Category: Derby Life

When Life Gives You Jamming, Make PB & J’s

Oh, jamming.  Sometimes even the word gives me anxiety.  I spent most of last season being a blocker because that’s where my team needed me, and let me tell ya it wasawesome.  I felt so much less pressure because I didn’t have to score points, I got to know my other teammates a little better, […]

Don’t be a Hero! Injuries in Roller Derby

This Monday I went to roller derby practice.  It was a normal practice, just like every other practice before it.  There was no strange scent in the air, no looming sense of anxiety or the hint of a terrible fate on the horizon (stay with me I’m trying to build dramatic effect).  Everything was normal […]

Sometimes Happiness is a Choice

Thank you iOna. Thank you for taking a step back and asking me to take a step up when I didn’t think I wanted to. Thank you for passing me that torch, but mostly, thank you for keeping me in derby. Last month, I wasn’t sure I still wanted to keep paying and going to […]

Me, Myself, and I

My id. I tried for many years to silence it, to make myself be things I wasn’t. To do things I wasn’t suited for. Hangout with people that didn’t get me. But one day, you have to face the fact that your id won’t go away. Once I learned to embrace my id, things sort […]

These Are a Few of My Favorite Things…at RollerCon

RollerCon.  The Mecca of WFTDA roller derby.  Last week, thousands of roller derby ladies flocked en mass to the sparkling desert of Las Vegas in order to learn a few things, meet some new people, let off some steam, and play a ton of roller derby.  Now, I could write about a million pages on […]

Black and Teal vs. Teal and Black! Wait..what?

On the morning of Saturday the 20th, Foco Girls Gone Derby started their mass exodus from their home of Fort Collins to the quiet mountain town of Salida, CO for a much anticipated double-header. The Foco Microbruisers were playing against the Ark Valley High Rollers, a team that has vastly improved within the last year. […]

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