Rocket 95.1FM is my favorite radio station in Huntsville, and I never miss the Go Fish morning show on the way to work every morning.Fish's sidekick, Ken, was just dumped by his girlfriend this past weekend, and they played the breakup on air. So by Wednesday, they decided to do a rebound radio … [Read more...]
Dixie Derby Girls Examiner
Well, its official... Huntsville now has its own dedicated section on Examiner.com for Dixie Derby Girls news and other derby related reporting.And guess who is the writer for the section??? Yep, yours truly!The website, which organizes and features hyper-local news related to your community, has … [Read more...]
Down & Derby in my old backyard
There's nothing like visiting your old stompin' grounds and catching up with your old friends after being gone for several years. Even better when your return is to take part in a kick-butt Roller Derby event that you can invite old friends to come watch your new found passion!Coming up on February … [Read more...]
Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, DODGE!
It's that time of year again, folks. The much-anticipated time of year when you can round up 10 of your rowdiest friends and throw them in the cage for all-out ball-busting battle for Dodgeball supremacy.16 teams will dodge, duck, dip, dive, and DODGE their way through the tournament. The last team … [Read more...]
Broken Hearted Wheel Melt
Last night was the 3rd Annual Broken Hearted Skate-a-thon. Its a great event where each skater raises pledges per laps (or simple flat donations) to help the American Heart Association.This year, I was challenged to skate over 250 laps in the 2 hour skate-a-thon time frame, or as my friend so nicely … [Read more...]
Training: Week One
Out on the interwebs, the theme among most roller derby skaters is simple this time of year: TRAIN, TRAIN, TRAIN.If there really is such a thing as a derby off-season, January probably is the closest thing you'll find. Admittedly, this skater took to the couch for most of the holiday season, and for … [Read more...]
Broken Hearted Skate-a-Thon
Can you spare a little change? Its time for our Annual Broken Hearted Skate-a-thon, where we skate our very festively-dressed bootays off to raise money for the American Heart Association. WE NEED YOUR HELP! You can come skate laps for Broken Hearts with us on February 10th at Roller Time Skate … [Read more...]
How I discovered Derby…
....Though the real question is how DIDN'T I discover it before!?It had been over 15 years since I had really been on roller skates (save for some inline skating about 10 years ago), but some of my favorite childhood memories were from putting on my aunt's old roller skates in our garage and … [Read more...]
Dear Derby Santa
Dear Derby Santa,I've been a bad good, good rollergirl. How about getting me a few gifts to shove in my fishnet & stiletto stockings? You know, it IS the off-season training time, and what better time to break in new gear than as I sweat off all those holiday hangovers extra pounds??!?Tell Blitzen & … [Read more...]
Chain Gang train wrecks the Junktion
Another great bout weekend, this time I was lucky enough to participate in Chattanooga's first Roller Derby expo bout as a guest skater. The Chattanooga Rollergirls are a newly formed league, filled with some great skaters with a lot of great things happening for them.Dixie was the first team they … [Read more...]