The title describes it all. The week was about communication, defense and dummy halves. I didn’t really do much, I did learn a lot of technical stuff. For example, how dummy halves work. I learnt how the dummy half is essentially just an excuse to stop people from solo stomping, instead they duo stomp. Most of the time, the dummy: picks up the ball after the person with the ball is touched and plants the ball. A ball planting is basically just placing the ball down for the dummy half to pick up. The dummy half then either passes the ball to someone else, passes it back to the previous owner (I swear there’s a difference), or tries and scores but fails because dummy halves can’t score. That was interesting to learn because without context there is zero reason for there to be a dummy half other than balance.
Another important part of the week was about positioning and defensive “sliding”, literally just walking to match the person you aim to stop. I believe the most important part would’ve been the communication. Knowing your comms is vital to playing efficiently because this game has been catered towards teamwork and NOT solo stomping. Especially when you’re with a bunch of people that defend on offense. In summary, next week will be absolute hell. Zero highlights by the way if you were so curious.