Posts Tagged ‘roller derby bout’


AstroDerby

Thursday, July 12th, 2012

July 21, 2012
This day in History:

On July 20, 1969, a couple of fellows named Neil and Buzz landed on the moon. 6 hours later, on July 21, 1969, they finally pulled on their crash pads*, opened the door to their space-cruiser and took a peek outside. While other folks had sent objects off into the wilds of space, this was the first time actual people had crunched those moon bits under their boots.

July 21, 2012, is a big day in our history. Today marks our home opener – Season 1 Bout 1. It’s our Apollo 11.

*crash pads: pull on booty shorts with protective padding, also worn in roller derby.

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Chinook City Roller Derby is proud to present Apollo 11 – S1B1. This is our first public bout since Flat Track Fever and we are excited to be presenting a double header featuring a junior invitational bout and then the newest CCRD team, Natural Born Thrillers will be taking on the Oil City Drill Bits in a co-ed bout! Come one, come all for awesome roller derby action!

Tickets online for $10 http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/254931 or $12.00 at the door, cash only. Children 10 and under get in FREE!

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Men in (fishnet) tights?

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012

Remember when “you hit like a girl!” was an insult?  But with more mens’ roller derby teams cropping up across the world, it has become less of a slur and more of a compliment!  Check it out at Flat Track Fever, the largest roller derby tournament this side of the rockies! Roller boyz from Canada and the US will take to the track to show derby fans that they can indeed hit like girls!  Come watch the Vancouver Murder, the Glenmore Reservoir Dogs (Calgary), the Red Deer Dreadnaughts, and the Puget Sound Outcast (USA) Saturday, April 14th at the Olympic Oval in Calgary as they battle it out, mens’ derby style!

And just to prove roller boyz and girls can compete on an even playing field, there are also co-ed scrimmages happening throughout the weekend…

See? Betcha didn’t know roller derby was all about equal opportunity…:)

www.flattrackfever.chinookcity.ca

Photos by Steve Recsky

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hunger games on wheels

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

The countdown is on…

With 11 days remaining until the kick off of Alberta’s largest roller derby tournament, teams from around the province and beyond its borders are getting all fired up for Flat Track Fever!  Fishnets, tattoos, and quirky derby names, combined with finesse, strategy, and speed on eight wheels promise to make next weekend historically awesome!

Especially since it is an all ages show, both on and off the track.  That’s right; hot on the heels of the Hunger Games, Calgary’s own Youthanizers, with some other kids refusing to eat their dinners, are showing their mad derby skillz Friday night at 6 pm in some kid on kid scrimmages – to the death! More murderous minor action takes place on Saturday at 2:15 pm as the Greater Edmonton Rot’n Rollers take on the GTown Derby Bratz.

If you can’t bring yourself to beat your children, come watch them beat each other!!!

Check out the Youthanizers and other Flat Track Fever participants at:

http://www.flattrackfever.chinookcity.ca/index.php

See you there!

 

Photos courtesy of GEJRDA website http://gejrda.vpweb.ca/

 

 

 

 

 

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Keeping An Eye on Roller Derby Referees

Sunday, February 6th, 2011

Viv the Shiv captured by Papa Razzo

There is a plague among our land, a scourge that is targeting a certain community.  It strikes fast and hard, and, at this point in time, no cure. 

Referee blindness is an epidemic of staggering proportions.

If you are a derby ref you should know something before you drop down to leave me a nasty comment: the afflicted are usually the last to know.  

Talk to the ladies on the track, they’ll state their shock at how the refs aren’t calling the back blocking.  On the bench they’re stunned with the low blocking and how their jammer has been trying to call it off for an entire lap and how could anyone miss her frantic signal?  The girl in the penalty box is pretty sure it was bad angle and she didn’t cut the track, thank you.  She was framed. (more…)

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