Team Awesome TRAINING CAMP
Hosted by the San Diego Derby DollsMASTER SCHEDULE
Hotel Info: Holiday Inn Express Downtown
1 mile from Training Camp Facility
1430 7th Ave, San Diego, CA 92101
(619) 696-0911 Ask for “Team Awesome Training Camp” for $69/night Holiday Inn Express
OR, if you're on a budget, check out HOSTEL CAT. More info...
Camp Awesome is an intensive roller derby training weekend for intermediate
and advanced bouting roller derby skaters. Each session is designed to increase
playing level, skills, conditioning and strategic understanding for skaters with interleague
bouting experience. Camp will be coached by Team Awesome skaters featuring years of playing
and coaching experience. Training will include both banked and flat track classes, and will offer
outstanding opportunities for player-coaches to learn new drills and coaching strategies
to bring home to their teams.
Group classes and individual coaching will be available.
Limited to the first 150 registrants.
When: December 18-20, 2009 Where: San Diego Derby Dollhouse, downtown San Diego Cost: $150 includes special campers-audience-only bout on Saturday night!
Schedule:
Registration starts at 10am Friday, Dec 18th
Classes begin at noon, Friday
Sunday classes end with 5pm scrimmage
Coaches
Thanks to the photographers, esp. Boss Hogg, Joe Rollerfan and Blood & Thunder for the photos.
Mission
Team Awesome practices peer coaching - meaning, we all skate and we are coaches for our teams. We learn from each other and attend each others clinics, as well. We invite
observations and suggestions. And we'll learn anything we can from you, and teach anything we know to you. We're playing a young sport.
We share with each other to develop our skills and our sport as fast as we can so we get to play well as long as our bodies hold out!
Check out the MASTER SCHEDULE
Complete Class Descriptions:
Coach
Class
Detail
Dish & Ivanna
Pack Dynamics
Pack Communication, especially dynamic speeding and slowing; how, when, why. Jammer reads, friendly sides & blocker roles. This will be a very scrimmage heavy class.
Goodie 2 Skates
Anyone Can Jam
The Warriors Heart: Reading the pack, juking, faking, talking & listening, trusting and relying on your bench coach
Goodie 2 Skates
Footwork Skills for Pack Work
Lateral movement, running & duck walking, stops & starts, turning & mohawk turns, backwards skating, jumping for beginners, falling & getting up with hustle, navigating through the pack, juking for blockers and jammers, rotating wall in twos and speeding and slowing AS A PACK
Goodie 2 Skates
PEP Talk
During scrimmage / bout reminders, etiquette on the bench, team work, and the BIG PICTURE: we are lucky!
Ivanna S. Pankin
Flat To Banked: What's the Diff?
Improve your game on both tracks by active analysis. Blocking and jamming drills on banked & flat track so that the differences and similarities are obvious. How & when to adjust your timing and hitting style to dominate both tracks. How to use the shape of each track and how it affects your momentum to your advantage in jamming.
Ivanna S. Pankin
Tricky Jammer Shit
Maximizing your points with fancy fakes, bully moves, unpredictible actions, dirty tricks, outright lies & jumping the apex
Jackie Daniels
Up Your Teammates' Asses
Drills to work together with your pack on winning strategies for game play. Teamwork baby.
Jackie Daniels
Using Your ASSets
Drills and review to use your bod, momentum, and skills to your advantage. Learn ways to hit, avoid hits and skating styles to make the best success in game play. Assessment of effective blocks for desired results. Drills to dodge hits, absorb hits when you have to while maintaining momentum and/or and propelling yourself forward.
Jackie Daniels
Captaining & Bench Coaching
Playtime, placements and line-ups. Having to be the logical ass: Discussion on how to place players and select playtime. Provides insight into facts that may already exist or can exist to back up or assist in making tough decisions when it comes to placement or play time for skaters.
Medusa
Ninja Blocking
Advanced Single-Skater blocking: sneaking them out of bounds, hip checks & asswipes, fast stops, frontal blocking & the cold shoulder
Medusa
Ninja Manuevers
Advanced Single Skater skills: footwork, quick stops, jumping, using toestops effectively, weaving, hockey stops, snowplows & 360s
Miss Fortune
A Hole Is There If You Want It
Getting out of impossible-looking situations by forcing the opposing blocker to do something stupid; jukes, tricks, traps and more
Miss Fortune
The First Ten Seconds
How to Earn Lead Jammer Status with faster starts, using your own blockers & feeding the other jammer back to the pack. Also includes tips for offensive blockers including lining up and screens.
Miss Fortune
The Big Secret to Jamming: Go Fast
Get comfortable sprinting through the pack, path prediction, using the track, and mandatory jammer skills
She Who Cannot Be Named
Defense, Offense & Awareness
Intermediate Basics for all positions
Trish the Dish
Banked Track Offense & Communication
The jam starts before the whistle blows; how & when to line up depending on the situation. Player roles and communication. Setting up the play in the first 5 seconds. Clears and Screens on the banked track for single blockers. Setting up friendly inside / outside and other textbook pack plays.
Trish the Dish
Its Just Not That Scary
Banked track basics; The rail is your 5th blocker, not your enemy. Learn to use bt momentum to murder opponents with inside hits. Please the crowd and win the game with the donkey kick, crossovers up, pinch at the rail and more.
Coming soon! More info on:
LADD Training Camp featuring Awesome Does Flat Track, March 6-7
TORONTO Camp Awesome, March 5-7 totallyawesomederby@gmail.com
Check out what past campers had to say about TA camp!
"While it’s a great learning experience to play against some of the TA members with their
home leagues or to watch TA in action at ECE, being able to work with TA in a small group
setting during their boot camp was a fantastic opportunity to glean knowledge from some the best minds/skaters in roller derby!"
- Prettie Scarrie, Burning River All-Stars
