Watching Video to Increase your Track and Pack Awareness

Here is a way I think you can work on track and pack awareness in your off skates time (and watch derby).

First of all, any watching of derby is good!  If you want to focus on increasing track awareness, I think this might help even more though:

Watch a derby game (I suggest the WFTDA.tv archives).  When you see something jammer related happen (jammer gets out of the pack, jammer approaches the back of the pack, jammer gets hit out, jammer goes the penalty box, etc), pause the game, look at where the teams are and try and guess what they are going to do next, then press play and see what actually happens and whether it was successful.  Try and guess both what the jammer may do (say when approaching the back of the pack or after being hit out) and what the blockers for each team are going to do.

The more time you spend trying to consciously be aware of what's going on while watching derby, the more you develop the ability to pick up on subtle cues that will help inform you what you should do on the track and a general understanding of what strategies work when.