Swedish Mens Roller Derby

Photo by Sarah Ekstrand

Photo by Sarah Ekstrand

Wow, it really has been a long time since I wrote here. I just have been so busy, that I have't really had time to write about rollerderby.
School, work and rollerderby has taken up my time, and the usual, having feelings and all that... I guess I am human, whatever that means. Oh, well... back to rollerderby...
This weekend we had the third practice with Team Sweden, the mens version... and they really are coming together nicely. Oh, maybe I forgot to mention that, I am one of the coaches of Team Sweden, the mens team. It is really nice to be just coaching a team, and not be playing at all, even if I sometimes just wanna jump in and play, because I always love to play.

But Friday night I took the train down to Gothenburg and Saturday morning started with a photosession, we all know how importatnt it is with taking the headshots... Oh well, I guess it is a little faster with the guys. I don't tink it is because they care less about their apperance, it is rather htat they do't have to fix their makeup... I offered to braid beards and hair... no one took me up on that...

After that we just practices, talked, practices and talked... It was a really good day, te guys take feedback really well, and they also keep on trying new things. But htey did look really exhausted in the end of the day. No wonder, they were inside the venue from 9 am til 5pm... except from when we let them out for the group photo. I am really excited to go to Calgary with them this summer to see what we can do! And I also get to see a bunch of my friends from allover the world again.... I am still thinking about a good outfit... for the bench... I might be a little wilder than the other coach... she did not seem psyked about wearing Bikinis and representing the Swedish bikini team... actuelly I never brought that up, I thought it might just be too much... actually too cold... I didnt even like the idea myself...

And on Sunday htey went up to play a mixed team called the Nutcrackers... and they WON big time! I am really proud of them. I couldn't be there because I had to go back to Stockholm on Saturday night and run leauge practice for Stockholm. But In a few weeks I will be going with them to Finaland when they are playing Team Finland in Helsinki. There are promises (or threats) about saunas... I am excited about it.. .as I always am! Well, coaching more than the sauna... and yes, if we happen not win the game,we have to win the sauna... so that is the motivation to win... trying to win sauna against Finns, are like trying to tell a five year old to give their little sister ALL their candy... yikes!

Oh, and the mens team has a pretty epic new logo this year, its a hipster viking. I like it, more than the previous polarbear, since Sweden don't have polarbears... Norway does... we just got hella lot of moose...