The second was designing uniforms for the World Cup. Knowing the teams from around the world would be wearing my designs was mind-blowing. It is a strong color combo. Strong just like Las Mujeres Fuertes. When I was young I practiced drawing skulls from heavy metal album covers. It really makes me happy when I draw skulls. I Miss Mosh Pits : I love going to concerts and had a lot of shows booked for Then enter stage left Covid I really do miss mosh pits.
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Check out her retail store online here: www. Garzig retail is also on Instagram, and she has a virtual pop-up to highlight small businesses she loves at www. Skate names reveal a lot about the culture of the sport, and the women who play it, including the fact that a lot of them are geeks, and many are science fiction fans. Earlier this year, when we created a taxonomy of several thousand skate names—which represents only about two percent of all the skate names in the world—around one in ten had a science fiction theme, and more than half of those were inspired by Star Wars.
Which character from the Star Wars fictional universe is the popular in the real universe of roller derby? Sith Lords are an over-represented group among skaters: there are 32 Sith on our list, versus only 27 Jedi.
And the 27 Jedi? Most of the are inspired by the second most popular Star Wars character in roller derby, Obi-Wan Kenobi.
Pictures: Joshua Hoover. The next three most popular characters, each with 10 skate names each on our list, are all rebels of one kind or another: R2-D2, Chewbacca, and Princess Leia. Why all the love between roller derby and Star Wars?
Well, one is some kick ass women leading a rebellion against an empire of evil clones. The other is Star Wars. A poster of the taxonomy is available here. Our taxonomy is based on a selection of names from the brilliant, free online database at www. If you play roller derby and have not entered your skate name into derby roll call yet, we highly recommend it. Our map of roller derby leagues.
Get a poster here ; see it in high-resolution here. The event gradually transformed into full-contact, semi-scripted televised sports entertainment, where teams of men and women fought to lap one another for points. Then, in , a group of women in Austin, Texas reinvented roller derby. They kept the retro kitsch and the outright rebellion of women playing a full-contact team sport, repurposed skateboarding safety gear, threw out scripts and remade roller derby as a competitive sport.
They eventually formed two leagues, the Lonestar Rollergirls, which played on a banked track, and the Texas Rollergirls, which played on a flat track. A poster for one of the first modern roller derby bouts, played in Austin on August 4, They used the newly popular Internet to help spread the word about roller derby, and soon other women started leagues of their own, most with flat tracks, some with banked tracks. As leagues multiplied, skaters formed associations to promote the sport, develop new leagues, organize competitions, and standardize rules.
Sport, like society, has always been patriarchal and patronizing towards women. Roller derby is unique in this regard, as is the fact that it is a full contact team sport, every bit as hard-hitting as rugby or American football, yet played by women.
The equality does not stop there. Starting with the Texas Rollergirls , these new leagues formed as businesses run by the athletes themselves. The flat track version of the sport spread like wildfire in subsequent years, as the ability to mark track boundaries on a skating rink floor or other venues, rather than building and storing a large banked track, made it possible to play the game just about anywhere.
By , there were more than flat track roller derby leagues worldwide. Please visit Wikipedia for a more detailed version of the early history of roller derby. Site by Spenlen Media.
Select a business structure. Create Bylaws and a policy manual. Talk to existing leagues and review derby forums for tips and ideas on governance structures. Some policies to consider: Practice attendance Leadership positions and terms Code of conduct Non-compete agreements Probationary period for new skaters Grievance and conflict resolution Dues Primary health insurance requirements Depending on your location, you may need to arrange insurance for your league and skaters that provides liability and supplemental injury coverage for roller derby activities.
Refer to the requirements and regulations in your country. Start scrimmaging! Starting to play roller derby is the most important thing to getting your league under way.
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