One-leg lift

A one-leg lift is a tackling technique that was introduced to rugby league football in the 1980s by wrestler Larry O'Dea.^[1] Roy Masters has described the move: "the tackler would slip his arm under a leg of the ball carrier and hook it up until the attacking player was struggling to stabilise himself on the tip-toes of one foot".^[1]

The move was demonstrated by O'Dea when he was invited to a St George training session.^[1] Masters explains that the move was first used in "the era of the five-metre rule, so the technique was not so much designed to slow down the play-the-ball as discourage the player [from] unloading the ball".^[1]

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