on a rugby field? Two of you, kicking for territory, trying to out kick your opponent. I think if you caught it on the full you gained steps. It was one point for a punt over the poles, two for a drop and three for a place kick
Great rugby game between mates
I do….and Red Rover
Red rover - come over :)
Dryfings... :-)
Ja ek wou nou net sê Draad, dis dryfings, nie hierdie gaining grounds kak nie.
Bloody boerseuns
We play a sorta kick tennis game at training sometimes.
15 a side filling the field. The ball has to be kicked higher than the posts and land in the oppos side of the pitch. If the ball touches the ground the player closest is out and after five (outs*) you lose the 22 to try line, another 5 and your'e down to the 10m and so on it goes until there's a last man standing.
Good fun for pre season shenanigans.
Dave and his soutie bum chums would never have been able to figure that one out, Xavi.
Welcome back, Xavi.
Lol off all the posts...this is the one you come back on!?
Whats going on and where you been?
No idea why Dave calls it what he does.
It was universally called dryfings.
We'd play on the full field, and the goal was to get close enough that you could score a drop goal.
Our rules were very convoluted.
We played it everywhere where there was enough space, not just on the rugby field. Xavi commented on an earlier rugby thread before this one. But dryfings tend to bring the boys together, you know.
I visit and lurk time to time and then I read or try to decipher in any case what the good Oom has to say and remember why I cant be asked. LOL.
Hope all are doing well in any case.
The kick tennis sounds cool
Gaining grounds it is boys not dryfings - what does that even mean - driving?
Dryf as in drive Dave - drive them back. I don't think the word has any meaning in Afrikaans outside of the name for the game, just derivative from dryf.
Xavi no man, talk to us more. Ignore the oom's droolings.
Dryfings was only nice when you got the torpedo kick Right,of the side of your foot……then the opposition cry:)
Touchies wasn’t bad, but it always turned into full on contact:)
Then when i came home, Mommy was waiting for me, about why my clothes looked the way they did:)
Who remember koppestamp?
I’m guessing none of you played British Bulldog ?! Ha ha ha !
Yes you have to tackle a person running from one designated area to another area. Fun :)
Oh wow……it got banned over here years ago. We still played it though !
That sounds like what we called Open The Gates.
Why on earth would they ban this? Shit I'm glad I was a child in the 80's. We could do pretty much whatever we wanted.
Chip I checked what koppestamp is on Google, don't recall us playing something like that.
Our schools version of open gates was one vs the rest. He'd call out one person (usually the fat kid) and if he stopped him they were now team mates If tubby got through it was open gates for the rest to run and the original tackler had another chance to try tackle some one.
Pakie…….I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s. The Schools banned it then !
What is koppestamp the game?
Ja that's about it Xavi.
MP this is how the guy on Reddit that I found via Google describes it: In South Africa we play a game called koppestamp (translation bump heads) in practice where you play a game completely in the tram lines (15m wide). Its pretty bruising and is basically just pick and gos.
So sounds like playing rugby in a confined space.
Pakie…….I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s. The Schools banned it then !
Well they should have banned rugby while they were at it Becs, then we wouldn't have to put up with the likes of Owen Farrell now.
Then again, we wouldn't have had Wilko either. So carry on I guess :P
I think not banning Rugby was a good idea ;)
Open gates = red rover is it not?
Matt ball in the hall during PT - was basketball but getting the ball to a lad standing on a matt
We used to smash the shit out of each other trying to get the ball to your man on the matt
It was a free for all - indoor rugby
We played Kamikaze Basketball. The boys just used to pick us up and demand the ball from us or they wouldn’t put us back down :)
Koppestamp Sounds quite vicious and tiresome.
Were you an easy pick up Becs :)
I used to play rugby at Diggers.
koppestamp was staple for us.
basically 5 on 5 in a 10 x 10 area.
no kicking.
just rucking and mauling in a very confined area. We basically had to try steal or secure the ball.
it was proper tough. Not for English kids.
we used to fuck each other up, get raked, cleared out, trodden on, head butts… never on purpose. all to secure the ball.
it made us tough.
Dutchman tough.
we used to play it on Tuesdays so that we had enough time to recover for Saturdays game.
flip we loved it.
Koppestamp is something we do with the under 14s through to seniors.
Play the whole squad in the 15m channel split into the 5m channel and the remaining 10. Pick n go and short lift and pop in the 5m and a pass or two in the 15.
Great drill for ruck defence and also for linespeed after 3rd man.
Very funny, Saffolk.
it made us tough.
Dutchman tough.
we used to play it on Tuesdays so that we had enough time to recover for Saturdays game.
flip we loved it.
Ja nothing makes a man feel alive like a proper bout of physical confrontation. Becs' lot banned this stuff in the 70s, that's why even a fairly average bloke like DDA can bully them - the leprechaun Ringrose, wee Biggar, pretty boy Slade, clumsy Earl - never did koppestamp or open the gates/bulldog, paying for it now.
Slade is to worried about his hair:) And Fagboy Farrell is trying to seduce his teammates at there afternoon tea sessions ….bunch of Pansies:)
” Ja nothing makes a man feel alive like a proper bout of physical confrontation“
Or a proper knife fight…..
I'm sure that's a gas if you're lucky enough to walk away from it, MP.
Yip you feel truly alive.
"Ja nothing makes a man feel alive like a proper bout of physical confrontation."
...there is one other thing ;)