Tripod Drills

Demo with a wall and a jammer

• What is the role of the butts?

  • Strong ploughs to stop

  • Lean on each other

  • Track the jammer with butts

  • Communication
    

• What is the role of the brace?

  • Communication

  • Tracking the jammer - stay in front

  • Let the butts grab you rather than the other way around - supporting role

  • Allow space

  • Catch the jammer

Suitable for: L1+

Action:

In mixed groups of two skate around the track next to each other at slow to moderate speed to begin with.

On a whistle come together and half plow in a two wall - roll and stop together.

Newer skaters may benefit from some practice just leaning on each other if they haven't done this before - suggest they stay stationery. lean on the whistle to begin with

Level up - split out levels and pick up speed and/or groups of three with a jammer

Level up again - jammer can move across the track

Coaching points:

Drop weight down to stop. Practice communication - saying drop on the whistle to drop at the same time.

Progression:

Switch partners and feel the difference doing the drill with different skill levels.

Objective: Skaters will learn to skate as a pack together.

Suitable for: L1+

Activity:

• In groups of three skaters, skate a round the track in cube formation (if odd numbers then have a cube formation).

• The coach can shout the following commands in no particular order

  • inside

  • outside

  • speed up

  • stop

  • suck

  • skate backwards

  • skate forwards

  • turn ( how the pack turns depends on whether the pack is inside or outside, this is to be shown beforehand)

• The pack have to do the things the coach shouts, but also repeating what the coach shouts.

Coaching points:

The main goal is that the pack moves together as fast as they can and always keeps the wall formation. Repeating what the coach says is about communication.

Check For Learning:

This is a nice activity for warming up and feeling part of the pack. Those skaters who are more familiar with each other will naturally be much tighter and skate more smoothly together