Shadow couldn’t help but laugh at the look on Adam’s face when he went down under Brian’s tackle.
“Try to stay loose when you fall, Adam,” he advised, never having been tackled in rugby before but having experienced enough of the same thing playing American football in high school.
“The basics are pretty simple,” he told the young man, hoping to offer a slightly more straight-forward and coherent explanation than Brian’s sporadic, if passionate, one. “The team with the ball tries to take the ball down to the other team’s goal by carrying it, passing it, or kicking it, and then either touch it to the ground for five points or drop kick it though the goalposts for three.”
He picked up the ball from where he had tossed it on the ground when they had lifted Adam and continued.
“Meanwhile the other team tries to stop you from reaching the goal and gain possession themselves by tackling the player with the ball. If the person with the ball is tackled both teams try to force each other away from the loose ball until one team recovers it and play continues.”
Most of it was pretty straight-forward, until one started getting into terms and names. Shadow hadn’t listened to enough commentary yet to have those straight; he knew some of the more common terms but was totally lost when it came to the less common ones or the positions of the players.
“Maybe we should start with something more simple, like passing?” he suggested, sending the ball back to Brian.
![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
Hope I got this right... I know nothing about rugby except what I just read on the internet. ;)
Date: 2006-08-25 04:24 am (UTC)“Try to stay loose when you fall, Adam,” he advised, never having been tackled in rugby before but having experienced enough of the same thing playing American football in high school.
“The basics are pretty simple,” he told the young man, hoping to offer a slightly more straight-forward and coherent explanation than Brian’s sporadic, if passionate, one. “The team with the ball tries to take the ball down to the other team’s goal by carrying it, passing it, or kicking it, and then either touch it to the ground for five points or drop kick it though the goalposts for three.”
He picked up the ball from where he had tossed it on the ground when they had lifted Adam and continued.
“Meanwhile the other team tries to stop you from reaching the goal and gain possession themselves by tackling the player with the ball. If the person with the ball is tackled both teams try to force each other away from the loose ball until one team recovers it and play continues.”
Most of it was pretty straight-forward, until one started getting into terms and names. Shadow hadn’t listened to enough commentary yet to have those straight; he knew some of the more common terms but was totally lost when it came to the less common ones or the positions of the players.
“Maybe we should start with something more simple, like passing?” he suggested, sending the ball back to Brian.