School of ARRG Knocks

Upcoming Boot Camps

School of ARRG Knocks - Summer Specials!

Boot Camp 1: New Beginnings
Date: Sat 7th July 2018
Location: Holyrood High School
Time: 11am – 4pm
Ticket Price: £20
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Boot Camp 2: Guest Session - Hanna P from Crime City
Date: Sun 15th July 2018
Location: Grangemouth Sports Centre
Time: 12:00 – 17:00
Ticket Price: £25
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Previous Boot Camps

2017 - School of ARRG Knocks: Guest Session - Lorrae Evans from VRDL

2016 - School of ARRG Knocks 5: SOAK5al!

2015 - School of ARRG Knocks 4: HungARRG games

2014 - School of ARRG Knocks 3: ARRGer than ever

2013 - School of ARRG Knocks 2: Even ARRGer

2012 - School of ARRG Knocks

Picture from the 2012 School of ARRG Knocks. Photo credit: Bill Henderson.

 

All about School of ARRG Knocks!

What makes SOAK so different from other boot camps?
When talking about setting up our first SOAK boot camp in 2012, we really wanted to make our boot camps affordable and accessible and a bit different. In line with our leagues ethos of growing derby as a sport, none of our ARRG coaches take personal income from delivering training at these boot camps, all of the money gets ploughed straight back into our league - WHY? Because without our league, and the opportunities it’s given us, we wouldn’t be in a position to be sharing our knowledge and skills with you all.

Our biggest priorities are bringing a lot of FUN, CREATIVITY and EXPERTISE into a day that is GREAT VALUE.

FUN
To have fun themes, keep the energy up, create supportive and accessible environments, and most of all to inject people with the love of derby and to remind people that training doesn’t always have to be boring repetitive drills. Approaching problems with creative solutions is the most fun thing ever. We also throw music and a pun in at every opportunity - our league run boot camps have become legendary for their hilarious warm ups.

CREATIVE
Running such a big league, with so many different levels of skaters, our coaches constantly try to come up with creative and different ways to approach drills and we wanted to share those approaches as far as possible; if we can inspire one person to step back and think about drills, or their home leagues training environment a little differently, then we’re happy bunnies. We were the first to bring ramps to you and host a beginners ramp class, and other past creative happenings have included parachutes, balls and giant crash mats for confident hitting training.

GREAT VALUE
By this we mean as affordable as we can make them, and also value for money by including as much as we can! We don’t spend one hour watching you do the same move over and over, we equip you with several drills and ideas to take back to your own league and an understanding of how to measure success/development against the drills and how to expand them and add to them.

EXPERTISE
As our league has grown, many of our members have been inspired to change careers, train formally and informally and gain experience in all sorts of areas - Psychology, Nutrition, Personal Training and coaching methods. We’ve also built up a huge amount of experience over ten years in league structures, training, team building and team selection/feedback processes. We want our skaters to want to come to training, so we focus a lot of energy on continuously improving our structures around training and development; we’re keen to share what we’ve learnt with you!

If you would like us to bring a boot camp to your league - visit our Coaching Outreach page for more details.