How to play touch rugby?

Question

rules and regulation on how to play touch rugby for person who never know anything bout rugby

Answer 1

Touch Rugby orTouch Football is played with the following modified rules:

1. You have 6 or 7 a side (varies with each state or country)

2. Defence must stay 5 metres away from attacking team playing the ball.

3. When a player is touched, he/she must roll the ball between their legs (there is no 3 step or 3 second rule as was suggested by another person who has his sports mixed up)

4. The dummy half (person picking up the ball from the roll ball) can run with it but if touched then must change possession to the other team.

5. Each team have 6 touches to try and score over the opponents line by placing the ball.

6. No one may kick the ball at all throughout the whole game

7. 1 point for each try is awarded.

8. Defence cannot move up to touch an opponent until the player who was orginally touched has played or rolled the ball between his/her legs.

9. Games usually are 20 to 25 minute halves

10. No forward passes and a penalty is given to the opposing team if this does occur

There are many rules but hopefully these will get you started

Answer 2

knee the opponent in the berries.

Answer 3

well instead of tackling the ball carrier you tip the on the waist with both hands, they then have either 3steps or 3seconds to release or or pass away the ball, then you must get back the required distance depending on the ref and size of a pitch for the next phase. For offence you should keep running forward and using quick feet to avoid your opponent instead of strenght.

Once you are tipped the same applies for you, you have 3 steps or 3 seconds to off-load!

Answer 4

Rule variations

There is no single set of rules for touch rugby. Touch rugby is often played informally, rather like a pick-up soccer game might be played, since as a light contact sport there is no need for strict third-party refereeing. In addition to tackles being replaced by touches, the rules of both rugby codes are often simplified, removing elements such as scrums, rucks, mauls, line-outs and kicks.

The most popular, codified form of touch rugby is derived from rugby league and played under the auspices of the Federation of International Touch (FIT). It is officially known as Touch or touch football in Australia, and as six down in South Africa. FIT rules are popular not only with those playing in games organized under the auspices of FIT, but also when playing informal games of touch rugby. The version of the FIT rules known as one touch in South Africa features a change of possession after a single touch rather than the eponymous six in the league-derived game.

Other version of touch rugby are not fully codified, so when strangers wish to play together they have to revert to the early days of rugby and agree on the rules before they start. For example, as an aid for fitness training rugby players will sometimes play touch rugby based on modified rules of Touch or Rugby Sevens. One common variation is that a fair touch must be below the waist.

Other variations on Touch include punting to increase the speed of the game, but all punts must be caught in the air otherwise the kick is considered a knock-on. To encourage rucking, a small non-contact ruck may be formed when a player is "touched". The "touched" player must fall to the ground as he would if he were tackled, and then two players from the attacking team must "ruck" over him within three seconds to keep possession of the ball. A scrum-half then recovers the ball, and play continues.

In the United States, touch is usually played following pre-1967 rugby league rules, minus kicking. Players being touched with two hands must place the ball down or play the ball at the spot of the "tackle," and the defensive team must retreat 5 yards or meters. There is often no tackle count, meaning that almost the only way that the defence can obtain the ball is through offensive mistakes. Whenever an offensive infraction occurs (ball into touch, knock-on, or forward pass), the defence receives a tap-kick at the spot of the infraction. Teams switch sides after each try is scored, and the team scoring the try kicks off from the halfway point.

Until 2003/2004 the English RFU in its junior development program called The Three Stages of the Rugby Continuum encouraged the playing of Non-contact/touch rugby in its under-eights competition, although now promotes Mini Tag instead.