I love:
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Easily one of the most popular skaters from Rat City Roller Girls. Here she is taking a moment during the Grave Danger vs. Tilted Thunder Rail Birds All-Stars bout at last weekend’s Jingle Bell Brawl.
More photos on Flickr.
At World Cup I overheard a conversation among her and other Team USA skaters about babies/people retiring. She said she would need to get a surrogate to have a baby for her so she could keep playing.
(via thewhip)
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Calling Batman.
i love when good drill is made
(Source: nowiamquartermaster, via sssssally)
I”m having a fit of insomnia and just spent a half hour reading the wiki page on the Hobbit movie. Holy shit, I’m excited.
I was on my lunch break at work today and the TV in the break room was set to ESPN, which I normally despise. The world of professional athleticism is a mystery and also rather appalling to me so I generally try to avoid it but they were showing a little 5 minute thing about the USA Woman’s Soccer team and their recent victory over Brazil to make it into the World Cup semifinals. It was narrated by Abby Wambach one of the greatest female soccer players of all time who is also, coincidentally, from Pittsford, NY.
So, how does this relate to derby? Well, they started by showing her walking out of the locker room and onto the field and she was talking about the excitement and how the first few minutes of the game are the craziest because the crowd is all excited and everyone’s nervous. Then she was just going through the game and talking about the important moments/goals and how those felt and I found myself relating to everything she was saying on a level that I had never experienced before.
I may be just a B-team skater, and one of the least skilled on the team, but I’ve been that person, coming out of the locker room, being nervous and psyching yourself up for a game. I know the feeling of being in the middle of a game and not having things going your way but also the feeling of coming back from that and being part of that moment when everything changes for you and your team. Especially, I know the feeling of being part of a team and accomplishing something huge together.
It’s just a testament to the way that roller derby can bring this whole world of highly competitive athleticism to women who would not otherwise know or have any experience with it. Derby has a way of connecting women not only with community of women who play it but also the whole world of women’s sports in general.
Squirrel!Arthur? GIVE ME.
Cute!
For the fair maiden!
It’s been a busy weekend. Friday night I left straight from work to head to Feasterville,PA outside of philly with my buddy Smashing Kali and her teammate Arizona Lightning from syracuse’s Assault City Roller Derby for ECDX. While we were in the parking lot of the hotel waiting for the rest of our crew to arrive Hannah texted me saying marriage was now legal in New York State. Another symbol of her derby hood, her gf is in Pennsylvania at a derby thing when marriage is legalized.
ECDX was the bestest. It would have been better if my lady had been there. But it was so much good derby and I think seeing some of the best skaters in the world up close like that has inspired me to work harder.
GPOYW: Me and my girls Bombers with the Ithaca SufferJets.
We lost, but it was still really fun.
I met my Tumblr buddy, cellothebandit.
At the after party, I was in the second-to-the-top row of our pyramid.
At the after after party, an Australian girl opened my beer with her teeth and put a two foot long neon straw in it.
Ithaca knows how to party, man.
