Raw Meat Week #1

Hello and welcome to Raw Meat recap,

Today we will be discussing week one of Raw Meat Training.
Week one was off with a bang, about 100 eager little freshies in their black and white "penguin" suits.




To start the evening after a quick warm up trainers
Pixie Pincher & Violent Krumble had a quick talk about etiquette, safety, and hydration.

ADRD promotes a safe, friendly and inclusive environment, we want you to skate confidently in a comfortable environment, please remember we don't tolerate any mouthing off, or unsafe behaviour.
Just a reminder from a safety point of view to please remove any jewellery (such as large dangly earrings, facial piercings, necklaces, watches and rings) at all your training sessions. Also that if you are wearing safety equipment to wear it correctly, do up your helmet and leave it done up all night. Remember if you have any issues to please consult with the grievance officers (listed in the the last post).
In regards to hydration, altho we do get drink breaks during training sessions remember to drink plenty of water in the 2-3 days BEFORE training to give your body plenty of time to absorb it, as the trainers mentioned if your feeling thirsty your already dehydrated!!!

Next up was weaving with Guy Incognito, Kit Cat Krunch
and Bam Bam Belial. Cones were set out for practice with either a feet together stance or one foot leading. Remember with weaving to look, turn and lean (with your shoulders) in the direction you want to go. If your leading with one foot forward, use that legs knee and foot to steer.

After weaving was stepping with a little help from Bride of Skatan.
This consisted of standing on the spot, marching to practice agility and then taking steps to form a cross. Eg: step to the left, then back to the centre, step forward then back to the centre, step to the right then back to the centre and step back and back to the centre. This is something that you can be practising at home, carpeted surfaces work well as you wont get so much roll.

After that Violent Krumble & Gateway Girl demonstrated stopping with
T stops and snow ploughs. T stops consisted of making a T shape with your feet, one foot leading and the other dragging behind making a 90 degree "T". Remember to keep your skate flat or tilted back on the wheels on the right side of your foot. and not to drag it along on your toe stop.
Snow ploughs consisted of pushing both legs out, then bringing them into a V shape with your toes pointing slightly together and heels pushing out. Remember with this one to bend at your knees and not to tilt forward from the waist.

Here's a useful video that demonstrates both techniques.
(ignore the last technique for now)



General Skating covered things like stride, riding the track & posture (derby stance). Riding the track involved skating around the track as if it were a rectangle, Imagine 4 points at the corners, skating straight down the straight aways to the corner point then crossing over as you skate around the curves.

Derby stance involves a squatting posture, feet at shoulder width apart for a steady stance, hips over your ankles with a slightly tilted forward torso, arms tucked in to your sides at 90 degree (not dangling by your sides) and head and chin up looking in the direction you want to skate. The most important thing to remember with derby stance is STABILITY! Once you start getting knocked around you will know what we are talking about.

Kit Cat Krunch & Marshall Stacks then demonstrated scissor "sticky skate", scissor sticky skates "figure 8 cross overs and then cross overs lifting your feet. (as demonstrated in the video below).
scissor stick skates consisted of skating without lifting your feet, pushing both feet in and then out continuously whilst moving forward, and having the feet come together as your skates move back in. The figure 8's however consisted of one foot crossing over in front of the other as they met (but not lifting) changing the leading foot each time they meet.
Cross overs lifting feet consisted of a gentle push back and out then lifting that foot forward and around the other leg in a stepping motion, then lifting the rear foot and stepping forward to take the lead position.

If your finding cross overs difficult break it down into comfortable sections, try the sticky skate crossovers, practice walking or running in a circle without your skates on or try the stepping motion while holding onto the back of a chair, or just walking in a "grapevine" line side to side.



After the demonstration, everyone got a change to practice on the 2 tracks, and then finished up with some endurance laps, the goals for endurance is 5 laps in 1 min and 25 laps in 5 mins.

Congratulations to everyone who participated we were very excited to see you all skating so confidently this week.

See you all next week