by Smash Ketchum | Nov 19, 2025 | Blog, Derby Life
Each year, autumn rolls into Fort Collins with bright leaves, and crisp cool nights. As the year comes to a close we savor our pumpkin-spiced treats, burrow into our coziest sweaters, and reflect on the year that has passed. For many people this is a treasured time of...
by Mad Cow | Oct 12, 2025 | Blog, Derby Life
Roller derby is a sport of speed, strategy, serious hits…and the supernatural? From pre-bout rituals to post-scrimmage routines, derby players tend to carry their own personal superstitions and rituals. Maybe it’s part habit, part magic, but whatever the reason,...
by Smash Ketchum | Oct 12, 2025 | Blog, Derby Life
Big hits, big bruises, and beautiful boutfits, Foco Roller Derby’s annual Black & Blue Ball has it all. Roller derby blends the athletic and the theatrical, from derby names and personas to carefully crafted “boutfits”, and never is this more apparent than...
by Brewski | Feb 23, 2025 | Derby Life, Events, Featured, News
Game Play Play is broken up into two 30-minute periods, which are then broken into units of play called “Jams,” which last up to two minutes. There are 30 seconds between each Jam. During a Jam, each team fields up to five Skaters. Four of these Skaters are called...
by Danger | Apr 12, 2022 | Blog, Derby Life
This past weekend the Colorado Shiners hosted the BIPOC BOWL at the Rollerdome in Denver. The event was not all roller derby. There was local food, artists, vendors in the BIPOC and roller derby community, an art show, a silent disco, and MORE!The first BIPOC BOWL was...
by FoCo Roller Derby | Aug 14, 2019 | Blog, Derby Life
The 10 Day Roller Derby Challenge is a Facebook photo chain that went viral in the roller derby community in the Summer of 2019. It allowed members of the community — active or retired, skater, official, announcer or volunteer — to share some of their...
