GoinBackToCali
Well-Known Member
So, as many people know, and have been emailing and PM'ing me to ask me how goes it in respect to this.. I thought I would just make a general post...
I left my other team..Actually I was terminated.
I will provide you with a link to the story,as I blog for a worldwide rollerderby forum, connecting rollergirls worldwide. My blog comes out every Weds..
Anyway, here is the reason why..
http://rollerderbyvixens.blogspot.com/2010/03/just-breathe.html
So, in that blog is the nice reasons of what happened with my first team..it's more in depth than that. But I won't go into the mudslinging. They do a good enough job on their own making themselves look bad.
We have turned into a huge league, in almost 9 months of existence, we have had massive media blitz, and a huge following on FB and at our public appearances. We have gotten the other teams cast offs.. thats not as bad as it sounds. The girls they treat like crap, and they get fed up, they come to us..we are known for being kind and fair and good girls (yes I know thats laughable.. it's derby..lol)We have gotten further along in our short time, than my old team has in 2 years of existence.
So..we are slated to play Houston Roller Derby's Knockouts, which is the B team of their HaRD Knocks Team, their all star team made from the best of their other 3 teams that went to NATIONALS in Philly this year.
To quote Whip It... "Has anybody ever thrown up on the track before?"
Yeah cause I will.
So..the side story to this is. I am a blocker. That's all I will ever be. I am a massive wall of a skater, but I am slow. WE all guessed, and I assumed that my careful deliberate skating methodology was because I had slammed my head into the rink floor without a helmet and got a concussion, and my self preservation factor has kicked in, and i'm being careful. Well our coach has figured out, its not the falling, its the getting up i'm crap at. It's 3 seconds to get up, and i'm crap at it. i'm like a big clumsy gorilla. I skate carefully so I won't fall, so I wont have to get up.
So for the past 2 weeks, and coach says possibly for the next 2 months I will be doing nothing but throwing myself down in falls and getting up, not skating. Funny thing is, it must be working, because when I go to take my gear off, I skate over to the bench fast without a care. and when I fell in the middle of the track, I got right back up, without thinking about it, and it was controlled.
So..we think..come November.. we wanna skate my old team for a a Southeast Texas type Bowl. Bragging Rights. A trophy to pass back and forth year to year.
My chance at redemption, my chance to show the woman who was so evil to me and others.. I survived.. I skated...bite me..you didn't win.
Do you have any idea how scary that is?
Should we do it?
My best girls, Boom Boom Pow, and Va Va Doom both said it at the same time.. "It's your shot at redemption..do it"
But I have alot to catch up on, in 5 months, (5 months till we skate Houston, my old team is their apprentice league, and will be front and center witnessing our debut) but in the 2.5 weeks since coach figured out my REAL glitch, and I have been working on it, I have improved dramatically..I'm still scared.. nervous..
Here's our website.. featuring on the splash page the artwork I started, then we got a Disney Intern to finish up for our logo.. I think it looks smashing!
http://www.gulfcoastrollergirls.com
I left my other team..Actually I was terminated.
I will provide you with a link to the story,as I blog for a worldwide rollerderby forum, connecting rollergirls worldwide. My blog comes out every Weds..
Anyway, here is the reason why..
http://rollerderbyvixens.blogspot.com/2010/03/just-breathe.html
So, in that blog is the nice reasons of what happened with my first team..it's more in depth than that. But I won't go into the mudslinging. They do a good enough job on their own making themselves look bad.
We have turned into a huge league, in almost 9 months of existence, we have had massive media blitz, and a huge following on FB and at our public appearances. We have gotten the other teams cast offs.. thats not as bad as it sounds. The girls they treat like crap, and they get fed up, they come to us..we are known for being kind and fair and good girls (yes I know thats laughable.. it's derby..lol)We have gotten further along in our short time, than my old team has in 2 years of existence.
So..we are slated to play Houston Roller Derby's Knockouts, which is the B team of their HaRD Knocks Team, their all star team made from the best of their other 3 teams that went to NATIONALS in Philly this year.
To quote Whip It... "Has anybody ever thrown up on the track before?"
Yeah cause I will.
So..the side story to this is. I am a blocker. That's all I will ever be. I am a massive wall of a skater, but I am slow. WE all guessed, and I assumed that my careful deliberate skating methodology was because I had slammed my head into the rink floor without a helmet and got a concussion, and my self preservation factor has kicked in, and i'm being careful. Well our coach has figured out, its not the falling, its the getting up i'm crap at. It's 3 seconds to get up, and i'm crap at it. i'm like a big clumsy gorilla. I skate carefully so I won't fall, so I wont have to get up.
So for the past 2 weeks, and coach says possibly for the next 2 months I will be doing nothing but throwing myself down in falls and getting up, not skating. Funny thing is, it must be working, because when I go to take my gear off, I skate over to the bench fast without a care. and when I fell in the middle of the track, I got right back up, without thinking about it, and it was controlled.
So..we think..come November.. we wanna skate my old team for a a Southeast Texas type Bowl. Bragging Rights. A trophy to pass back and forth year to year.
My chance at redemption, my chance to show the woman who was so evil to me and others.. I survived.. I skated...bite me..you didn't win.
Do you have any idea how scary that is?
Should we do it?
My best girls, Boom Boom Pow, and Va Va Doom both said it at the same time.. "It's your shot at redemption..do it"
But I have alot to catch up on, in 5 months, (5 months till we skate Houston, my old team is their apprentice league, and will be front and center witnessing our debut) but in the 2.5 weeks since coach figured out my REAL glitch, and I have been working on it, I have improved dramatically..I'm still scared.. nervous..
Here's our website.. featuring on the splash page the artwork I started, then we got a Disney Intern to finish up for our logo.. I think it looks smashing!
http://www.gulfcoastrollergirls.com
