With our next Open Day just around the corner on Sunday 3 March, we decided to find out more about what it’s like to be a new skater and progress through our training program,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
