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Objective: Practice powerjam strategy

Suitable for: L2+

Setup: Mid jam powerjam - four blockers offence against a 3 wall. Two walls on track, everyone else takes it in turns to approach as a jammer. The offence wall lines up in two groups of two - inside and outside.

Action:

• Jammer starts from other side of the track, signals which way they want to go and fakes towards the opposite side to move the wall

• If the jammer signals to the inside and fakes the wall to the outside, the two inside blockers do offence and clear the inside lane for the jammer.

Coaching points:

• Blockers need to go at the same time

• Front person to front, back person to back

• Go, hold and quit - or hold and goat - but there is no point in chasing the goat

Progression: Add in an extra blocker so it's two and two against a four wall. The drill is the same as above but there’s an extra person to float and stop the jammer. Importance of really holding/pushing a wall to allow the last person to get past the last blocker.

Objective: Practice tactic to help jammer get out in a powerjam situation.

Suitable for: L2+

Action:

• Two walls and one jammer on track. Jammer pushes gently on front wall with one blocker floating. Rear wall catches a floating blocker and holds while jammer pushes the wall forward. Goats to facilitate the drill.

Progression:

• A blocker for the rear wall push an opposing blocker off the track and the wall bridges them back.

• As soon as the blocker comes back in bounds behind the blocker, people holding the bridge move BACK to form pack with them. This makes the front blockers out of play.

• Jammer to jam harder to move the wall - offence to decide who to catch or hit off track

This is a progression of getting a goat.

Drill: Set up a powerjam situation with two walls and a jammer. The wall defending the jammer has one blocker in the ‘box’. The other wall runs offence, but with a view to keeping an eye on the blocker in the box. The drill runs and the jammer comes around while the blocker in the box times 10/20/30 seconds then returns to track. The wall needs to spot this and communicate to the rest of the wall to bridge back and hold the blocker making the blockers in front out of play.