Minimum Skill Requirement: to consistently give inside arm whips, holding right arm across skaters body as 'handle' for the receiving skater

Derby Requirement: ability to pull skaters through tight gaps on track; such as when a Jammer is breaking through a pack

Basic Skill:

Drill 1

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Coaching Points:

• skaters

Progression:

Minimum Skill Requirement: to consistently give outside arm whips

Derby Requirement: ability to boost the speed of others on track, particularly to pass onto Jammers as they exit the pack where they may have been slowed by the opposition

Basic Skill:

Drill 1

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Coaching Points:

• skaters

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Minimum Skill Requirement: consistently gives & receives whips on skaters' hips without pulling/getting pulled off balance

Derby Requirement: ability to take speed/have speed taken from other skaters on the team in order to manouevre around them & take speed

Basic Skill:

• Show correct 'contact' position on the skaters hips & failings of if too high (pulling the skater over backwards) or too low (won't be able to take speed/could trip skater)

• Highlight the importance of a good derby stance to be giving a hip whip (stability to have other skater pull around)

• Demonstrate the position to skate into the whip - from directly behind the skater (vs either side where it will hamper ability to hold/take speed)

• Build into the motion/pace of the whip - where taking skater establishes contact with giving skater for a moment before 'pulling' around them & releasing

• Finally once released skater should 'stride out' of the motion once released to maximise the speed gained from the whip

Skaters to practice in pairs, both inside & outside hip whips, alternating skater roles

Hip Whip Paceline

Set Up: skaters in a single paceline, little more than an arm's distance spacing between skaters - skating at a moderate pace around the track

Action: skater from the back must get from the back to the front of the paceline only by hip whipping off skaters in the paceline, alternating inside/outside, they cannot propel themselves.

Coaching Points:

• The paceline skaters must recover from the whip & maintain spacing within the paceline

• The skater moving through the paceline should have clear communication with the skaters within the paceline

• Must have ability to moderate speed whilst maintaining motion - when completing the whip it shouldn't be a 'pass through' motion but maintain good whip form (hold, pull & release to take the speed)

2/1/2 Whips

Set Up: skaters on track numbered as '1' or '2'

Action: when coach whistles/calls '1s' then all skaters numbered '1' hold up their hand and continue to sticky skate on track, skaters numbered '2' then hip whip off the nearest '1' skater - either continue with 1/2 pattern until the coach switches numbers to '2'

Coaching Points:

• skaters need to have good communication with those who have raised hands, highlight the difference in body mechanics when working across different pairs & importance in practicing across different partners

Progression: skaters complete a single whip on each call and wait for next coach call (allows opportunity to mix up whips & increase skater urgency to complete the whip)

Drill 1

Set Up:

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Coaching Points:

• skaters

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