Elevator

When you are walling up as a blocker, you shouldn't be relying on just being an arm's length away from your blockers; the closer you can get to to them, the stronger your wall will be, and the harder it is for the jammer to get through.

Have a double pace line, where each person is skating about a foot apart from their partner. This is as if the elevator doors are "open". When someone yells "close" you have to basically have your shoulder/hip/thigh touching your partner's, like you are learning into each other. So basically, you've got a pace line, that is opening and closing as you skate.

We skated around just practicing "open" and "close" first, but hey, after a while, that's not much fun. So then we had someone who had to run through the gauntlet we'd created. So when the "doors" are open, if you are in the back of the pace line, you had to run through as many open doors as you could before they closed. And when they closed you had to slow down so you wouldn't back block the blockers in front of you. And then when they opened again, you ran again, until you got to the front.

The red jammer is trying to get through the pace line, but should maintain their speed
when the doors close. This is also a test to see how fast the blockers can close their gap.

As a jammer doing this, you've only got about a foot of space between the blockers. But that's more than enough. It's also important that when you run you don't kick your feet out sideways because then you'll be clipping people's wheels and kicking their skates out from under them.

Just make sure when the elevator doors open you're not seeing this: