Saturday 14 December 2013

Sb liveblog: bout 3 & 4

I have a bit of a break now, and there is the second 1-year bout on. There is a fair amount of good talent here in milk vs cookies. They are back bridging and walling up, and acting on power jams. And bleeding on the track apparently so emts have to clean it up:

The teams are mixed from leagues so usually they are pretty close in skill. Final score: cookies 120, milk 66.

Second intermediate bout was also pretty good, and and you could see a lot more blockers switching from defense to offense. And there was a lot more talking.

I picked intermediate this time since I don't think I would make it in the advanced bout, but even at some pointswith  intermediate I felt as if it wasn't as hard as I had expected. 

Anyway, then that bout was over and it was time for mixed skills!
 
Yay!


Sb liveblog: bout 1

The first intermediate bout was awesome!

Also, there were people wearing this:

I jammed a fair bit and didn't go to the box, hooray! The floor was pretty brutal and I fell a bit. But I also managed to hit people and they fell! Yay! Anyway, my shins are a bit sore from all the concrete pounding, and we only lost by 6 points, but it was a good start to year 2!

Sb liveblog: we have arrived!

Hello Richmond!! Our first bout just started for people under one years experience. So far we are just warming up while the first year bout is going on. Whee! 

Friday 13 December 2013

Seasons Beatings, the second year: the night before

So here I am packing seasons beatings again. However, this year I managed to only pack two bags of food, which is equivalent to about this much:

That foil thing is two PB&Banana and two PB, Nutella and Banana sandwiches.

Goliath once said that I take enough food to a bout with me to feed a small village. Heh.

I'm super stoked to be driving up tomorrow to see and skate with all the awesome people I met last year! Yeah! 

(Also, this post was a sneaky way for me to test my liveblogging capacities. Phew!)

Seasons Beatings, the second year now liveblogged!!

So a few exciting things:

1. I now have entered the 21st century and have a smartphone.

2. I am going to Season's Beatings again this year. It is this Saturday! We're driving up in the morning and my first bout is at 11:45.

This time will be mega cool; the people I skated with last year in the beginner division have been in touch and we're all stoked to go back to where we met (but now in the intermediate group) and also, there'll be more people from NRV headed up (and now that I know them better, it's like there are more friends all around. Yeah!). So hopefully that will be good. Last year it was super fun although afterwards I could barely walk or do anything.

So what I'm going to do is try to liveblog the event if I can get my phone and blogger to co-operate. Yeah!

Monday 2 December 2013

League of Legends gets onto the derby franchise

In my non-derby time I am a bit of a gamer nerd. A few weeks ago, Blizzard made a roller derby alternate outfit for one of the chars in their League of Legends clone.


She's supposed to be a roller derby girl I guess, and she has the pads and quads and a jammer star on her head and pigtails coming out of her helmet... what? And what's with the weird bra thing? I'm not sure how I feel about the typical roller derby outfit being all short shorts and long socks, since I guess that works for some people but I've seen a lot more skaters move towards more athletic pants and not weird boob armor. At least she's got the appropriate derby gear on, which you don't usually see when people try to derbify other things. :P