Save your point!

Here's one thing that I learned about blocking if you're not doing a 4-wall (i.e. in a straight line). Suppose you're all rushing to the front of the pack to save your point. How should you go about that?


To illustrate this, suppose the yellow jammer is coming up to the blockers (as seen below):

You would probably want your weakest blockers (2 and 3) to be furthest up front. Why? In virtue of being the weakest blockers, they are the most likely to get sucked back into the pack. So you want to keep them in the pack, but as far away as possible from the opposing jammer, who would get their point. (And I guess you'd also want them as far away from the opposing blockers, who might goat them. But of course, this should all be done while still maintaining the pack.)

Of the two of those, you might put the weakest one in Blocker 3's position, so at least 2 can hold the inside line (with B1 if necessary). Plus it would take the jammer more energy to get to the outside past B3. 

This would entail that you also leave your strongest blocker (Blocker 1) in the back, and if necessary they can tractor-trailer off the frontmost blockers, to hold the jammer in the pack and stop her getting the points of all three blockers.



This probably all sounds really obvious in retrospect, but sometimes I need obvious things explained to me to help the light bulb go on!