Rugby union needs a contact skill-training programme

Sharief Hendricks^{1

2}, Kevin Till^{1

3}, James Craig Brown^{2

4}, Ben Jones^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure, Centre for Sport Performance, School of Sport, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK.
² Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
³ Yorkshire Carnegie Rugby Union Football Club, Headingley Carnegie Stadium, Leeds, UK.
⁴ Department of Public & Occupational Health and the EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Editorial

Sharief Hendricks et al. Br J Sports Med. 2017 May.

. 2017 May;51(10):829-830.

doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2016-096347. Epub 2016 Nov 7.

Sharief Hendricks^{1

2}, Kevin Till^{1

3}, James Craig Brown^{2

4}, Ben Jones^{1

3}

¹ Institute for Sport, Physical Activity and Leisure, Centre for Sport Performance, School of Sport, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK.
² Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
³ Yorkshire Carnegie Rugby Union Football Club, Headingley Carnegie Stadium, Leeds, UK.
⁴ Department of Public & Occupational Health and the EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

No abstract available

Keywords: Contact sports; Implementation; Rugby; Training.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.