The Rules of Flat Track Roller Derby

6.7 - Multi-Player Blocks

6.7.1 - Skaters may not grab and hold each other’s uniform or equipment in a multi-player block.

6.7.2 - Skaters may not use their hands, arms, or legs in any grabbing, holding, linking, or joining fashion in a multi-player block.

6.7.3 - Touching and assisting teammates that does not create a wall to impede an opponent or prevent another skater receiving a block from an opponent is not a multi-player block.

6.7.4 - The multi-player link must be that which is blocking or impeding an opponent for the action to be illegal.

6.7.5 - Temporarily grabbing a teammate’s clothing, equipment, or body part to push or pull, thereby adjusting the skater’s speed or the teammate’s speed.

6.7.6 - Touching, but not grabbing and/or holding, a teammate while blocking.

6.7.7 - Holding a teammate in a front-back direction while blocking or to stabilize from a block, as long as the point of contact is not impeding opposing skaters.

6.7.8 - Maintaining a multi-player block to impede or block an opponent, including to prevent another skater receiving a block from an opponent for any amount of time.

The following egregious acts will be automatic game expulsions and can be punished as a multi-game suspension (see Section 7.4.2.2). Expulsions will be issued for a conscious and forceful attempt to block an opponent in an egregious manner while executing a multi-player block.

6.7.9 - Intentional, negligent, or reckless contact with an opponent while executing a multi-player block in an illegal manner.