before quarantine started and shit hit the fan, I was on my first week of roller derby practice! I made this as a sticker to put on my helmet. My derby name is Gal-go! I can’t wait to get back out on the track!!
Did you know that the Eastside Derby Girls also have a junior team? Well, we do! It’s a fun activity for parents to do with their kids! Even brothers and dads can come and learn to referee!! Come check us out, especially over your summer vacation! ;)
Did you miss our info night on May 31? It’s not too late to come out!! We have practice every Wednesday from 8:30-10:30pm and Sundays from 9am-12pm, Feel free to ask questions on social media as well!
What I love about this is seeing that he’s clearly a hockey skater. Now, I don’t know shit about fuck when it comes to cold slippy antics, but what I notice is different between hockey skaters and nearly all other skaters is that hockey skaters essentially run on the ice. Any other skater is trying to glide, perform, or be otherwise smooth. Create a new type of mobility, but on ice. But hockey skaters? The floor is slippery but that’s why they’ve got knives on their feet, so it’s running time. Run run run run.
So this is like playing tag on ice, except the one guy you’re trying to get is magically not on ice. And I think that’s pretty neat.
He’s also making really good use of the stoppers on the front of his skates. You can clearly see several times that when he starts juking and running he’s not actually running with the wheels in contact with the ground – he’s tipped forward to run on the rubber stoppers, which will give him more traction on the slippery surface. He can change direction faster because none of his kinetic energy is going into countering the inertia of spinning wheels.
I don’t know if the picks on the front of ice skates are used similarly (because ice hockey is not so much of a national pastime in Australia) but I wouldn’t be surprised. But I spent a bit of time with a roller derby team, and I recognised that particular stopper run :)
