15 Minutes
Aim: Countering backwards blocking
Drill: Get into groups of 2: one jammer, one blocker.
Blocker faces backwards, jammer approaches and allows blocker to make contact with them. Jammer leans heavy pressure into the shoulder of the blocker which is opposite to the direction that the jammer wants to go. Then disengage dropping the opposite shoulder passed the blocker - dropping that shoulder presents your back to the blocker as you go past. As jammer drops their shoulder, they then juke and accelerate off.
Backwards blocking is slower than forwards facing blocking, meaning using acceleration and explosive speed will be really useful to get around them.
Aim: Countering backwards blocking
Drill: Get into groups of 2: one jammer, one blocker.
Blocker faces backwards, jammer approaches and allows blocker to make contact with them. Jammer leans heavy pressure into the shoulder of the blocker which is opposite to the direction that the jammer wants to go. Then disengage dropping the opposite shoulder passed the blocker - dropping that shoulder presents your back to the blocker as you go past. As jammer drops their shoulder, they then juke and accelerate off.
Backwards blocking is slower than forwards facing blocking, meaning using acceleration and explosive speed will be really useful to get around them.