Apparently, derby girls like to show off their bruises, so I will post mine for all to see. The colors have since mostly gone away, but I am left with this huge mass and ripply stuff in my leg. I am not super stoked, because I still have a huge lump right below this injury that has been in my leg since I was a sophomore in high school (obtained from a car accident involving myself, no seat belt, a freshly grated dirt road, a small tree, and a Ford Festiva driven by my girlfriend).
Pre-May 14 Bruise
After Derby Bout May 14th
May 15th
May 16th
May 25th
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While researching how to become a better derby player I came across the visual block. In derby, new skaters learn about positional blocking (getting in front of someone) and blocking by making contact with our bodies. Some skaters work on their mental blocking (messing with the opposing skaters head). The visual block is different. Visual blocking is appearing large on the skate court. It is easy for girls who are large to achieve a visual block. For smaller skaters (smaller teams) having an appearance of being larger can help block a skater from entering past your hips. It seems that more and more derby teams have adopted booty shorts and derby skinz as the appropriate bottom uniform for bouting, but are we by wearing less actually causing more penetration through our blockers? Would not a full skirt or tutu actually make the opposing team players perceive that there is less room for them to skate through, therefore attempting less passes and scoring points? My team has won one, lost two. This weekend I will be playing in a bout with our B team. I have made three tutus and asked those that have tutus to bring them. Our team is small, but the other team might not be. The other team might have large ladies swaying in their skates, back and forth in front of me, just holding me back with their enormous rear ends. If that is the case, I will play their game. I will put on that tutu and wear it proud, asking the other ladies on my team to do the same. Starting off small and then getting "big" will not only be a visual block, but a mental block as well. Once they are confused, we will go and knock the crap out of them, while helping our jammer get threw the pack and score us some points. I really look forward to this weekends bout, and I wish all my girlie's the best of luck! Now let's go sport some bunched up tulle!
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Nothing like a metal band playing in the middle of a roller derby bout.
Port City
"ROLLER DERBY!!!!!!!!"
Get low, drop your butt and look back. Hit hard, drop and HIT on the first whistle. Feel your teamates sweet booty. Get in fist fights and don't say sorry.
Goes a little something like this (if I was a Muppet)!!!!!!!
Congratulations to the Mendo Mayhem ladies on their win. Both teams did great! Wishing a speedy recovery to Fiona Fearless and Kylanator. Looking forward to bouting Merced next weekend. It is looking like Mother Nature is not on our side this week for practices. As those of you do or don't know, my team practices outside on a cement track. Due to SNOW in May, practices this week will most likely be canceled. There are no alternate practice facilities, so it will be drills and skills and rules for our girls (85% of this teams roster are ladies who will be bouting for the first time).
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When I was younger, I lived with Jenny in a small two bedroom apartment. Jenny and I would listen to Burning Spear and Luda, eat greens topped with liquid amino's and nutritional yeast, run around bare foot playing in the forests and beaches, enjoyed a summer of "why not's?" dressed as mushroom goddesses. Jenny and I enjoyed our early twenties, that is for sure. As you age, you tend to hold onto those sweet memories, because as the years role forward, summers of "why not?" become maybe a day once every few years. As life becomes more structured and less free flowing, memories are sometime all you have. The other day, I went to my small tattered bookshelf (that actually used to be Jenny's when we lived together) and decided I was going to read a book, an actual tangible, word on paper with page numbers, book. I picked up "Rasta Heart" A Journey Into One Love By Robert and Julia Roshind. When I opened up the book, I found two inscriptions inside.
To Jenny - Our journey is now yours, One Love Robert Roskind
Jenny - Your light sees and gives glorious - Julia
This book was not mine, it was Jenny's, and it was signed by both authors. I contacted Jenny to tell her I had the book and I would send it to her so she could have it back. Her response was different than I expected. She told me she was happy that I had found it and picked it to read, that I should keep it and learn from it. I love that girl. She is always giving of herself, spreading the peaceful messages threw her words and her actions. Jenny will be the first to tell you she's not perfect, but she wants to be so badly. She is a prime example of one love. I am proud to have her as a friend. Thank you for sharing your book with me.
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Try this at home -
Read the words in green SIT AND SPIN and then close your eyes and visulaize yourself spining as fast as you can on a sit and spin toy. You are young, small and full of energy. Keep pushing yourself faster and faster, until you can't push yourself any more. Now stop. Visualise your smaller self getting up from the cross legged position on the floor. How do you feel? When I try this at home, I feel like I am going to puke, just like when I was a kid.
I loved the sit and spin so much, I would twirl for hours on it in our Michigan basement. As I age, I remember more and more wonderful things about my youth. I think about all the games and activities that my brothers and I used to do, like tag outside at dusk, and pogo sticks in the drive way.
I used to roller skate at the rink on the weekends religiously, play t-ball and ride bikes. I wasn't ever the skinniest girl in my school, but I was fit and healthy. My brothers and I kept active playing PIG and HORSE in the front yard, and I liked to hula hoop in the wet grass in our yard. We chased our dog around and played football in the back. My brothers and I built forts behind our barns and went hiking through the trees. We were not thin, but we were strong. In my life currently, I am trying to lose fat, build muscle and add flexibility to achieve a body that I feel better in, through what I am calling "recess". Every day, I get to have recess just like when I was a kid. Like when my mom used to tell me to "go outside and blow the stink off of you". Everyday. At least a 1/2 hour. I want my recess to involve as many people as want to play, utilizing fun things that we did as kids, like skating and hula hooping, or tag played in the sand. I have been doing some online research on hula hooping and am blown away that I haven't added this into my exercise routine before this!
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Please pour yourself a cup of coffee and watch a piece of artistic vision coming strait to you from the 1980's in New Mexico. This is a classic piece and will take ten minutes from your life. Don't worry, it will be worth it! For those of us who live in cooler climates where goggles and ski boots are a part of your wardrobe while shopping at the grocery store, you will appreciate the downhill skating with ski poles and gaiters!
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A throw back commercial for you all to enjoy! The Fisher Price Skate that grows with your little grommet!
AS ALWAYS! HAPPY SKATING AND HAPPY BLOGGING! - MUTTPUPPY!
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Every time I see someone doing something absolutely amazing on skates, it makes me want to learn more and more and more and more! Check this out!
This chick is on the ice, but she is still skating and hula hooping!
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Been busy skating it up outside on the roads and bike paths.
Skating is my most favorite thing to do, especially with my team mates.There hasn't been a shortage of skating partners in my life recently. On the trails, paths or streets,peeps be rallying at any chance to roll.
Charging uphill with a ten pound weight vest is easy when you keep in mind that bathing suit season is upon us (along with BOUTING SEASON)!
The bike paths provide lots of space to practice drills and endurance.
The doggies love to come with too!
When our four legged friends get tired, they get carried (cardio + weights = conditioning).
Soaking the feet and caring for some pretty gnarly blisters underfoot is a small price to pay at the end of the day for how great my body is feeling.
Click HERE to see a flickr photo from 2009
of a Jesus-lookalike-hula hooping and skating
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For those who ride a board with wheels instead of quad skates on your feet, Sibbz is an awesome longboard company featuring the newest designs, customized.
Pre-May 14 Bruise
After Derby Bout May 14th
May 15th
May 16th
May 25th
