Why do rugby players scrum and maul at such different body heights

Title:
Why do rugby players scrum and maul at such different body heights?
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Summary:
The body height of rugby players in mauls tends to be very much higher than in scrums. High bo

Keywords:
scrum,maul,rugby scrum,rugby maul,bodyheight,Laws of Rugby

Article Body:
Scrums and mauls are the two great dominance contests within the game of rugby. Marked superio

Forward packs spend countless hours developing scrum technique but very much less attention is

Unlike the scrum, the Laws are largely silent on what players can do in the maul. Within the m
One very marked difference between the two contests is that in the scrum either pack, whether

I believe that players can be trained to maul much more effectively and the secret is body hei


The body height adopted by the first players engaging from each team usually defines the heigh

Compare the likely height of this maul with the body height of the same players in a scrum sit

If the first defending player were to bind around the thighs of his opponent rather than the w

While front row players in the scrum are prohibited from "lifting or forcing an opponent up" (

While mauls are often formed in an unstructured way, many of them emerge from static engagemen

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