You didn’t make the roster. It sucks. What do you do next?
So you haven’t been chosen for the next roster, or you’ve been put on the bench and not had much play. The team is getting better and better, competition is strong and you just...
Category: Player perspective
From DIY ethics to athleticism – how roller derby continues to #PressForProgress
Every International Women’s Day makes me stop and think of all the things I take for granted. All the things other women are not able to do because they don’t have my position of...
Skating through a break-up: how roller derby helped me
When a break-up knocks you down – how does it affect you? You’re likely to end up feeling hurt, because like in derby, it might strike you with a full body check when you’re not...
Player Perspective: Mint Collision
I started playing roller derby in 2010. Over the past 4 years there have been many twists and turns in my derby journey. There have been good things, the occasional bad thing and really...
Player Perspective: Matty “Irn Bru’ises”
My First Year With Liverpool Roller Birds So I was asked a while back to write a blog about my first year in derby. Anyone who has spent a year in derby knows that there...
Roller derby skills: finding your ‘Good Thing’
I don’t read sports psychology books, but from my own experience (taking ages to pass my laps and 18 months as a bouting skater) I think so much of derby is about how you...
Cherry Poppin’ Madness!
We’ve been stuck to the media streams of the Men’s Roller Derby World Cup all weekend – could not tear ourselves away from twitter, the amazing live video feed, or (those of us who were lucky...
Returning to Skating – Mint Collision
We hear a lot about people returning to skating for various reasons; Life took over and they had to take a derby break, they’ve been injured and are (very bravely!) returning, and one of...
