The girl with the Red shoes

I went along to a Mixed Scrimmage (thats roller derby slang for a practise match) this Sunday with teams from Bedford and Romsey and then my team the MK Roller girls to take part in some bashy bashy fun.

There wasn't really a schedule for the day so it was nice to have change to practise some drills with other teams and get used to playing different people.  When we are at our regular practise and scrimmaging with each other we never give our hits at 100%, we play nicely with each other, but it doesn't prepare us for a real bout (competitive game) situtaion.  When we play other teams, I actually get scared cos some of these girls are huge and throw some means hits.  

Oh I should really explain what a hit is, cos i'm guessing your thinking a hit is a punch in the face?! Although i do describe roller derby as rugby on wheels...its more like Bulldog on wheels. So back to what i was saying, a hit is when your hit your opponant with either your booty or anything between your shoulder and knee.

Here are some of my injuries:

 This is where my tights were rubbing against the knobbly bit on my ankle and it actualy wore away the skin to pretty much down to the bone!  I have to bandage it up everytime I skate now!

From a fall, i gengerally do a baseball slide.

This is where i fell over the person in front of me and landed on their skates.

 

This one i am most proud of, this is the result of baseball sliding on just one side!!

I've got some more from this weekend that i'm sure will get uloaded at some point.  None of my injuries even compare to what happened one girl today, she lost her footing and basically her knee went down to break her fall but her body went the other way and when she went to get up 'POP' she went back down and didnt get back up again.  They guessed that she has torn her ligement and so she's pretty much going to be out of derby action for a least 8-10 months....Oh fuck! If something like that happened to me i would be out of derby and work action!  

Even though i know that, i wouldn't dream of giving it up!

Love,
Sassy