Rugby is the greatest thing to play, this past summer I played with the U18 and the teir 3 mens teams when I was only 16. THere was some scary hits but once you get hit you just want to keep playing more and more cuz you becaome numb to the pain and want to dish your anger on some unfortunate guys a$$.
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If I were you I'd reconsider that attitude, that is the perfect way to get yourself hurt.
If you dont give 100% when tackling, hitting, mauling or rucking in rugby, you will get hurt.
Played Rugby right through high school (although Rowing was always my first sport) played Centre. Aside from one broken arm when I was 15 I didn't have any injury problems with it. I always considered American Football pretty wussy wearing all that armour 
One advice I will give you though, and someone else has already said it, but play hard. If you're going to tackle, tackle hard. If you're going to take a hit up, hit it hard. Going in half-hearted is how you get hurt.
One advice I will give you though, and someone else has already said it, but play hard. If you're going to tackle, tackle hard. If you're going to take a hit up, hit it hard. Going in half-hearted is how you get hurt.
Let me guess, along with your sig you must be a small and scrawny cardio bunny right? There are different positions in rugby so the smaller and faster guys like Habana play on the wing (Habana can reportedly bench 350lbs BTW when not racing cheetahs) actually Lomu was 6 ft 5 inches and played on the wing so its crap saying if you are of a certain body set you can/cannot play rugby.
Luv rugby, but i've busted myself too many times playing it! It's a really challenging sport because you need Aerobic/Anaerobic fitness, strength, speed and agility. Plus position specific skills. It's a great game. The sport of Kings!
I've been playing rugby for 2 years now (yes i'm a girl) and i love it. I've never really been injured just a few niggles and lots of bruises. I'm disappionted if I don't hurt the day after a game and have at least a few bruises
I play and coach rugby for a local team and having made the transition from football (soccer) (county level), via badminton (reasonably high local level) to rugby (local level) I have to say for me Rugby is the winner, not necessarily because of the physical side of the sport, but because of the social aspects. I have never been in an environment more open, warm and giving as rugby. Football I found to be full of 'chavs' and thugs, badminton full of people who have ideas way above their station in life and whilst I will admit rugby is a little 'posh' it is a growing and evolving sport which is branching out within the communities it touches in many many ways. My side for example have hosted five local events at the club as well as a further six community events for the rest of this year (out of season).
Yes rugby IS a physical sport and in contact sports people get injured, but that is true in EVERY contact sport. The kind of injuries you see on the football pitch are just as serious as the ones you see on the football pitch (American) which are as serious as the ones you see on a rugby pitch, they are just different for example so far in 2009 there have been two professional footballers (soccer) die on the pitch of heart failures...There is a lot of stigma that surrounds all these kind of sports with little niche saying like;
“Football is a gentleman’s game played by thugs and rugby is a thug’s game played by gentlemen.”
During my time playing football I was threatened several times (by players and parents), during my time playing rugby I have been given a nice shiny black eye on the pitch and a pat on the back and a drink in the clubhouse so for me from the guy who did it. So for me the above statement is very true...but that is MY experience of rugby.
The physical aspects of rugby are fantastic I can not think of another sport where so many varying types of physical motions are required...one minute your jumping for a high ball, then side stepping to avoid someone, the next your making contact with someone, then pushing/pulling, then sprinting and that is all within one or two phases of play. The continuity that the laws try to adhere to regarding open play make the physical demands are great, also very rewarding!
So my suggestion is go for rugby. You might like it, you might not, maybe you’re supposed to be a footballer (in either sense) or maybe you’re the next gymnastics star of your country but you need to find out for yourself and not listen to other people from other sports lay down their version of rough justice on any sport!
Yes rugby IS a physical sport and in contact sports people get injured, but that is true in EVERY contact sport. The kind of injuries you see on the football pitch are just as serious as the ones you see on the football pitch (American) which are as serious as the ones you see on a rugby pitch, they are just different for example so far in 2009 there have been two professional footballers (soccer) die on the pitch of heart failures...There is a lot of stigma that surrounds all these kind of sports with little niche saying like;
“Football is a gentleman’s game played by thugs and rugby is a thug’s game played by gentlemen.”
During my time playing football I was threatened several times (by players and parents), during my time playing rugby I have been given a nice shiny black eye on the pitch and a pat on the back and a drink in the clubhouse so for me from the guy who did it. So for me the above statement is very true...but that is MY experience of rugby.
The physical aspects of rugby are fantastic I can not think of another sport where so many varying types of physical motions are required...one minute your jumping for a high ball, then side stepping to avoid someone, the next your making contact with someone, then pushing/pulling, then sprinting and that is all within one or two phases of play. The continuity that the laws try to adhere to regarding open play make the physical demands are great, also very rewarding!
So my suggestion is go for rugby. You might like it, you might not, maybe you’re supposed to be a footballer (in either sense) or maybe you’re the next gymnastics star of your country but you need to find out for yourself and not listen to other people from other sports lay down their version of rough justice on any sport!
agree with you there chrispike - football(soccer) is full of people who cant leave things on the pitch.
ive had hammerings and given hammerings on a rugby field and all is forgotten when the whistle blows.
football(soccer) feuds can carry on for years.
ive had hammerings and given hammerings on a rugby field and all is forgotten when the whistle blows.
football(soccer) feuds can carry on for years.
hi, i've played rugby for years and never been injured. i play openside flanker and i love it because you get to do everything: tackling/sprinting/dodging etc. i find when tackling the massive ones if you grab their ankles then they are easy to take down. although i personally prefer the sprinting.
i prefer it to football (english), which (in my school at least) is full of ***s who think they're hard, but when you slide them they start crying.
i prefer it to football (english), which (in my school at least) is full of ***s who think they're hard, but when you slide them they start crying.