Fresh Meat Week # 2

Welcome back, if your reading this you've probably just made it though one of the most physical training sessions of fresh meat... Blocking!!!

Fresh Meat week # 2 recap:

Head trainers for week #2 blocking were Kit Cat Krunch & Marshall Stacks, with helpers Vaderella, Pixie Pincher, Gateway Girl, Violent Krumble, Miss Whirl and Dee Injuria.

Warm up consisted of re visiting sticky feet, coasting on one foot, squats and our old "Uncle Candy's" favourite... Roof, window, face and floor punching. Then a quick pyramid drill.

After that Kit Cat Krunch gave an off skates blocking chat & demo with the help of Miss Whirl and Dee Injuria in the "Haz Chem" colour coded suits... red for target zones and blue for blocking zones.


For a more accurate detailed visual of these zones & the rules you can view them in section 5 of the WFTDA Standardised Flat Track Roller Derby Rules. Which you can read online or download from the official WFTDA website http://wftda.com/rules

Blocking consisted of hip checks, should checks and booty blocks.

Remember:

Stable, solid derby stance, don't lift your outside foot when you give the hit.

Don't hold your breath or tense up when you get hit,or give a hit. DO exhale, let it out so you don't get winded. ( Dee Injuria gives a great demo of this, go ask her to show you sometime!!!)


Shoulder & Hip Block discussed here:



Booty Blocking here:


After blocking off skates Gateway Girl & Violent Krumble took pack skating on the 2 tracks, getting skaters to observe the rest of the pack, practice looking behind to call out signaled numbers, avoiding obstacles such as fallen skaters, leaning, knocking wheels and responding to change in pace.

Next up Kit Cat Krunch & Marshall Stacks took some blocking on skates drills.
Snake lines, 2 per track with one person weaving through the rest of the line, and then skating with a partner the length of the room doing booty blocks with another freshy followed by hip and shoulder check with a mouldy.

Frefs- (that's Fresh Meat Referees for you newbies) this week covered blocking sections of the rules and got to observe skaters during the pack & paired blocking drills, looking for contact, falls or out of bounds skating that may incur penalties. They also checked out distances for defining the pack and engagement zones, by part taking in their own skating drill dropping coloured cones (representing skaters) on the track and using rope to measure the distances between the cones.

For more information on pack definition & engagement zones see section 4 of the WFTDA Standardised Flat Track Roller Derby Rules. Which you can read online or download from the official WFTDA website http://wftda.com/rules

Thanks for reading, as a little bonus this week I'm sharing my personal favourite block of all time... The "Slay Ride".... Gotham Girls "Beyonslay" giving Rice Rocket the ride of her life!!!



Oh yeah and look who got to meet her a few weeks ago!!!
(Our very own ADRD referees Rowan De Boate & Wolfe Whistle).