Let's talk technique : the side step

Here are a two prints from W.W.Wakefield's book "Rugger" published in 1930 (at least, mine..) explaining the side step ("cadrage débordement" for my French readers...)

   

Actually, this was also the opportunity to present this 3'30 video explaining the beauty of the "Welsh side stepping"... Shane Williams, Jonathan Davis, Gerald Davies, Ieuan Evans, Phil Benett to discuss the point... "It is the small man's act of retribution in a game of big men ; it is one moment of revenge..." or "Side stepping is a natural gift... you can learn how to do it... but you can never been tought when to do it..." or " There is a way, a Welsh way, a special way, to play rugby football"...

I am afraid that I don't know who to credit for this video... thanks anyway...

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Comments

[Cath]

Qu'est ce que tu speakes freaking well l'angliche toi !
Je t'ai laissée une petite rose chez vinvin...

Bisous Fred

[Frederic]

Hi Cath, the most freaking part of my English is my accent... half Australian, half American, half Indian, half Oxfordian, half Dutch... many halves indeed...

[akky]

Now you are talking, Fred, in whichever language: (try Welsh)! What a great little video of my old hero (Gerald) and my curreht one (Shane). Merveifreakinglleuse!
Sidestep in Welsh is ochr-gamu, by the way!
Cheers,
Phil Atkinson.

[Cath]

Jeez Fred!
As long as you don't speak English with a tight upper lip...

Aussie or American (well, depends where from in the US of A) brogues are still OK and quite understandable, and sometimes charming.

But "English from England" (worst being from Yorkshire, I guess!), just forget it!

AW-FUL, j'y comprends que nada quand ils causent and they do it purposefully.

My English is as fluent as my French, but I never got over my lovely French akcent :)

Take care Fred. I would have liked to see "happy voting" but there is no such a kind of salutation in English... ;)