{"id":398779,"date":"2017-07-07T23:03:50","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T23:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/07\/07\/herbert-mensah-inspires-gutter-to-gutter-rugby\/"},"modified":"2017-07-07T23:03:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T23:03:50","slug":"herbert-mensah-inspires-gutter-to-gutter-rugby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/07\/07\/herbert-mensah-inspires-gutter-to-gutter-rugby\/","title":{"rendered":"Herbert Mensah inspires \u2018gutter-to-gutter\u2019 rugby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Friday,  7 July 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Graphic.com.gh <\/p>\n<p>2017-07-07<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/11362804.295.jpg\" alt=\"Gutter To Gutter Rugby\" title=\"Gutter To Gutter Rugby\" width=\"295\" height=\"221\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Some players practicing ball handling in rugby<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=149916385178506\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=149916385178506\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1499468630_838_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> The President of Ghana Rugby, Herbert Mensah, has started a new craze amongst the Ghana Rugby players that he calls \u201cGutter-to-Gutter\u201d Rugby.<\/p>\n<p>Exercise and physical training have always been part and parcel of his daily routine and Herbert Mensah often combines this to take his dogs for a brisk morning walk in the neighbourhood of Osu, Accra.<\/p>\n<p>This habit inspired some of the Ghana Rugby players to join him and to combine the early morning walk with honing Rugby skills in terms of ball handling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the recent Rugby Africa Regional Challenge tournament that Ghana Rugby won against Benin and Togo, we identified that our players sometimes fall short on even the most basic skills such as ball handling. By combining early morning exercise with improving that basic skill we hope to instil an attitude that any and every opportunity must be used to improve basic skills,\u201d Mensah said.<\/p>\n<p>Like no other sport, rugby tests all elements of true fitness: speed, strength, power, agility, balance, endurance and coordination. This fitness, however, has to be combined with handling a Rugby ball and being able to run with it, catch it, pass it and kick it.<\/p>\n<p>Mensah also said that too many people believe that spending gruelling hours at the gym is the only way to fitness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany health and fitness experts and research have proven that walking as exercise is indeed the \u2018super food\u2019 of fitness and should not be ignored for both the physical and psychological benefits it provides. Why not combine that with ball skills training?\u201d Mensah said.<\/p>\n<p>The early morning \u201cGutter-to-Gutter Rugby Training\u201d is expected to catch on amongst many of the Rugby players in the country and one of the players think that Accra and Cape Coast residents may soon be inspired to join in the fun and excitement of the programme.<\/p>\n<p>Rugby Union, commonly known as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its most common form, a game is between two teams of 15 players using an oval-shaped ball on a rectangular field with H-shaped goalposts on each try line.<\/p>\n<p>Rugby is also the second biggest sport in the world. The 2016 World Rugby Year in Review reported 8.5 million players, of which 3.2 million were registered union players and 1.9 million were registered club players. 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