10 Minutes of Players Trying to Tackle Jonah Lomu

[@BlueIce607]

That speed and power at 6'5 was frightening

[@merlin5420]

Whats even scarier is that he wasn’t even operating at 100% health during most of his career 😬😬😬

[@pierlorenzofinotto1550]

Consider that in 90's the average winger was probably at 180/200 lbs. He was 260, so looking at his size nobody expected him to be a back, but a forward (probably a lock). It has to be said that he started playing as number 8 and then he got asked about trying to play at wing and the result was what everybody knows.

[@pierlorenzofinotto1550]

And with a top speed of 34kmh it was like trying to stop a furious rhino

[@aaronbarlow4376]

@@pierlorenzofinotto1550 I'm 275 at 6 ft. does fat count? Lol

[@jeramease89]

No,no it doesn't lol,lol​@aaronbarlow4376

[@newzild1]

One of the best Lomu videos I've seen - lots of rare footage.

[@guesswho6925]

Best compilation of lomu, great footage! To think he was only at like 70% of his peak due to kidney dialysis

[@muzzaduzz613]

The best to ever do it. RIP Jonah.

[@Bruce-nw2hm]

My favourite player for ever.

[@maximuswhyte]

People say that he wouldn't be as effective in todays game because of the increased strength and conditioning of the players he would be facing and point to the fact that many modern wingers are 110kg+ but dont have nearly the same impact as he had. What they are forgetting is that no other winger of his size since has had his level of acceleration and top speed. The speed he was moving at combined with his size is what made him so difficult to tackle. Also the players between 95-02 weren't that much smaller than the players we see today, the loose jerseys make them look less built but if anything there are more short wingers and fullbacks below 5'9 in the game today

[@icefarrow7959]

It also ignores the fact that Lomu would receive the very same conditioning and training if he were playing nowadays. If that's how effective he was back then, he'd be even more lethal if he debuted today.

[@alfredmoli]

@@icefarrow7959 Exactly

[@Andy_M986]

Plus he only ran on 80% of his real potential, what could have been.

[@theric66]

i don't know many winger that are 110 kg are you sure u r not talking about the flankers

[@thefobbie0034]

@@theric66 Let alone 118kg!!!

[@rexprangnell6815]

Lomu was suffering from severe kidney desease during his totalplaying days an absolute monster of a player love ❤️ lomu

[@mathewmataira4546]

It's a bummer no one never saw him playing at 100%

[@masterr79]

That game where he destroyed Scotland with the Barbarians was men against boys

[@nixm9093]

The freight train in ballet shoes ❤

[@marctoleafoa5864]

The try when he’s surrounded by French players is just unreal

[@anauanau1229]

If he played 💯 percent be unstoppable

[@pmswanepoel]

A man amongst boys! Awesome power and speed

[@johnf991]

Speed, acceleration, strength, power in the tackle (whether or not his legs are held), and an ability to sidestep and swerve, made him peerless.

[@antology7]

Don't forget the offload

[@raymondscott6331]

Simply the BEST.

[@jonplayle6954]

Jonah Lomu the legend rest in heaven bro

[@Andy_M986]

R.I.P brother.

[@JoeTodd6]

Awesome story of the legend from Danny Care

[@godisbollocks]

Scariest ball-runner in the history of rugby, and it isn't even close.

[@steveoverton9570]

Lord of the wings the best

[@nicktorea4017]

and this is Lomu with one Kidney imagine if he had 2 in good working order

[@spudmurphy278]

Shame his illness hampered his career

[@johnmanning5568]

I didn’t know he was playing in 1905! (1 minute 42 seconds).

[@julianmallach348]

Just do what the Spingboks did. That sure worked on him.

[@frankbromfield5213]

Didn't score against the Springboks the best winger

[@ThysKleynhans]

Springboks tackled him so that he could never score against the Sprinboks

[@MrAhuapai]

whilst everyone else around him like Umanga, Cullen and wilson scored truck loads of tries through his offloads.

[@iancurtis1152]

I wouldn’t say ‘tackled’, more like jumped and climbed on top. Like Cheeters bringing down a Wildebeest.

[@martinsmallwood9605]

Springboks gives the game away. it took more than one to contain him leaving holes for the rest of the team capitalize on.

[@JonnyDredd]

Exactly​@@MrAhuapai

[@manusduminy9845]

​@@MrAhuapai Christian Cullen didn't really need great offloads to score. I'd like you to show me the "loads of tries" they scored off offloads from him against the Boks. You saying so doesn't make it true. The Springboks had his number, but that does not detract from the fact that he was extraordinary, a game changer and wonderful to watch.

[@shirleymontgomery1710]

And how good was Kronfield.

[@BriantheLionNZ]

Was my fav player for a while. He really backed up Jonah well as you can see in some of these videos. I still laugh at that try josh took the ball off Jonah who did the impossible like only he could, and Josh robbed him when he was pretty much already over the line right at the end. RIP champ.

[@gertvanniekerk46]

I was and still is a Big Fan and Admirer of Lomo, may he RIP, but what is never mentioned by the media is that after 10 years banned from playing international rugby the Springboks in the 1995 world Cup tackled the crap out of Lomu. The Springbok management and coaching staff knew that, even as the ABs were the greatest rugby team on earth, they build and relied much too much on Lomu!!!