Alternative names: Drop It
Objective: This drill teaches pack definition skills and identifying whether skaters are in or out of play.
Typical length of drill: 10 mins at a time
Materials needed: A regulation-sized track. Cones, ideally wide and flat ones, you can also use paper plates in two different colors if you have, representing the players. Tape measure. Volunteers.
Skill level required: None
Skill level required: None
Description: A group of people (up to 10) skate on the track in a more or less tight pack formation. Each one is holding one or more cones (representing the players). On a whistle everyone drops their cone(s) to the the floor. Now step off the track and look at the cones. Pick out one or two participants and let them define the pack. Pick another one and ask, Who is not in the pack, but still in play? Who is out of play? And so on. Use the tape measure to check. If a cone lands upside down you can go "What if that player is down?"
Advanced version: Add two cones in a third colour representing the jammers.
Additional notes: This drill was submitted to A.D.D. by Riff Reff of the Stuttgart Valley Rollergirlz but he does not take the credit for it, he states that he has learned this drill from multiple different people. I like it!
We use this drill but with bean bags allowing us to immediately drop and the beanbags stay in the exact place dropped.
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