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Urrk’n Derby: Roller Derby T-stops

When learning to do a T-stop keep weight in front leg using outside edge, back leg should be lightly touching, don’t shift all your weight onto your back leg. Slowly put pressure evenly onto your back leg; and touch all 4 wheels to the ground. Once your comfortable with the light weight on your back […]

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Urrk’n Derby: Derby Right Foot Snow Plow

Right foot snow plows help with lateral movement when stopping a jammer when you combine them with center snow plows and Left foot snow plows. To develop more roller derby skills visit UrrknDerby.com

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Urrk’n Derby: Roller Derby Straightaway strokes

Roller derby Straightaway strokes involve pushing and transferring your weight from one leg to the other, when shifting your weight be sure to circle your leg behind you and don’t kick straight back. To develop more roller derby skills visit UrrknDerby.com

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Urrk’n Derby: Stationary Crosses for Roller Derby

Stationary Crossing helps with shifting your weight, non-skating crosses, using your edges and adjusting your footing to exchange your feet instead of stepping across. To develop more roller derby skills visit UrrknDerby.com

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Urrk’n Derby: Roller Derby Stance

Roller derby stance covers the nose, knees and toes technique that will help improve your derby stance which will also help improve your snow plows when playing derby. To develop more roller derby skills visit UrrknDerby.com

Urrk’n Derby: Roller Derby Edges

Roller Derby Edges covers all the different edges you can use on your skates, with front and side views to help show the different edges on your skates. To learn more visit UrrknDerby.com

Urrk’n Derby: Roller Derby Center Snow Plow

Roller Derby Center snow plow includes derby stance, weight shifting, which edges to use and proper placement of your feet. To learn more visit UrrknDerby.com

94.3 The X: Roller Derby Crash Course

Shelby from middays on 94.3 The X gets a Roller Derby Crash Course from FoCo Roller Derby… literally. https://youtu.be/a_ICFojwMc0

My Weight Loss Journey

So why did you join roller derby? This is usually one of the first questions someone asks me when they find out I joined the sport. I respond to that question similarly to most of the things in my life- I did it on a whim. After all, I had never attended a bout. I […]

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 […]

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