Lockdown planning: Passing skills zones

When we return to play, there will be plenty of rustiness where skills have fallen away.

While our priority will be re-engaging players with games, we will still need to mix in "skill zones". This is another name for a more intense focus on a particular skill or technique.

Have a bank of skill zones ready to drop into your sessions.

Let’s focus on passing. Here are a range of activities/drills that give plenty of chances for players to catch and pass under various different levels of pressure.

• Passing chaos
• Ten-minute handling blast
• Get the ball to the wing – quick!
• Better passing technique

Each offers different ideas which can easily be set up and added as part of the warm-up, a breakout during a game or part of a carousel of activities.

Here are the other plans in our lockdown series:

• Lockdown planning: Rebuilding lineout skills
• Lockdown planning: Team games to rebuild understanding
• Lockdown planning: Better support for the ball carrier
• Lockdown planning: Bust the line
• Lockdown planning: Protecting against an overlap
• Lockdown planning: Exploiting a narrow defence
• Lockdown planning: Preventing quick ruck ball sessions
• Lockdown planning: Quick ruck ball sessions