideas.

There are no fucking rules in Rugby! You only have laws. Don't break the Laws.

The Guy on the Left is too busy with his phone!

There are no rules in rugby its law

Rugby Union is a game with so many rules and laws that it is not fully understood by anyone. A really stupid sport.

This is NOT a good explanation of rughy rules. The Ninh video is much better.

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Can you tell that this was Eglish. So glad they never showed a whole match.

THE RULES? YOU ARE LITTLE, YOU RUN !! BECAUSE YOUR "FRIEND", THE BIG ONE , DONT WANT YOU TO RUN... WITH A BALL... THATS IT 😂😂 You are from Usa? So, i kept it simple... you can't compare with anything you have. 1 RULE: ALL FRIENDS. THEN, FOR 80 MINUTES , YOU BREAK YOUR FRIENDS. ❤❤❤