http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAYuwgAsJhM
Lomu was pretty quick for 120kg. I’m not sure how he would compare to NFL players of similar size though.
Check out the slow mo of the second tackle on this clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QayH1On9ndQ&feature=related
The guy looks like he’s getting hit by a car
These guys would make even better middle distance runners. Here we have rugby players running 3k cross country for fun arround 9:30 or even faster without any special preparation.
So how fast exactly is Tuqiri, I remember him specifically being named in Charlie’s Aussie seminar.
10,27 YOU’D FIND ON iaaF list…and there is not…IN Athletics australia, all time rank till 10 46, and he is not…he is super fast…but run 10"69 official …
http://www.iaaf.org/athletes/biographies/letter=S/country=AUS/athcode=199216/index.html
Tuqiri is known as being quick but he’s average in the super 14. He’s more of a battering ram now he’s in centre… a tank.
I love the way Tuqiri plays…even if form another era…Campese still the best winger ever:)when I can watch old Highlights…keeps me glued to the tv…
http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,21874818-23217,00.html
Innovative approach, afraid it wouldn’t work in the NCAA or NFL though.
Why does rugby union always come before rugby league. I Mean look at Martin Offiah he was lightning fast and was better than most rugby union wingers I have seen. I mean its not good when league is always second best to rugby union. Maybe rugby players are not as quick as NFL players but there fitness is far better and the collisons in both sports are roughly the same and rugby players have nowhere near as much padding as NFL players.
I’ve worked with NFL teams since 1981 and it is certain that, if entered, the league could beat all but two or three nations straight up at the Olympics in track’s power events. A few examples of people I’ve worked with directly or through the team: 10.09, 10.11 100m, CORRECTION 8.21 LJ, 20.30 200m, 21m shot put,… the list goes on- and there are others who are as good or better, like the 200m winner from the 2000 US Olympic trials who was in and out due to “adjustment problems”.
It is truly stunning to go through the camps (and the facilities!!!) and see the incredible talent that is there- it makes an old track coach like me drool.
What is the conditioning test?
8.70 LJ!!!:eek: Who was that!!!
Apparently he failed some conditioning test after the off-season and was sent home.
Sorry, typo- meant 8.20. Vance Johnson, I looked him up on the list and he’s 8.21 legal best. (8.70 would be going!!)
The best jumper in the NFL was Eric Metcalf.8,44 or 8,45…outstanding kick returner for the browns…
I was just going from people I dealt with at the teams. there were tons of great athletes. One of the Dallas Cowboys was talking with me about training and said: “Now I see why I never ran well.” I asked him what he actually did run and he said: "10.30 and 20.30. I thought that was pretty damn good for a guy doing it wrong!!
I’d kill to be as wrong as he was…
By the way, is anybody familiar with the philosophy of Dean Benton of the Brisbane Broncos, mentioned in the Tuqiri article? I have seen a few sources that hold him in high regard.