Week # 4 saw Gateway Girl as head trainer with helpers Violent Krumble, Kit Cat Krunch, Marshall Stacks, Bride of Skatan, Bam Bam Belial, Pixie Pincher, and Nyx Bellatrix.
This weeks warm up consisted of a recap of previous weeks, concentrating on cross overs, hops & jumps using some pool toy noodles to practice jumping over. After a stretch Kit Cat and Stacks took blocking, concentrating on shoulder hits, hip checks, booty blocks and repeated heavy hits.
Pack skating lead by Krumbs and Gatey focused on pace line weaving, looking & calling numbers while in a pack, moving around in a pack, light blocking, tapping wheels, and un-expected obstacles.
A few pointers when in pace line situation, remember to hold your spacing, be ready & aware, communicate with people around you to adjust distances & speeds.
When in a pack situation remember to hold your stance, use "sticky feet" and again be aware of what is going on around you and communicate clearly.
Falls with Skatan and Bam Bam were a recap of single and double knee slides, baseball slides, and single knee slide with a turn. Finally whips and pushing with Pixie and Nyx covered hip whips, arm whips and pushing from behind.
Frefs this week got to take a practice rules test, observe some pack skating and will next week give an oral presentation on a selected section of the rules.
If you'd like to take a look at a practice rules test you can try this online version.
http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=wftda-40-roller-derby-rules-test
A lot of you have been asking what will be involved for testing next week, trainers are tweaking the details as you are reading this, all shall be revealed on here ASAP!
In the meantime please do not subscribe to any rumours you may be hearing.
Due to the large numbers and such fantastic skating skills you all have, you may all meet the criteria for successful testing, but unfortunately that alone will not guarantee you a position into the league.
All league members undertake behind the scenes duties to make ADRD as wonderful as you see us on bout day. In essence selection is also about how well suited you are to be a "team player" , not just on your team but also amongst the league. So if you don't get selected please don't think you "failed" testing.
Stay tuned for testing details, more to come...
GOOD LUCK!!!!
Good luck for Monday, freshies.
ReplyDeleteYou're all completely amazing rollergirls.
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Can you say how many spots available this year?
ReplyDeleteGood Luck to all my fellow freshies, it has been a great experience and have loved the encouragement and support given to us from the trainers and the helpers. ADRD has been made with love and will continue to grow with love. XX Helen
ReplyDeleteHey guys,
ReplyDeleteRevealing the number of spots available has been something we have all been discussing behind the scenes.
At this stage we thought that revealing numbers might discourage people from sticking with us right until the test.
We want everyone to try their best right up until test day and not compare themselves to others and go away with the attitude 'others are better, i wont make the top so i will give up now.
So, what I can say is spots are limited but there is definitely more than 4 spots available, which I heard was the number floating round at training!
Thanks for the heads up and clarification regarding testing, etc., and look forward to seeing you all Monday! Have a great weekend guys, and hope you all find some nice skating time!
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