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This training is all about doing offence for your jammer, with a focus on 1-person offence. We will mix in some "tactical skills" with the "technical skills". Part 1 dives into technical skills: how can you push other skaters aside with your body? We do the slice, the drive (or crab), the hit, and the superman. During this we focus on the tactical skill of "after-care": prevenging the opposing blockers from chasing after your jammer after you've hit them. Part 2 dives into three different specific combo-moves for 1-person offence, where you hit multiple opposing blockers one after the other. The tactical skill of focus is timing/communication: how and when do you tell your jammer what you're going to do? Part 3 is a little intermezzo where blockers in a tripod learn how to avoid offence. The blocker playing offence can practice what they've learned in pt.1 and pt.2 (can be left out if there's little time). Part 4 puts everything we've done in a game situation, where the tactical skill to focus on is prioritising between Offence, Defence, Pack, and Star Passes. You should have a little talk with the skaters about these tactical priorities before this part. Part 5 (if there is enough time) focuses on adding more blockers playing offence.
I skate, train, and ref at Rotterdam Roller Derby as Cherry Bombe #47 since 2022. Before that I skated at The Parliament of Pain The Hague Roller Derby. Have been skating since 2014. I love using LessonStack to write out drills and trainings and share
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Skaters will skate around a track, doing:
slalom
squats
side-to-side lunges
bum kicks
toe-touch kicks
drunken sailors/crossovers
rotating arms
jog on toe-stops
jog on skates
Dynamic stretch:
Credits: this warm-up and dynamic stretch routine are based on a more detailled plan from our trainer Sterroids
Ask skaters if they are warm
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Blockers will focus on the technical skills of several moves that allow them to play offence for their jammer on their own. The four moves are: <br>
You can practice all of these in different ways
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For offence players:
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For offence players:
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For offence players:
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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:
You can start the drill off by practicing "dry", without an offence coming in.
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
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Set up a track with two teams. Both teams play regular derby, the offence players carefully divide their attention between: <br>
Easy mode: One team plays full defence, the other has one offence person.
Hard mode: Both teams have one person on offence (this makes pack things more complicated). <br>
Before starting this drill, have a little talk with your team. Where should the offence player's priorities lie in your team? What does the jammer expect from their offence person? Is it one static person, or do you switch who plays offence during a jam? How do you communicate around all of this?