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Cherry Bombe : 2h Roller Derby Training March 2024

Basic on-skates warm-up + stretch

15mins

Technical skills of 1-person offence

20mins

Grapevine one person offence

10mins

Ping-pong one person offence

10mins

S-curve one person offence

15mins

Turn! Split! Front! Back! Resist! - negating one person offence

15mins

One person offence: prioritising

20mins

Two-person offence: two-person drive

15mins

Group-offence: The Drill

15mins

135mins


Delivery Notes

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.

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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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Basic on-skates warm-up + stretch

15
mins

Objective
Skaters will be ready to start training
Activity

Skaters will skate around a track, doing:

  • 1min. of gentle skating
  • muscle activation while skating. Instruct them to do 30sec. each of:
slalom
squats
side-to-side lunges
bum kicks
toe-touch kicks
drunken sailors/crossovers
rotating arms
jog on toe-stops
jog on skates
  • 3min. of medium paced skating, either with instructions to jump/transition/do consecutive knee-taps on the whistle, or with instructions to speed up/break/skate on the whistle

Dynamic stretch:

  • Neck-mobility
  • Dynamic arm-stretch, straight angles, move backwards
  • Roll-out legs + touch floor
  • Circle hips (sitting)
  • Toe-touch and twist
  • Wrists (praying hands, rotations)

Credits: this warm-up and dynamic stretch routine are based on a more detailled plan from our trainer Sterroids

Check For Learning

Ask skaters if they are warm

Technical skills of 1-person offence

20
mins

Objective
Learn how to slice, drive, hit and superman skaters to help your jammer when you're playing offence.
Activity

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>

  1. Slice: cut in front of an opposing blocker and push them aside/block them positionally
  2. Drive (or crab): put your side to their side, shoulder in front and hip behind them, and drive them to a side while taking small steps
  3. Hit: hit someone aside with a forceful hit
  4. Superman: hit them while turning 180 degrees around them, ending up with your shoulder behind them and your hip in front of them. This is a combined hit + positional block.

You can practice all of these in different ways

  • First without a jammer pushing on the blocker
  • Then with a jammer pushing on the blocker
  • With a focus on "after-care": after the hit, your offence blocker should focus on holding back the blocker they've just hit
  • With opposing blockers turned with the back towards the offence, or with the front towards the offence
Check For Learning

Grapevine one person offence

10
mins

Objective
You will learn to do an offence move where you take our the person in front of your jammer again and again, in alternating directions.
Activity
Check For Learning

For offence players:

  • You know the tactic and can use it
  • You will get your jammer a quick lead
  • You perform excellent aftercare (making sure the blockers you've just offenced don't sprint after your jammer), and you balance this well with moving on to the next person
  • For jammers:
  • You can take advantage of the offence played for you
  • You communicate about this with your offence player

Ping-pong one person offence

10
mins

Objective
You will learn to do the one person offence move hitting out a butt and locking the brace
Activity
Check For Learning

For offence players:

  • You know the tactic and can use it
  • You can switch between this move and the S-curve halfway through the move
  • You will get your jammer a quick lead
  • You perform excellent aftercare (making sure the blockers you've just offenced don't sprint after your jammer)
  • For jammers:
  • You can take advantage of the offence played for you
  • You communicate about this with your offence player

S-curve one person offence

15
mins

Objective
You will learn to do a one person offence move hitting out a butt and locking the brace
Activity
Check For Learning

For offence players:

  • You know the tactic and can use it
  • You can switch between this move and the ping-pong halfway through the move
  • You will get your jammer a quick lead
  • You perform excellent aftercare (making sure the blockers you've just offenced don't sprint after your jammer)
  • For jammers:
  • You can take advantage of the offence played for you
  • You communicate about this with your offence player

Turn! Split! Front! Back! Resist! - negating one person offence

15
mins

Objective
Blockers will learn how to handle one opposing blockers offencing their tripod.
Activity

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

Check For Learning
  • 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.

One person offence: prioritising

20
mins

Objective
You will learn to prioritise between offence, defence, keeping the pack (and optionally star passes) as an offensive blocker.
Activity

Set up a track with two teams. Both teams play regular derby, the offence players carefully divide their attention between: <br>

  • Playing offence
  • Playing defence
  • Keeping the pack (or making the pack, by tactically pushing opposing blockers)
  • (Taking a star-pass, or alerting their pivot to this possibility)

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?

Check For Learning

Two-person offence: two-person drive

15
mins

Objective
Learn to do a drive with two people with coordinated timing.
Activity
Check For Learning

Group-offence: The Drill

15
mins

Objective
Do group-offence from the front in the time between losing the opposing jammer and them re-entering the engagement zone.
Activity
Check For Learning