How Do You Perform The Rugby Goose Step? Describe It?
I’m a little frustrated. I’ve asked this question for the third time, and the first two attempts were asked over a long time period. I did not get a sufficient on both tries. Is it that no one knows how to perform one?
Please try your best to describe the goose step, as in its purpose and how to perform. All I can ever find online is that David Campese first started using it. I don’t have anyone (coach, other players) to turn to.
You basically run up to someone jump in the air, swing your legs around for a biyy then when you hit the ground chnage direction sharpley, lol
Karmichael Hunt was the best at it before he went kamikaze
Its just a jump to the left.. and then a step to the right
With your hands on your hips lol sorry couldn’t resist that
Im guessing your serious about this step - Its not a step that can be taught its just a step that comes natural to players - In NZ alot of the players use it as a diversion - to make out ur going to run one way but you go the other… Have a look at the touch rugby teams and you’ll see them doing it alot
Above have explained how you do it but your better off viewing it then reading it
Goose Step and side step are 2 different things (However they can become one if you wanted to do it). Goose step is more of a stutter step where you walk/run forward on an angle and you are a few metres from the defender you slow your run down exaggerating the step you are taking, then you power off you your back leg on the same line you are running. A side step is where you drag your opponent to one director and beat him by stepping back on to his inside. Benji Marshall was doing both well before Karmichael as Benji was doing this in his early teens in NZ Touch. Possibly the best Side Stepper around that I’ve seen play was Remis Gentles from NZ Touch a few years back but now days every person has there own flavour. People do Slide steps, jump steps, running in the air steps, double side steps (they step one way and then back the otherway), goose steps, fake steps but in the end it is what beats the man. Here’s a clip to hopefully give you some ideas of stepping.http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=sMY0lvn52H…
Havent got any footage for ya but if you could find something on Benji Marshall, im sure watching him will give you a fair idea, he’s got the mean steps.
I think Benji is probably the best I’ve seen as yet, although if you were to go to a Touch tournament in NZ, everyone there is doing it. Played against Benji back in the days, when he played in a team called Pokaitara!! He had both down to a tee then, yet he was only in his teens. He practiced stepping cracks on the footpath, and a lot of backyard footy. A Goose step is pretty much a thing of timing, as is a side step too. I guess with a goose step you need to maintain your line, but change your stride to a slower pace, to the point where your almost motionless for a split second, but if your foot was to hit the turf, you still have the pace to take off full throttle. As for a side step in my opinion, this is just trying to catch the opposing player/s off guard by trying to make them choose what way going to go. If you do it well enough, they won’t be able to pick which way you’re going to go. Better yet if you can step off both feet, makes it easier. I’m only a left foot stepper. A lot of players in NZ, tend to jump in the air and do a bit of shuffle, and some step off their right foot, but end up going left, and so forth.