OPR ‘Half-lap skate and wait’ practice

**Drill brought to Australia by Judge Knot, Texas
Objective:  To practice the ‘half lap skate and wait’ pattern for OPRs
Typical length of drill: Any
Materials needed: Taped-out track

Skill level required: Basic skating skills needed

Description: Split referees into two equal-ish groups with each group standing at a pick-up point (corners 2/4 or 1/3 depending on your crew’s preference). Trainer or ref volunteer gets on track as ‘bunny’ and as they pass each corner they pick up/drop off the following OPR. The OPR should try to skate alongside the bunny and should be able to trace an imaginary line between their own skates and the bunny’s. The bunny sets the difficulty level of this drill by speeding up, slowing down, stopping or skating backwards.

Additional notes: Rotate the bunny around and give everyone a go. Fresher refs seem to really enjoy pushing the skills of more experienced refs.

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Angela J Williams, PhD, is a writer, illustrator and story teller from Wollongong, Australia. She is the author of Snakes and Ladders: a memoir and host of the Deboning Power Podcast. A writer, thinker and yeller, Angela Williams is mildly notorious for seeing problems and pointing them out. She’s tussled with Fred Nile in the Sydney Morning Herald, taken academia to task in the Guardian’s Anonymous Academic, gone to Crikey about the treatment of mentally ill women in prison, and most recently blown the whistle on dangerous risks in her (former) charity workplace. Angela does one thing really well – find problems and yell about them.

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