![]() Then we did this power half hour which was the toughest thing I have gone through and I think everybody went through. ‘It would be intense and you would be knackered. ‘So, the power half hour that Os refers to, we would train fitness and then we would do our game-plan training,’ Pienaar explained. Pienaar further explained the concept of the ‘power half hour’ but added that he felt the 1995 Springboks were far more skilful than what they were given credit for. We did around 80 scrums in the morning and then 120 scrums against the scrum machine.’ Those steps there, I can’t remember how many we did. Even now when I drive past Wanderers, where we trained, I still get nerves. That was because of the hard work beforehand, before the World Cup. I thought we had the better of them in the scrum. As a tight five, the All Blacks played 45 Tests together consecutively. ![]() But Olo Brown was one of the world’s best scrummagers. ‘Training that power half hour, I hated every minute of that.
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