RUGBY WHIT LUCA SEVEN
Author: Gerardo Cosenza
Design: Eliana Rios Mangini
Technical information: Juan Casajús, Darío Salluzzi and Grupo de Estudios Sobre Rugby en América (GESRA)
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In 1883, in the north of the great british island, more precisely in the Scottish Borders area, a small club resists with fortitude the attacks of his creditors who threaten to make him disappear...
...but a group of brave athletes face it, without knowing that they are about to write one of the most important pages in the history of world rugby.
We have been reviewing the club’s accounts and as you already know, the situation is catastrophic...
...We must organize some type of sporting event that makes us money...
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We need you to propose ideas about a sporting event that we can carry out
I think it would be a rugby tournament...
No no, that requires a lot of people, a lot of clubs, a lot of expenses, it has to be something simpler...
Marbles with knee pad
A tictac-toe tournament Bagging race Soapy stick 6
poker cards
well, is better we sleep on it, and make a decision tomorrow
that is, gambling no no, nothing like gambling, that things then get out of control ...
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next day, at the David Sanderson’s butcher shop...
they didn’t even listen to me ...
so, Ned, what happened yesterday in the club meeting and your idea
So tell it to me, I’m all ears
nothing mr. Sanderson they just proposed nonsense
It is about a reduced rugby tournament. Seven-a-side, two times of seven minutes plus one of rest. In an hour there could be 3 matches in the same field, in 8 hours 24 matches.
I like your idea boy
Leave it in my hands, I will convince the club
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Finally, David Sanderson convinced the club’s board of directors, which voted unanimously in favor of holding the "first seven-a-side tournament" of history, held in Green Yards, south of Scotland.
the great idea of Ned Haig, who was team captain and butcher’s apprentice, came to fruition; not only with the tournament realization, but also with the victory of his team, the MELROSE, which was the first champion of the tournament.
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The ground
[Law 1]
Dimension 70 x 100 m.
Try 5 points
Conversion 2 points
Penalty try 7 points
Penalty goal 3 points
Dropped goal 3 points
[Law 8]
[half-time: 2’ ]
The objective of the game is to score as many points as possible. To do this, the ball must be placed in the in-goal of the opponent team. (that’s a try).
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Player position and roles
Fowards Backs
Kick off [Law 12]
Kick-offs are used to start each half of the match or period of extra -time. Restart kicks are used to resume play. Kick-offs are taken on or behind the centre of the half-way line. Sanction: The non-kicking team has the option of the kick being retaken or a scrum.
When the ball is kicked:
Team-mates of the kicker must be behind the ball. Sanction: Scrum. The ball must reach the 10-metre line. Sanction: The non-kicking team has the option of the kick being retaken or a scrum.
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Head Prop
Tight Head Prop
Loose
Hooker
Scrum Half Centre
Wing
Fly Half
1. Take the ball
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2. Drop the ball 3. Kick it.
drop kick
Lineout [Law 18]
Conversion [Law 8]
When a try is scored, it gives that team the right to attempt a conversion. In Rugby Seven the conversion is realised with a drop kick.
The kicker must be takes the kick within 30 seconds (Rugby Seven) from the time the try was awarded, even if the ball rolls over and has to be placed again.
The opposing team must retreat to its goal line and not cross the line until the kicker moves in any direction to begin approaching the kick. When the kicker does this, they may charge or jump to prevent a goal.
The lineout is played with a maximum of 4 players per team: the thrower and an immediate opponent; plus the 3 players waiting to receive the ball.
Scrum [Law 19]
The scrum consists of three players for each team. The three players must remain atta ched to the scrum until it ends.
The sin-bin [Law 9]
The sin bin is an area off the field where a player who has done something that is against the rules can be sent, until the regulatory time is up (Rugby Seven: 2 minutes; Rugby Union: 10 minutes).
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correct hand placement (while tackling)
Safety rules
Tackled
The contact with head or neck could be cause of sancion with card
Contact above the base of the sternum is penalized
Aim for the stomach
Aim for the thighs
Avoid the knees
Fall with the ball taken with both hands and on the chest, generating a curvature with the back.
Chin to chest.
When falling, first support your legs, then your hips, and finally your trunk.
Tackler
Raised sight, Back almost perpendicular to the floor, Shoulder pointing at the ball carrier
Controlled approach run. Framing.
Correct position of the head. Make contact with the shoulder. Close your arms KRA (keep running action).
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TACLKE ZONE
Info: GERSA
Roma has seven hills, in one of them, in the Capitol...
...was built the money factory, in the year 300 b.c.
next to the JUNO’s temple...
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JUNO was the queen of the heaven and the goddess of light... she was called "JUNO MONETA", which mean the admonisher*.
(*in latin)
as the ceca, (the money factory), was next to the temple, the money taken over that name "MONETA"
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and there were many types of coins, obolos...
And why am I telling you this?
I don’t know, I just said that I follow the Seven series... that is! and I thought of Moneta, "the money man"
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ATTENTION to the kick off that boy kicks hard, attention back there ...
OOOH! the ball is coming to me. I’ll catch it
I put myself on side, if the ball dropped, it go to back..
OOOH! a jet plane !!!
I have to put myself under the ball making a basket with the hands...
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That happens to you because you took your eyes off the ball
You’d better wear a helmet
now much better, I won’t be able to take my eyes off the ball anymore...
it’s a bit big to him
becouse for that, first I must be able TO SEE IT
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hi grandpa good day
I came to the club with my dad and he told me you were here...
hi Luca what are you doing here
you who know a lot about rugby... Do you know why they call it THREE QUARTERS?
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too easy, look, we are fordwards and we are tall like that... and then comes the HALF scrum, who is the half than us
the THREE QUARTERS are like this... 3/4 more small than us
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what you are saying is very WRONG... You can’t talk about people’s bodies like THAT
i don’t know what they are laughing at!!
come don’t bother grandpa, he is in his THIRD HALF. what are you want to know
nathing, why do they call it three quarters
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I can explain it to you...
With this chalk I am going to draw the diagram of a team
most team sports are divided into 4 sectors
In the first zone are the forwards, in the second the halfs and in the last zone the backs... and there, in the intermediate zone, in zone three, are the three quarters
that’s all WRONG!!
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stop confusing the boy and pass me the chalk...
In 1873 the Marquis of Wellington saw that the matches were chaos without order...
...so he decided to apply the principles of chivalry and...
...if we take the touch line and the in-goal line as reference, we will have a right angle
If we divide it into 4, we will have the depth angle of how they should stand in the line...
at 3/4 of the 90 degree angle, (22,5o)
but what are you telling him come on, pass me the chalk!!
that’s BULL SHIT!! pass me the chalk, let me explain it to him... why
I have to ask !!
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over the ball carrier is made up an imaginary line. all the teammates who are behind that line, will be ONSIDE and all the teammates who are before of the line, will be OFFSIDE.
when the ball is kicked, that only can be catch by the ball carrier...
...and all the teammates who are behind the ball
I AM OFFSIDE I AM ONSIDE
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the teammates who are before, must go away of the place where the ball will fall...
On top of got hit by a ball, I am punished for being reddish. I’m not REDDISH!!
not because of reddish but because of REMISS!!
if they don’t, they could be considered REMISS and be penalized
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haciendo una gran carrera!
Here comes the world champion LUCA LUCATELLI!!
He has left all his rivals behind
The best motorcycle racer in the world demonstrates his hierarchy...
...winning the race from start to finish...
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he is the best without a doubt
the spectators watch in amazement
...how the MONTE CARLO’S LIGHTNING passes
the tribune ROARS!!
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he takes the home stretch...
under the watchful eye of the judges
Last curve to reach the finish line ...
greets his opponents... ...the checkered flag is already displayed!!
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checkered flag
My mother told me that when she was a child there were no cell phones...
no Wi-Fi, no Bluetooth, no AI, no Google, no Facebook, no Instagram, no Twitter, no YouTube...
ni watsapp, ni mesenger, ni correo electr nico
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well, there were WIRED telephones, they send WRITTEN letters...
And some just talked each other this way, like we’re doing now
no hotmail, no gmail, no yahoo. so tell me, HOW did the people COMMUNICATE
it’s true, we’re communicating without the intervention of any device...
...I feel like a NEANDERTHAL
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It looks like the fingerprint of a giant, an irrefutable proof of its existence yes mum can you tell me what is this you should call NASA
i tell her about giants and she don’t believe me...
Hurry up with that, the sun is going away!! and then she believes the PROMISES of any politician
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because I was watching a documentary on television about Newton and his tree...
Hello luca how are you
Hello tree! yesterday I thought of you!...
Of course, that was my great-great-grandfather, under whose shadow, the great physicist Newton, developed THE LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVITATION
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you will see, I am LAHUAN on my father’s side and an APPLE TREE, on my mother’s side...
You’re fooling me!!! the newton’s tree was an APPLE TREE, and you are a LAHUAN!!!
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I want brains
...today I made you parmesan brains with baked potatoes
I’m a hungry zombie and I like to eat brains
wash your hands and come to lunch
We zombies don’t wash our hands
This is cauliflower and it smells really bad
is your lucky day!!
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Of course, because it is a special food for zombies that do not eat meat vegetarian zombies that eat brains with FARTS smell
worthy of a NETFLIS series
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Quite an experience to live in fear, ISN’T IT
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...That’s what it is to be a slave...
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He falls!! but
the REPLICANT* saves rick from falling into the void
Yes of course, what did you expect
it save him
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I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe...
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of ORION...
...like tears in rain...
don’t let that be lost! download them on a PENDRIVE...
Luca, the replicants didn’t have USB output
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannh user Gate... All those moments will be lost in time...
what a fail of the Tirrel Corporation!!!
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*REPLICANT: a fictional bioengineered humanoid featured in the 1982 film Blade Runner
how good it is to be lying on the beach on vacation just listening to the sea
So Luca, how’s the sand castle going a castle seemed too medieval to me...
I leaned towards something more dynamic
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the cathedral of st. basil seems more appropriate to me
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oh! it’s pass eleven, time to take cover... let’s break camp!
come on Luca!! BUT!! what happened to st. basil
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It became a NUCLEAR SHELTER...
I did it when I noticed that the plastic bucket and the shovel... started to melting
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