Often one person on the opposing team will play offence right from the jam start. There are several options to handle this, and in this drill we use 5 of them. Which one is used is clearly communicated by the brace yelling out the words:

1. Turn! - the tripod turns around the offence in clockwise or counter-clockwise directoin, one butt becoming the brace and the brace becoming a butt
2. Split! - the tripod let's go of their arms and momentarily moves apart a little bit, to let the offence pass, and reforms straight after
3. Front! - the tripod moves a bit to the front
4. Back! - the tripod moves a bit to the back
5. Resist! - the blocker that is being offenced gives counterforce, so they are not pushed aside and can hopefully push the offending blocker into the opposing jammer's path

You can start the drill off by practicing "dry", without an offence coming in.

• At first, the trainer yells out one of the five commands, and the tripod then executes it.
• Then, the bracing person yells one of the five commands, and the tripod then executes it.
• Then you can either practice it with an offence, but no jammer, or with a jammer, but no offence (in that case the trainer has to yell out the commands), or you can do both.
• Finally, you add it all together (offence and jammer) and see how the tripods do.

You can make sure the blockers don't pick up too much speed while doing this by defining one point as the point from which they will need to bridge. This will force them to keep it slow.

Credits: we learned this drill during a bootcamp from Freight Train in The Hague in the spring of 2023

• The blockers will keep blocking the jammer, focusing on the jammer, while negating the offence.
• The blockers will not move forward too much, making sure they keep braking while doing this drill.