
ABOUT
caterpillar rugby
Rugby in which you play as a caterpillar.
When crawling and rolling freely as a caterpillar, you forget about your age, gender, presence or absence of disability.
Ah… I don’t want to go back to being a human…
ABOUT

RULE
caterpillar rugby ルール
RULE
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01RULE
Players wear the special Caterpillar Wear.
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02RULE
Teams are divided as 5 vs 5. The game is separated in halves. 5 minutes each for the first and second half.
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03RULE
The fundamental movements are: crawling forward or rolling.
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04RULE
There are 2 ways to score points:
Caterpillar Try: 2 points are scored when you touch down the ball in the “Try Zone”, which is a L-shaped try area.
Caterpillar Throw: 3 points are scored when you roll the ball from behind the “throw line”, and the ball rolls under the rope between the cones. -
05RULE
Passes should be rolled for the most part. Rolling the ball forward is also okay. However, passes thrown in the air must only be thrown backwards.
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06RULE
The defense tries to tag the shoulder to arm of the player holding the ball. If the player holding the ball gets touched, they have to pass the ball. Once the number of touches reach to 5, then the offense and defense switches.
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07RULE
If there is a rough play, the player will flip on their back and performs “Caterpillar Freeze” throughout 1 play.

STAFF
Sports Creators: Tomohiro Sawada, yaddy
Logo Designer: Fumi Miyazaki
Design Coordinator: Junpei Ohara
Ambassador: Daisuke Uehara (Paralympic silver medalist)