The Morning After...

Attendance for our first exposure to the public was about 320!!! I think that's awesome!! There were a couple of mishaps that we learned from such as the plumbing going out and flooding the two team's locker rooms, one worse than the other I heard. Terrible...Plus we did not have enough water for them to drink. I also heard from some players that they would have preferred to have the after-party closer to the rink, like at Steve's bar across the street from the arena.

Last night was one of the best, most fun nights of my life!! It was so much fun to see people I know from work, and to have my friends and family come to see our debut!!

Thank you to the Sacred City Derby Girls and the Port City Roller Girls for a kick ass fun bout and for all their hard work, and the effort it takes to takes for them to get themselves on the road and up here to Sonora! Thank you Thank you Thank you!! And thank you also to the player from NorCal Roller Girls who passed on a lot of good info. to me.

As for today's practice, a few of us made it. Plus a few new ladies showed up, which is fantastic! We drilled some stops, and got some good hard skating in. Practiced some blocking, some drills stepping across the expanse of the track quickly and my favorite snake drill....

Rehearsal....and plans...

Saturday night's event is going to kick ass!! Although I cannot wait to get back to regular practices. The Sacred City and Port City ladies will be very inspirational for our team to see...Some of us have been to Sacred bouts, but it will be great to meet them and Port City girls and learn how they do what they do....Hopefully they will be kind enough to offer up some good advice from their own experiences playing roller derby...I wish we had way more time to plan this event, but I suppose we should just ride the horse in the direction it's going....

While we interrupt this budding derby life, let's have a look at some way cool derby haiku....

http://derbyhaiku.blogspot.com

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

ODE TO DAVID BOWIE

riff raff, wannabes
derby roadkill- - step aside
slam! bam! thank you, Ma'am.

Posted by lead jammer
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From http://www.derbyluv.com

Clean the arena night....

Getting ready for Saturday's BIG EVENT....

Backwards and Press...

Not only was tonight a fantastic workout, but Greg from Sierra Mountain Times spent the whole practice with us. Very cool of him to spend his time. He said he wishes this had started when he moved here in 2002, (I too wish I had been able to start this 7 years ago)...I was able to clarify that we are not going to be competing within a month let alone a week...glad that is cleared up...

Tonight I skated backwards doing crossovers!! Woo hoo for me! It's taken, oh I don't know, a few practices to be able to do the bit I did tonight, but wow it feels great to get through something I didn't know how to do before.

We did small figure eights, working on our shoulder positions. T, toe and plow stop drills too...one and two knee falls and wowie on my last two knee fall I was messed up on which knee to drop on first and in the middle of my fall I changed from right to left, I now know what it feels like to fall like a total tard and if not for my padding I might have twisted by knee and forearm..Sure glad nothing happened.

For the first time we did drills going through a pack and on the second time through we got to try to actually block a player...Awesome feeling to break through!! And since it was one skater going through, the pack was much larger than the regulation 5 opposing players, there were like 7 or more I think....

No Practice

Went to Modesto to get my laptop fixed and to buy all the red & black clothing and accessories in Modesto....

First practice without Coach Quad Queen

It was a very different practice without our coach. We decided as we went along which drills to do. I felt really worked out and exhilarated afterwards. Four of us were able to go out after practice and had a BLAST getting to know each other better. I LOVE my team mates!! We talked about our plans for getting the rink ready for the exhibition bout on the 30th...lots to do, painting, cleaning etc...Probably won't be able to skate the week prior since we'll be working to get the arena ready....

I'm addicted to the show Rollergirls....a must netflix series if you're a derby girl or a fan....

Back to practice....great one...!

Tried a bunch of regulation minimum requirements...was about 5 seconds from doing 5 laps in one minute...Lots of stops drills, some falling and used a large stick to develop a form around the track which has recently been drawn onto the arena floor...

Also finally had a good time to go out with more of our team mates...we went to Alfredo's and it was kick ass to be able to get to know the people who were there better...Not much time when we are skating all the time we see each other...great fun to go with a great practice..

Found out we made it into the Weekender this past week... Coooool! So that's The Pine Tree and Weekender (new issue not up yet) who have shown good taste in sports teams this past week.. ;) I heard that The Pine Tree will be doing an article as well in their 27th issue, by Kim Mathie..Very nice...I'm thankful our effort produced some interest...we pay for all we do so it's great to get some community support for our first fundraiser...

About to bring my ♥ to San Francisco....

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First Tuesday Practice..

That was cool to go right from work right to skating. I hope this new day and time catches on and doesn't get canceled. I know I'll be there every Tuesday at 7. Three skaters showed up and we and QQ skated for an hour and a half. When one had to go we all left. That was really nice because we don't get a lot of time to know each other so I enjoyed chatting with QQ, the freshly named Wicked Princess and Jodrlicious.... They are both very good skaters....Plus this extended skating time was probably good for my heart...I heard the parade went great Saturday.

Hmm...time for a graphic image....what to do...what to do......?

Roller Derby Romance - by rosalin

Roller Lemons by candy2021

Mum....!

Last night of finals...

Derby Girls That Go Woooooooooooooo!

Ugh swollen, painful throat tonight...headache...earache....But no way could I miss four practices in a row...I missed the ladies SO MUCH! Nice to be back on my wheels....Excellent practice and I can see how far I've come personally, body strength wise...

We did some killer drills tonight and had a lot of fun too... We tried 20 laps in 5 minutes...I think I was about 3 laps short...and 1/2 lap short of 5 in 1 minute...Not too bad....Went out with the twins, G-girl and Kimstigator afterwards for even more fun....

Time to eat more raw garlic and collapse..in the hopes of healing up overnight....

Cool graphic from: http://www.dominionderbygirls.net