Back to school blues.....

In very un-like me fashion, for some reason I thought yesterday was the day to register for my classes...turns out it was the first day of the class I need to take...Long story short...I practiced from 7-8...7:18 is actually when I got on the floor....My new friend at work is going to give derby a whirl...so we met before practice and left where we were about 10 til....It took me until 7:18 to get on the floor, as I said, and that was partly due to introducing my friend to another rookie, (don't care for that term), player...and, as usual, I messed up putting on my gear...I always forget to put on one or more knee guards before my skates... :)....Also, unlike my "normal" self, I went to change at the end of work and found I forgot my pants..or spanks...or stretchy pants..whatever they are called now, at home..so I rushed to buy a pair on the way to meet my friend and cool...got a pair and though they are terribly long and had to be pushed up my thighs to make the wrinkles of them go away, here's to them shrinking...

[Funnny..and clever...
Velma Revolver is my 3rd favorite roller girl]

Practice was led tonight by Sheedbomb. We began with giant 8's, I was late for stretching and pre-skating so I just skated up real quick and fast a couple times and then went to the big 8's with the others...Next we did the dreadfully painful squatting on command trick...but I do enjoy getting the really painful parts over with quick... Next we did a spread the track as quick as a lick drill..where we are attempting to get from one side of the track to the other asap.

We moved on into the chop-chop start and land on one knee in the middle and the end. The more times we did that, the more it was a challenge to get up without touching the floor. I'll get better at that.

Then it was (yeah, I know we did a lot in my short time there tonight!), two knees fall in the middle, and a baseball slide out...or rather, a full-body slide out...fuck baseball ;)... We then did some actual stopping on the line drills and for some reason my plow stop was not in as top a form as last time...

Into the pack formation we went and we did the lovely snake weave...(so sexy)...

Finally we whipped each other from behind and through the pack...criss-crossing usually...I see now that some ladies grab hands and not my forearm...we talked about that at the last practice and felt we should expect a grab on the arm and not fingers...some people maybe forgot or weren't here for that lesson...

Ok..some do..I'm not quite there yet... :)

Anywhoozle...it's 12:15 am on the 19th and if I had stayed for the whole practice like I wanted to, it would be 1:15 am now...so I have that going for me...it's like winning an hour of sleep!

xox

-Sweet Alyce