Dead End Derby's Evil K'Neevil showed off amazing experience with some confident jamming on Saturday night at ASB Stadium in Whangarei.
DED's Knockit Rocket showed some amazing skills too and between her as jammer, and Baddy as pivot, they proved how effective passing the star can be.
Even when Christchurch didn't get lead jammer, they skated their butts off and got around either forcing the jam to be called off, or being within the pack before the opposing blockers knew to expect them.
But that was nothing compared to what felt like textbook examples of blocking. They did well to get into formations, show that the pack is really where it's all going on and that it's all a team effort. Stretching the pack was followed up by quickly forming back into a cohesive unit. Slowing down the opposing jammer long enough for passed blockers to get back in front was all par and course of their strategy.
The Northland Nightmares Hell's Wives played a good game. By about half time I was asking myself why is the point difference so big? So while it was a really positive effort it just wasn't being converted into points. The last 10 minutes was impressive. Northland played their hearts out. Unfortunately, it was also about this time that their jammers started getting some penalties.
