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...]
Roller Derby: Finally, a quality American export
Roller derby has hit Britain! The American, largely female-only sport has been exported to Britain and is growing exponentially.Check out this piece in The Guardian about the emergence of the sport overseas.This is very good news for overseers of British women's physical fitness (note the … [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...]
Movie recommendation: Go see Whip It!
Sorry for the absence these past two weeks. Little bit of travel and some pending deadlines have made me a little scattered.But the weekend is nearly here and if you are looking for something indoorsy to do (temps here dropped 30 degrees in one day--*sigh*--with rain the forecast) go see Whip It!I … [Read more...]
Let the good times roll
Drew Barrymore's directorial debut isn't the only place where you can find wheels a-turnin' lately. Roller skating is as hot as ever and there are a number of roller sports that have novices and spectators alike spinning: Roller Disco: Whether or not you even remember the Disco Days, you can pull on … [Read more...]
Roller Derby film “Whip It” rocks
We've been following … [Read more...]