12 Weeks To Derby Ready

Goal: Build your foundation, confidence, and control on eight wheels.

• Core Skills & Agility: Footwork fundamentals, quick starts, two-foot spins, and 180-degree jumps.
• Safety & Control: Graceful falling techniques, quick stops, and rising safely from falls while moving.
• Transitions & Flow: Forward crossovers, smooth forward-to-backward transitions, and backward scissors/cross-pulls.
• Assessment: Skills assessment at week 4 to qualify for Level 2.

Goal: Increase speed, lateral agility, and introductory contact.

• Basics Refinement: Reinforce footwork, stopping, and crossovers for total muscle memory.
• Duck Running & Power: Explosive toe-stop running techniques for fast acceleration.
• Track Control: Advanced lateral movements slicing across inside, middle, and outside track lines.
• Blocking 101: Introduction to legal contact—shoulder checks, hip checks, and body checks.

Goal: Game awareness, team walls, track communication, and strategy.

• Phase 1 (Observation): Reading track play and understanding game flow before stepping onto the floor.
• Phase 2 (The Lineup): Rapid jammer line setup, team wall alignment, and explosive whistle starts.
• Phase 3 (Wall Work & Talk): Seaming up hip-to-hip for 2-person walls and real-time communication.
• Phase 4 (Scoring Pass): Strategy execution—goat capture, man-on-man defense, and jammer control.
• Rookie Assessment: Final skills evaluation to qualify for team draft!