Tuesday 24 February 2015

Roller derby explained in a simple YouTube video

Sometimes, when I tell people about derby, one of the most difficult things to explain about the rules is that it's a points scoring game, where BOTH teams play offense and defense at the same time. For some reason, this is confusing to people.

In the past, there's been a standard roller derby explanation video that I've seen at bouts:



 However, it's literally the basic rules, and doesn't really get into a lot of the strategy, or why people do what they do in a pack. There are other pretty simple rules that explain that.

Here's a video that Rose City put together which sums THAT up pretty well, as well as with the basics:

I guess the only tricky part is if you're not familiar with American currency?


Plus, it also says Roller Derby > pretty much every North American sport, so yeah. Enjoy, and learn!