Gears of Derby
May 2012
30 posts
April 2012
42 posts
Violence
- BF: Why are you so violent?
- Me: Duh. Because I play roller derby.
- BF: I think you play roller derby because you're violent.
- Me: I think it's a cyclical problem.
DERBY NAME
We have picked our names and they have been submitted. As soon as we are allowed to use them I was planning on changing some of my online pseudonyms to my derby name. Then I thought why not just set up another account like I did with the blog. I don’t think I am changing the name of this blog, Gears of Derby is too cool!! Some of the girls on my team have made facebook fan pages for their derby alter egos. I made the page and have yet to populate it. Decisions, decisions. What do you do? How do you promote your derbyness?
What's a girl to do
I am still hurt. Instead of pouting and drinking beer I am going to go to practice and NSO until I can skate again (which will be monday).
Play
My Rebels
Today I tried out my freshly adjusted skates. The only issue is that the toe stop is in a different place and if I am not paying attention, I am going to eat it. Other than that, a 1/4 of an inch makes some difference.
I went to the only skate rink in town and spent a few hours rolling around. Well my husband asked if I wanted to race. I kept him behind me for all three laps when suddenly he cut the inside and was next to me. I notice with my super derby awareness that he was off balance. I reach out and gently pushed him toward the ground. EPIC WIPEOUT!! I skated to victory. Every race is practice for a bout.
After assessment in the beginning of April I have been skating only with the team. I went to the rink to practice skating backward because one of our coaches insists that if we can skate backward then everything else is easy. I can do two laps self propelling back ward. I hope I get better at this fast.
One of the harder things
I am having a seriously difficult time with this name thing. I didn’t think it would be this hard. I thought of something clever and maybe mean then I could concentrate on the being the badass blocker everyone is afraid of.
I had a list of names and I either wasn’t in love with them or their were too many variations on twoevils.org. One of the vets has a list and I found an awesome name. I check the availability on twitter and found out about a girl skating in London with that name then when I googled the name I found another skater in Virginia. The issue is that it takes so long to get on the registry so I don’t know of these women have attempted to register this name. For right now my name, like the rest of the noobs is Hey Meat.
I ROCK THEREFORE I ROLL: Biggest thing I've learned from roller derby →
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No matter how many times you fall on your ass trying to do something, get up and try it again.
Seriously. You’re not making any progress if you just throw in the towel and say “Screw it.” There are some things you might get instantly and some things you might try 500 times and still suck at….
Super AWESOME night at practice.
I love being a blocker. I know that we are suppose to be well rounded players, but there is nothing like taking out a shitty or blah day on some of your new best friends. I felt like I was actually doing something right.
ToTaL geek moment: one of the vets high-fived me after I hit someone!!!!
Try Googling "Hip Flexor Stretches" and doing those before you skate. I have problems with my hips (birth defect) and I have to warm up certain things specifically before I work out in order to have a good training session.
Thanks! I’ll do that.
