Wallabies get grips on Lions challenge Wallaby Pat McCabe working hard in a wrestling drill at Buderim, Queensland. Picture: Megan Slade Source: The Courier-Mail A FORMER Melbourne NRL forward is using his martial arts expertise to help drill the Wallabies in collision-zone techniques to help dominate the British and Irish Lions in the key breakdown battle. "Fight" is not the first word you would expect to hear at Wallabies training. But yesterday Brett O'Farrell, an expert in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, barked orders at a school gym in Buderim. For 30 intense minutes, the scene more resembled the Gold Coast's Fight Club academy, where O'Farrell has competed. And this was purely backs only. Long gone are the days when the late Jim Kenny, Queensland coach of the 1970s, derided backs at his Brisbane club Brothers as "Mintie-chewing, comic book readers" almost superfluous to the serious body-banging of the forwards. Codehopper Israel Folau was transported back to his Storm days when taking on wingmate Joe Tomane and all comers in full-on, low-to-the-ground clinches and throws. Comeback Wallaby Kurtley Beale and James O'Connor were pitted in another one-on-one where both jostled for superior leverage under arms and body position. Centre Pat McCabe showed why coach Robbie Deans rates his power so highly by turtling Tomane and Berrick Barnes and powering over their prone bodies in the mock breakdown drill. Warwick-raised O'Farrell played 20 games for the Storm between 1999-2001 and later blew the whistle on the club being coached in the outlawed grapple tackle or chokehold-style grip around the neck. O'Farrell was used at the Wallabies' Sydney camp last week and his appearance on the Sunshine Coast yesterday produced a new-style warm-up session that had every player engaged. While techniques to slow the play-the-ball are near the top of the pet hates for Newcastle NRL coach Wayne Bennett, any techniques to speed up ball delivery from the breakdown or slow the opposition's ruck possession are key subtleties in rugby union. Breakdown efficiency and power are all-important if the Wallabies are to start this series with a bang. Yesterday's squad selection of ACT Brumbies lock-flanker Peter Kimlin exemplifies it now that injured duo Scott Higginbotham and Sitaleki Timani are out of the series. Kimlin, 27, has not played Test rugby since his two tastes against Italy four years ago and calculated he was so far out of contention that, in April, he signed to play with French club Grenoble. "Obviously, it was very much a surprise when I got the phone call," Kimlin enthused, adding that he would likely have reconsidered his French move if this Wallabies chance had seemed more likely.