Swede Hurt rambles

Towards Malmööööö and Tour de Force

2012-02-10T12:19:00.000+01:00

So I'm filling my car up with Loony, Kix, Amy and Only and heading towards Malmö this weekend, ahhh... it's gonna be so much fun! CCR's A-team are gonna be beating up on Paris, it's their first A-team game since me and Loony moved, so we will not be missing that! Not at all, it will be stellar! I think it's gonna be a great bout to watch!
Before that Gothenburg will bout for the first time ever against the more seasoned CCR's B-team, and me an Loony have promised to help Gothenburg on their bench. It will be really awesome and fun, to see all the growing talent of derby in this northern part of the world. I am so EXCITED!

I am also sooooo excited to see all the girls in Crime City too, I miss them soo much, especially all the girls that played on Team Sweden... oh oh oh... and Titty from Stuttgart will be coming too... it's gonna be a blast! And I also heart Amelia Scareheart from Paris, so it will be SUCH a blast and amazingness to get to see all those lovley people!

Current Swedish Roller Derby

2012-02-08T15:37:00.002+01:00

So the past year there been an explosion in Rollerderby leauges in Sweden and also the first National Swedish team was created and went all the way to Toronto to bout.... So I decided to make it easier for you if you were looking for where to start with rollerderby in Sweden. And I appologize if not all the leauges are here, please let me know if I missed someone and I will make sure that they will go up too...
I'll start from the north, and go south:

Slaughter Daughter Roller Derby - Luleå
Ume Radical Rollers - Umeå
Sundsvalls Demolition Rollers - Sundsvall
Uppsala Roller Derby - Uppsala
Black River Rebels - Västerås
Stockholm Roller Derby - Stockholm
Royal Swedish Roller Derby - Stockholm
Tinderstix City Slammers Roller Derby - Jönköping
Gothenburg Rollerderby - Gothenburg
Helltown Hellcats - Helsingborg
Visby Valkyries - Visby
Crime City Rollers - Malmö

Team Sweden Roller Derby - Swedens finest...

I am excited to see that Rollerderby is growing past what I ever thought was possible - Rollerderby been my love for the past four years, and now when hitting my fifth season... I am excited... I am happy... even if there are days I feel really really burnt out! It is all worth it!

I'm selling the services of my girlfriend....

2012-02-07T15:23:00.001+01:00

Loony wearing the tights, hotpants, armband and helmet panty she made...

My girlfriend is extreamly talented, she is a great derby player, she is smart, funny, athletic a little crazy, and amazing performer and so on... but then there is also her talent for sewing... she makes really cool tights! AND she can make helmet panties - both for practice and for bouting. She made the bouting panties for Team Sweden, she also made our leggings and hotpants AND our armbands.

I love those armbands - with my number on - since I'm sick of forgetting my pen, end up having black marks allover my light shirts and so on... scrimmage/bout armbands with your number on are fab! And the reff will never have to send you to the box because your number sweated away...

So this is a big add for ordering those amazing and handy things from Loony.... she just got a new sewing maschine...

Nosebleed and more practice...

2012-02-07T11:21:00.004+01:00

We were fearing that it would be -14 degrees outside yesterday and that it would put the indoor temperature to way below the 0. But we were "lucky" and it was only a modest -7 or something, so it was practice as usual. Loony was leading practice and we did the usual Black Widdow, and a bunch of partner exercises and ended it with some off-skate and partner streching.... Mondays are our practice for everyone that has passed minimumskills. It is awesome to see that lots of our new skaters are improving so much for each practice... We have three bouts coming up the next two months - first is two A-team boutsStuttgart in two weeks, and then London Roller Girls B-team and least but not last Gothenburg going up against our B-team. It's all going to be EXCITING!!!

I had the pleasure to get one of our skaters wristguards in my face - resulting in a nosebleed.... quite painful... first nosebleed I have ever gotten in rollerderby. I laid down next to the tires and almost cried a little while the blood was dripping onto the rubbercovered black floor... yeah... HOT... I guess that is impressive - after four years in rollerderby I have never gotten a nosebleed until yesterday. Today nose is tender and it is a little hard to breath through it today, but it will not kill me... (I hope)

Ice-skating - the time is now

2012-02-05T13:25:00.001+01:00

The derby non-derby life and food

2012-02-05T13:23:00.001+01:00

So yesterday me and loony went over to Jazz and Toxic place to have dinner with Hell, Husse and Husses girlfriend Enoc. I have been friends with Husse and Jazz waaaay before derby, and I really enjoy to hang out with both of them outside of skating. One of our freshies came by later in the evening and was really supriesed that me and Husse have known each other for over 13 years...
Jazz is totally amazing at cooking, she made us all halloumi burgers, with homemade salsa and guacamole. Jazz is what we like to call a ''kocksvin'' and very particular about cooking, and I'm NOT gonna complain, because everytime we go over for dinner, we leave happy.

I do love cooking, but my foods are more comfortfoods, soups and stews, me and Loony have started to to start to pack lunch bags for work too. Every week we get a box of ecological produce delivered to our appartment - and it tends to last us all week... it is aaaamazing!

Indoor practice

2012-02-04T09:21:00.001+01:00

Today is the day - we have practice INDOORS... I don't need long-johns and a down-vest on... Almost feels weird...
It's scrimmage, and this time we chose to only have it open for the girls that passed minimumskills before december, so the girls that are newer had a chance to NSO.
I think it is superimportant to watch and NSO some scrimmage before you get to throw yourself 100% into it.

My carpet is a derby track...

2012-02-03T22:49:00.000+01:00

Fun with the team on a Friday night... snacking and playing with hearts and bearings on the carpet is the best fun you can have.

Rollerderby and life

2012-02-03T14:32:00.002+01:00

A year ago I came home to Copenhagen from EROC and I was nervous and excited, because I had just experianced European Rollerderby for the first time, and I was excited to do so many things.

I did a lot the past year, and I had fun doing it, but at one point I realized that everythign felt like an obligation, things that I HAD to do rather than things I wanted to do. And I think the worst was that people expected me to do things, with no room for error. I am a human - I am full of errors, but trust me, I really try my best to do my best.

In some aspects I really miss skating in US, I miss having a coach, someone that pushes me, I miss having people that tell me I'm awesome when I have a bad day and that randomly buy me ice-cream when I feel like everything is shit. I also realized that because I was stressed and sad I made life hard for the people closest to me.

I expect lots from myself and that is probably why I expect so much from others, rollerderby is supposed to be fun, it is fun, it is freaking amazing. I love the derby that I have been a part of, that we become more healthy and driven for each year. That we play derby for the sport of it, I think it is OK to go into a game with the mindset that we wanna win and to be willing to work for it.

There is a place for everyone in derby, but we have to accept that we are different, there need to be room for the ones that just wanna come once or twice a week and just play a little, but it also have to be room for the ones that wanna come four times a week and spend extra time on off-sakte and strategy sessions...

Another day in the ice-box...

2012-02-02T14:02:00.001+01:00

At next practices we will do a relay kicking balls... (no pun intended)

Wednesday practices is our ''everyone practice'' day and yesterday it was mine and Twisteds turn to run this practice. We started off with a shortened down version of ''Black Widdow'' (starting at 14 laps) it seems to be our current warm-up of choice. Yesterday was only around 4 degrees Celsius in our practice space - so it's all about keeping warm and getting the muscles going. We could see our breath... I also like that we do some core and general strenght exercises, since we don't have much dedicated off-skate practices.

Then we continued with an excercise that we picked up when we skated with TORD in Toronto - 10 exercises in 10 minutes. It is simple - we all do an exersice for 1minute and then directly change into another, for a total of 10 minutes. Good things to throw in are; skating on one foot, big slaloms, transitions, skating backwards, jumping from foot to foot... ect ...ect... just exercises where you can challange yourself on your own level.
The challange with everyone practices are to find drills that everyone will find challanging without disencourage the less skilled girls and not to make it too basic for the advanced girls.

Later on we did some matching steps, both side by side, and following each other, yesterday we only did it two and two, but one day I hope we can skate a whole row of people on step, it's fun, makes me remember when Deadly Aim used to run practice. It sounds really cool to have a whole row of girls skating on step. We also did ''shopping carts'' and ''truck'n'trailer'', also an old classical drill that seem to be a standard in every leauges practice protocol, it is a good endurance drill, and I like the competative moment to it, if you want it to have.

I really like running practice - adn I think everyone felt accomplished afterwards - of course there is always room for improvement both from the coaching and from the sakters, but I guess that is what we live for.

Fisti Cuffs - a derby person I heart

2012-02-02T11:01:00.002+01:00

Photo by Nicolas Charest and stolen from facebook

Fisit Cuffs is a Gotham Girl, a Manhattan Mayhem skater and also on Team USA, she is a VERY impressive and amazing person. She is a person I miss sooo much.... and she also has a really cool company together with Beatrix Slaughter called Lock and Spoon... they make amazing jewlery... Fisti gave me a ring that she mase, and I always wear it... it is really simple but oh so pretty!

So I moved to New York because Bonnie and OMG talked me into it (and all those other reasons), and I was superduper lonly and lost (and excited and nervous), and I didn't know anyone except from Bonnie and OMG -and they both had busy lives and still did an amazing job of being my derbymothers (there will be a blog about them coming up too).

I don't know why me and Fisti Cuffs became such good friends, maybe because we shared the equal lack of co-ordination while off-saktes, maybe because we both were tall (I am taller), maybe because we both are kind of goofy I really don't know. I don't really even know when we just became friends, but somewhere along the way in New York she became my captain, both on the Allstars and on Mayhem and she was always an inspiration but also a friend.

We are VERY serious people

Fisti has done derby longer than any person I know - she started in Arizona and then moved onto New York, and her style of playing is just lazy but with urgency. She always tend to be right where she needs to be, and she knows that when she has to go for the big hit, she has failed blocking, I admire Fisti Cuffs very much. She is a VERY smart and accomplished player and I love watching her play and I love playing with her.

it was the look of 2010

Fisti LOVES vintage shops, art and sparkly things, it very much distracts her. She took me to Trash beach (she likes to refere to it as Treasure Beach, and it is an old landfill in Brooklyn that now is leaking into the ocean) where we got a tan and coca-cola bottles from teh 50's. Fisti also discovered the punching games and I have gotten many bruises from her pracitcing it.... and also trying to save her from playing it with 250-pund muscular guys a week before Championships... and she will dress up and be silly.. I am scared of letting her cut my hair... I will admit that!

This is Fisitis way of showing love before a jam starts

Fisti and I worked really well on track, and she was always a person that I would feel confident playing with, oh oh oh, and we equally hated to jam.. he he he... Fisti will arrive late to everything if there is a pondshop or something cute on the way, she is easier distracted than me (and that says A LOT)... and her boyfriend is my derby husband... and I love him too... Those two have made my day so many times I cannot even count on my fingers. Justin is probably the most patient person in the world... having to collect me and Fisti from wherever our heads have happened to end up...

I need to go to New York and visit soon... or even better... FISTI come here and bring Justin with you!!

Friends moving to Stockholm... Welcome Amly

2012-01-31T10:35:00.001+01:00

Two of mine and Loonys dear friends from Kallio (Helsinki, Finland) just moved to Stockholm, and I am so excited about that, I love those two girls, both on and off the track. We are sorry Kallio that we are stealing them, but we promise we will do our best to make them feel at home... And we also promise we will make sure they get to take a trip on the ''knull-båt'' once in a while to visit you!

Welcome to Stockholm!

Only and PolygAmy Winehouse!

Or should we just call you Amly?

I hope you guys will be happy here in the capital of Sweden and I hope you will come skate with Stockholm Rollerderby. But also have yummy dinners with me and Loony and watch bad movied and I can practice my non-existing Finish (I am totally willing to learn). I know it is superhard to move to a new city and change leauges, it's heartbreaking, and I hope we can make you feel at home here, both the derby part - but also the non-derby!

This is how me and Amy know each other.... She is ripping my head off and I am trying to hit her in the chest... Amazing friendship...

Greetings from the icebox...

2012-01-30T23:37:00.002+01:00

Me and the almost wife

I really am skating in all this - and I am still a little cold... but you know it's nothing a 2 minute full sprint can't take care of... it was acctually fun, I have felt a lack of urgency in lots of the Stockholm skaters, and today I made them all skate as many laps as they could for 2 minutes. I think most of the girls had fun doing it... and then I wanna do it again in a few weeks... but until then we are gonna work on our sprints a little more, and hopefully everyone will improve...

Todays practice was a mixed bag of blocking, jamming, full sprints and skating backwards and stopping while going backwards...

It was fun to lead practice with Loony - it's been a while since we did that together... hopefully we get to do it again!

Time to go to practice... in the icebox

2012-01-30T16:52:00.002+01:00

Team ''Haaaaappy Donuts''

Today me and Loony are leading practice in the ice-box that I just named our hall... We just got back from EROC late yesterday... and it was AWESOME to get to scrimmage in a heated hall... even if the floor was sliiiipery, but I got to skate a few jams with Heavy Rotation, who is one of my favorite Berlin skaters, so that was good. Actually her and Shevil are my favorite two Berlin people, and me and Loony always end up staying with them, I also got to share the white team with Team Scotland skater Crazylegs, and tyhat was also fun... I bought a pair of new ugly leggings in Berlin... I always do! And I think I will wear them tonight as my third layer in the ''icebox''.
I will later write a blog about EROC - but right now I have to run home!

Ok, that's it - I wanna move to London

2012-01-30T09:36:00.001+01:00

There are a few reasons why I would consider moving to London....
1. They play the most competative rollerderby in Europe.
2. Raw Heidi is funny
3. They are full WFTDA-members
4. Raw Heidi i funny
5. They wear pink.... (maybe not a good reason) or Liv or Die is a great editor
6. Raw Heidi is funny
7. People in London speak funny (Like Heidi)
8. Raw Heidi is funny
9. I had fun when I practiced with London Rollergirls
10. Raw Heidi is funny

But NO - I bet that Kix would alsmost be as funny if we taped her... so I'm all about Stockholm... because Stockholm is freaking amazing!

Training in an ice-box...

2012-01-26T09:46:00.001+01:00

So as I said yesterday, I been sick - and I'm chomping down antibiotics - but I still decided to come to practice yesterday. I took it really chill, and I'm telling you - the place we practice is really CHILLY... brrrr... brrrr.... and the floor is covered by a thin layer of rubber. This rubber tend to turn into some sort of dust - so my skates are covered in this black rubber dust after each practice. Makes me wonder if our lungs look the same on the inside as our skates on the underside.

Sometime it's really dishearteing to practice at the place we do, it is expensive, cold and we have to few hours and to many different skill levels and I feel like we are going nowhere.
But then I think about Gotham, that they for a while had to practice under the a bridge in Bronx (not that I was there for that) and now lots of years later they are the best in WFTDA, and that gives me hope. It is worth to keep on going, because I know there are lots of us that are motivated and want it, and one day the ''Skatehall fairy'' will come to us and say ''Stockholm Rollerderby - we have lots and lots of practices in this amazing hall... knock yourself out''

Beggers can't be choosers, but I am for sure hoping for a better place to skate, but you know what - at least we have a track and we HAVE practices. It be much worse if we ahd nowhere at all to be :-D

Over and out... and back to work!

Refusing to be sick - usually means even more sick

2012-01-25T15:48:00.001+01:00

I have not been feeling well for quite a while, but there has just been to many things to do, so I just have ignored it, I usually do...
I totally hate being sick - but after a month of feeling like shit I finally broke down... well to be honest, my dad actually got me a doctors appointment last Saturday... and yes... It was bronchitos and I got antibiotics.

I randomly started nosebleeding during the Stockholm Boot Camp I was coaching, and I probably should have slowed down a little... so now I'm slowed down a little bit... So doctor said NO training for at least 4-5 days. I was going to Tallin on Monday anyway and would have missed Monday practice anyway, but I feel much better today, so I'm gonna join practice, but take it easy, really easy.

And tomorrow I'll going toBerlin to attend EROC - me and Maloony, we are two of the six (4 players and 2 referees) people going to EROC to represent Stockholm Rollerderby, and I am really excited about it. It is going to be really nice to go somewhere and not be in charge and just chill and listen to other people.

I really love Berlin - and once again we will stay with Shevil and Rotation - two of my favorite derby people in Germany (yes, they will be features in Derby Perople I heart later on). They have the most awesome place in Friedrichschein, and I love haning out with them. If my German was better and I had a job, I would move to Berlin in a heartbeat. Instead I try to go there quite often, I think I went to Berlin about five times alst year, it was closer from Malmö, it only took six hours on a bus... perfect overnight trip.

Keep your helmet shiny!

2012-01-22T13:49:00.001+01:00

So I just got the best present from Loony... it's a late birthday or christmas gift... either way, it is aaamazing!
So as you know, we travel ALOT - and most of the time out helmets are hanging on the outside of our bags, because the bag is packed with derby awesomeness... and the poor little helmets get banged up...
So a few times when we have been traveling we have used our helmet panties for protection - but ya know, we wanna keep both our bouting panties and out helmets in mint condition... So we have been talking about maybe making travel panties - we talking about Maloony making them... and TODAY... I got mine... she even WROTE my name on it.. .and my number... It is soooo freaking AMAZING... Ah, I will look so cool going to EROC next weekend! Thanks Loony, best present ever!!

That's my name

And that is my number and my coffee

Thanks Loony, best present EVER... about as great as the Pink Flamingo I got for my 30th Birthday!

''Everyone'' practice

2012-01-19T10:09:00.001+01:00

So we are now at the point in the season where we no longer have fresh-meat practices, since we have too few girls that has not passed minimum skills - so we made Wednesdays into ''Everyone'' practices where all skaters are welcome, no matter level. We focus those practices on skill and basic training, since everyone really can improve. We all need to work on our agility, jumping, lifting our feet, stop, start, skate backwards, on one foot, basic hitting, weaving, communicating and so on... I really try to design those practices so everyone can push themselves on the level they are at - I've said this and I'll say it again... you should be falling when you try new things, then you know you are pushing yourself. It is hillerious and sometimes emabarassing when I show a drill, and I fall on my ass... but at the same time, it happens, and if you fall in practice and learn how not too.. then you win...

Since the hall we practice is so cold - we have started practice with the ''Black Widow'' the past two weeks... and it really warms everyone up, but also gives us all a chance to work on our cross-overs in both directions and throw some strenght exersices in. It is good to be back to practice after the looong Christmas break, and to start really to work with my new team.

Yesterday I was supposed to coach together with Twisted, we always try to have two people coaching, in that way we always have an extra person till fill in when drill come up short, and also four eyes are better than two. But Twisted was sick, like everyone else, so Husse ended up coaching with me instead, and that was fun.

I'm finally feeling like I am a part of Stockholm Rollerderby, it is extreamly hard to change leauges, and I still miss Crime City lots...

Learn to jump with Kamikaze Kitten... just do it

2012-01-17T09:28:00.002+01:00

Picture stolen from Kami's blog, check it out for more

So I have a few European favorite skaters, and a few of them just happen to skate for London Roller Girls, they are atheltic and hardworking, their A-team is way beyond all other European teams, and they got 5th at Eastern Regionals this year. Those girls are hardcore... Kamikaze Kitten is one of them, she is hard to miss even if she is about as tall as a smurf (no offence, apperently I think everyone are short), but her skating got tons of personality, she got blond dreads sticking out of her helmet and she is extreamly fit. She hits like a ton of bricks and she is an amazing jammer, jumping allover the track. (this is turning into a derby people I heart... )

The whole point of this blogg was to say that Kamikaze Kitten has a blogg - and right now she is doing a series on jumping for derby... and it is really awesome! Read it! you can find it right HERE!

How to become a roller derby girl...

2012-01-16T09:22:00.000+01:00

Yes, I am the one in black with red legs... second week as fresh meat

So we have finally decided on a new date to get new girls into Stockholm Rollerderby!
On Monday the 19th March we welcome everyone that want to try rollerderby and have the ambition to become a skater for Stockholm Roller Derby to come and try rollerderby in our practice space. There is more info on it on Facebook - but there will also be more info popping up at our website. There will be some skates and gear to borrow at the try-outs.

You really don't really have to be able to skate, we can teach you that, but you have to be willing to take a few falls and willing to learn. Of course it is a plus if you know how to skate, and I encourage everyone that want to try-out to get their own gear and find a parking garage and start practicing now... Because the faster you learn how to skate - the faster we can teach you to play derby.

I had never roller-skated when I started derby - but I went and practiced just skating three times a week right before I joined Jet City Roller Girls, because being able to skate forward and to stop is so important.

So here are my tips for you who want to start derby, but is waiting for try-outs:

1. Get your own skates, skates don't have to be superfancy - but seriously, get a pair of rollerskates that you will be able to play derby with Riedell R3's and Sure Grip Rebels are both skates that will take you through the first year, maybe a little longer... I prefer R3's - that is what I started in, they are a little more narrow than the Rebels and mine have lasted forever. When I got new skates I kept my R3's for outdoor skating, and then Kix DeVille from Stockholm used them for her Fresh Meat period, and now a Malmo skater is using them for her fresh meat period.

2. Get your own gear, and spend some money on kneepads, when you start derby you will be spending lots of time falling, especially on your knees. So get big padded kneepads for the first year, if you later on decide to go with less padded kneepads, I don't care. But for the first year - get something fluffy to protect those knees. Other gear you kneed for derby is: elbowpads, wristguards, helmet and mouthguard. Most derbyshops offer some sort of rookiepackage - a deal where you can get the skates and pads for a good deal - uppgrade the kneepads...

3. Now you can start skating... I recommend to find a parking garage, during the less busy hours (if you live in a country where there is snow/rain and no skating rinks) and just get used to being on skates. If it's summer, just go outdoors on smooth asphalt... There are some instructional videos online of different quality that will help you with things like crossovers and stops... those are probably hte two first things you want to learn after you just just have learnd to propel yourself forward. Think about that you really want to bend your KNEES to find balance, NOT your torso. And learning to fall does not mean that you throw yourself on your knees, a friend of mine that skates in US - likes to call it controlled lowerings. Derby is alot about control - controlling your body on skates...

4. Just wear your skates at home, one of the hardest things when you learn to sakte is to feel comfortble on your skates, and to find the balance. So why not just put those skates on when you are cleaning your apartment, I promise it makes it lots and lots of more fun! When I started I used to walk stairs in my apartment building, this might be a little on the dangerous side, and I think my neighbours might have feared for my life a few times. But bottom line is - that the more you wear your skates, the more you will get used to it and you will become more balanced...

5. Start working out - rollerderby is a fun sport and sometimes you forget that it is a demanding sport -and the more fit you are when you start - the faster you will learn, but also you are more likley not to get injured... I cannot say that I love off-skate, but I know it is a really important part of roller-derby - it will make me last longer as derby-player.

6. Find other girls that want to start rollerderby - and start practicing together in that garage, basement or park...

7. You are always welcome to ask me questions if you don't know anyone that does derby, I will try to do my best to help out! Or if YOU have any tips... please let me know and I will share it with the rest of the world!

Oh, and I also want to tip you all of about this blogg Fresh Meat Chronicles - it's a few Gothenburg fresh meat girls that been bloggin about their journey of learning to play derby.

Ok, I am off to work now...

My Birthday Party

2012-01-15T19:25:00.002+01:00

So yes, I had one of those, ''a birthday party''... and it was really nice and I love the awesome mix of friends I have. I got awesome birthday presents - and we drank lots of wine - and a cake was made and it tasted aaaaamazing... yum yum....
And then we played 'truth or dare' until everyone either left or fallen asleep...

Mustasches on Jamaica...

2012-01-13T10:54:00.000+01:00

Twisted, me, Loony and Hyper photo by Fluke

Wile. E Peyote - a derby person I heart

2012-01-12T12:01:00.002+01:00

I sort of don't really know when I met Wile first, she was one of the owners of Fast Girls Skates, and I'm not sure if it was her or Morty who fitted me for my first ''real'' skates. But however - I met Wile a whole bunch of times, but it wasn't until when I started to work around the corner from Fast Girls and later tried out for Rat City that I really got to know her. When I got on Rat City I ended up on the Sockit Wenches that was Wiles hometeam - and later on I also became an All Star - and we went to Western Regionals 2009 in Denver.

Rat City Game Face (Wile, Braxley, Drea and Mater)

Wile is one of the tinest people I have ever met - she just happen to think she is twice her size and she is a hot head, she is a little like Stich, in Stich and Lilo. Once she even found a Stich kid-costume for Halloween - it was aaaamazing... She also LOVES great food - and her husband makes fantastic food. The two of them is one of the main reasons I quit being a vegetarian and started to eat meat. I promise, the pulled pork is totally worth it!
Wile and I used to go for really long outdoor skates, and I really miss this - I would come by Fast Girls and she would whine about something and then we would drive somewhere far or close and then skate, skate, skate and chat, chat, chat... I mostly remember many sunny days on skates, and then we would go for ice-cream (or vegan donuts) or to her house and chill in her hot-tub. I even used to have my bikini waiting for me at her house, I would not be suprised if it's still there... Ha ha ha... Ahwww, I really miss Wile, she is really an amazing friend, she might bark, but she doesn't really ever bite, and she gets tipsy on a glass of wine, and the more I think of her right now, the more I miss her!

At Rat City we also worked interleauge together, and as mentioned we also skated lots and lots together, we equally hated jamming and loved blocking - I might have had a little more patience for the jamming than she did - but she was (and still probably is) at jamming.
Together we did lots of fun things, like me whipping her between my legs and other just silly derby show-off things.
A few times we even went skiiing together. (well, I snowboarded and she skiied) and she seriously is HILLERIOUS! Oh - she also drives a VERY awesome car!
At the World Cup I did not get to hang out with her enough, since she was busy skating for Ireland - and I was busy skating for Sweden...
Oh, and her and Morty are the owners of Fast Girls Skates, the first Brick and Mortar rollerderby store in the world, how cool is that! I'd say that is VERY cool - and they know their stuff really well, when I lived in Seattle I spent many hours there!

My new sport - ice-derby?

2012-01-12T10:14:00.000+01:00

It is not really like this...

Damn, so after a month of not skating in the Go Cart hall, Stockholm Rollerderby is back for bi-weekly practices there. And no kidding - this place is freaking cold. Monday was so freaking cold we had to end practice early - but it was also about -5 C outside. Yesterday practice was better, and it was a few plus degrees outside, plus I think we came better prepared/dressed. I surrently skate in two pair of leggings, a long-sleave Helly Hansen, a hoodie, a short-sleave hoodie and a down vest... It probably looks really funny and colorful - but at least I'm not freazing to death... hopefully it will get warmer outside soon. I KNOW, I do wish for snow - but at the same time I wanna skate... ah, those dilemmas!

The really bad part is that when it's this cold - it's hard for girls that have a slight cold to come and take it easy, because it is cold, and if you have a cold, you probably don't wanna get colder...

I must have an extra shoot out for our girls that JUST passed minimum skills, they are all looking really great and are super motivated. It is so much fun to skate with them, and they come to almost every practice. It is very evident that progression correlates to attendance. I remember when I started derby, I never missed a practice, and one time I overslept (I worked morningshifts, and slept in the afternoon) and missed a practice, and I called my coach and cried. Yeah, I was truly obsessed... (craaazy)

Well, this blog was just about nothing - and about that there is no bad weather - just bad clothing choices... For sure this is NOT fishnet weather, I would totally laught my head off if someone came to practice wearing fishnets in this weatehr. Offically CRAZY! Brrr... now I'm gonna go back to working.

No ice - even if it could be... almost

I need a kick in the ass...

2012-01-11T10:02:00.002+01:00

I am just like everyone else - I need to work out to feel good. And just skating is just enough, we have two onskate practices per week, and in avarage I run one of them, so that means I only have one onskate practice per week. And one onskate practice per week will not keep anyone fit, it doesn't even keep you at the level you are at... so I have to find an alternative solution.
AND trust me on this one friends, I am a very lazy person, if I got to decide I probably would just go out to fancu restuarants and have great meals and good wine, and then I'd go home and watch something on TV while cuddeling with my girlfriend...

And no, I don't think it is fun to go to the gym, I never have, I've done it for a long time, when I was snowboarding and then in between and also now during derby, but it just don't motivate me. I need something more high-energy, and I also need other people to motivate me.
STRD are trying to have an off-skate on Thursdays - but it just tend to be the same 3-6 people showing up to it, apprently running in the snow seem to be very low on the list of things to do among our skaters.
I am really considering becoming a member of Nordic Military Training, so I can do it once or twice every week. I think it might be really motivating, and it is extreamly fun for me to work out in groups and outdoor.

I also need to get better at eating, currently I run lot's and lots on sugar, especially on the afternoons, I LOVE candy - not chocolate - but little sour and salty candies... MmmMMMmmm... but I need to get better at eating, I miss my Herbalife shakes, they are yummy for breakfast, and I have run out. Krissy Krash would not be pleased with me... Currently my breakfast is a HUGE coffee with milk - and that my dear friends is NOT the best way of startign the day, we all know that!

I wanna look like I did a year ago and also feel like I did a year ago - full of energy and strong ... and skating once a week will not make it happen. I need more and more and more... and only I can decide waht I want to do with myself! Sometimes it's just hard to kick yourself - especially when you have a really comfortble couch and very goodlooking girlfriend and six more seasons of SuperNaturals to watch...

Me in January 2011 (in LA with Krissy Krash)

Kamikaze Kitten's blogg

2012-01-10T08:01:00.000+01:00

and picture is shamelessly stolen from her blogg

One of my favorite skaters from London Roller Girls has a blogg - Kamikaze Kitten... check it out - she talks about the importance of cross-training... you see - it is not only me!

My Birthday! (Today)

2012-01-10T07:31:00.001+01:00

Please send this girl or the presents here:

Lina G Berglöf
Frejgatan 51
113 49 Stockholm
Sweden

I count pretty postcards as presents....

;-)

Loony woke me up this morning with coffe in bed, and a present! She had gotten me an E-BOOK! Yes, it was EXACTLY what I wanted! Now I'm just gonna figure out how it works and head to the libary... (online)

Stockholm Rollerderby Bootcamp

2012-01-09T10:08:00.002+01:00

Kix and MadFish getting ready to skate

So as I mentioned in the last entry, we had a bootcamp here in Stockholm, it was during the Stockholm Winter Games, that is a big sports exhibition in Älvsjö, we were given a whole lot of space, so we were able to have two tracks, one regulation and one 90% and a little information/merch table. We had girls from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden and from about 17 different leauges. So it was super-exciting! It was the first larger boot-camp that I worked that I also got to lay down the timetable for. So with all the things in mind from the bootcamps I have worked the past year, I did my best to give everyone a variety of on-skate classes, but also some off-skate classes that are valuable for everyone.
We parted the girls into three different groups, Blue, Yellow and Red, and everyone got a ''wristband'' in the color of their group, to make it easy for us to indentify and for them to remember...
As most of you that reads my blog on a regular basis, you know that I think off-skate exercises are SUPER IMPORTANT for becoming a successful derby skater, so all levels got to have an off-skate session. For the girls that hadn't passed minimum-skills (rookie girls) we also let them do sock-derby (but with shoes on) as a part of their off-skate session. Sock-derby is, for you that doesn't know, a scrimmage in full-gear, but without skates... so instead of skating everyone is running. It is superfun! All regular derby rules apply, but we shortened the jams down to a minute.... me and Loony had a blast refereeing this!
The intermediate and advanced girls both got to scrimmage, an hour each day, and we made sure it was not the last thing of the camp, since it usually ends up in exhausted girls getting injured. And during the scrimmage all the referees that had their little referee camp got to practice calls and all what they do, so that worked out really well. We had invited Riff Reff up from Stuttgart to lead the referee camp - and we had referees of different experiance from allover attend, and from what I saw, they were having a great time!
We also had Fluke run an off-skate Rules class for the intermediate and rookie girls, since there are always lot's of questions about rules, and who is a better person to answer them than a referee? HyperNova was kind enough to come and go over the basics of gear, she is a little of a gearhead and always a good person to ask about different wheels, plates and boots.
Becky Lawless, Twisted T, Mad Maloony and me ran the onskate classes, and we did everything from crossovers to hitting and jammerline starts. Our last class the girls really look exhausted, but I guess that is a good sign, that they got lots and lots out of the classes and a work-out. Loony ended every day with a partner-strech that was amazing, since we all are very likely to forget to strech if noone makes us do it.
In the end we had three prizes (sponsored by SwedeVix) for three girls that just stood out a little extra, I do think that everyone worked so hard and did such a fantastic job, but sometime there just are girls that stand out, just a tiny bit more:
Best Attitude: Mrs Knuckles - Umeå
Hardest Worker: Obnoxious Li - Gothenburg
Most Improved: Cursed Nurse - Norway
Overall I must say that I loved the vibe of the weekend, everyone had such a great attitude and skated so hard and really listened, and I appreciate that.
I had a really great time putting on this bootcamp, and everyone else did too, so I hope we have the opportunity to do it again. And it felt really good to be able to send some of the girls from remote or really new leauges off with a whole set of new tools! I also wanna do a speacial shootout to Sleaze and Hell for being our event coordinators, making sure we had what we needed and a little extra... and of course to all the STRD skaters that volonteered. Oh, and then we had a GREAT afterparty... with dancing and all that jazz...
Amazingly fun everyone!

Stockholm Rollerderby Bootcamp Weekend

2012-01-08T13:18:00.005+01:00

This weekend we hosted and put on a bootcamp in Stockholm, during Stockholm Wintergames. It was superduperfun, lots of work with three different group skills... I made a really nice colorcoordinated scedual and Loony, Becky, Twisted and med coached on-skate classes and benchcoached while we had Hyper teach gear and Fluke rules... it was overall a really fun time... I will write more about it when I get back from lunch with my non-derby friend.

Jo Evil Eye - a derby person I heart

2012-01-05T13:41:00.003+01:00

So there are so many things to say about Evil Eye, but most of all she is a very calm and very fair person, she is also one of my favorite people to play derby with. She is one of those people that are silent but deadly, and she listens, listens and listens and then she acts, quick. Oh, and I also need to mention that once she tripped me so my knee got hurt - and it still hurts. I think she did it out of love!

When I came to Crime City she was not at all the most talented skater and derby did not come easy to her. But she wanted to learn and came to every practice, asked questions, worked hard and improved, and improved and improved. She might never be the hardest hitter or the fastest skater, but she is an amazing teamplayer that I would like to have her in my pack anyday, she makes the rest of the skaters look good, making her team look good. She is at the right place in the right time and I miss her, probably one of the best positional blcokers that we have in Sweden.
She sometimes drives me CRAZY, bceause she is so darn correct, she doesn't have a boyfriend or a girlfriend, she has partners, and if you wanna pick on her, tell her she is gay or straight. She is very humble most of the time, but her sense of humor takes a while to figure out, and the way she tells a joke is quite special. Oh, and she is also so darn POSITIVE all the time! (i like it)

She also listens to the name Musta Kissa and have a very special relation to ginger.... and I have a very funny video on her explaining it... but it is private. Oh, and it also took me forever to understand her number 925... 9 to 5... cleaver and I am not so fast at all counts...

My Birthday (it is not today)

2012-01-04T14:47:00.001+01:00

Since we don't really do Christmas gifts in the family, I always put all my hope to my Birthday... My Birthday is 10th of January - so only a week away from today... and I am already hoping for the singing in the morning and marängtårta in bed.

This year I want a few things for my Birthday: I want snow, I want new iceskates (or possibly that the ones I have get sharpened) I want new plates for my rollerskates, I want a bike, I want a hairdyer, I want a fancy dinner, I want a massage, I want a new blazer from Tiger or Acne... and I want a couch from IKEA and a coffee table, I want a helmet cover to travel with and new clothes... there are so many things I want...
But most of all I want great times with friends and little packages to open... I like little colorful things that I can put up everywhere in the apartment... I love pens... I love post-cards and rollerskate whatever... yeah... I want new roller-skates... who doesn't??

This year I'm having a little get-together under the theme ''Kalas'' I think I might just turn it into ''Traditional Lesbian'' the Friday after my birthday - last year we had a butch theme and it became very butch in our Copenhagen home...and that was HILLERIOUS and I made lentil soup and we had different little ''butch-offs''. Krazy Kris and Martattack from Copenhegen were there, Callavera and Smashed were visiting from Stockholm and Firebird, Ninja, Fisty, Fenix and Dusty came over from Malmö... Ninja turned into Roffe and made even Kris act and look like a little girl... Ahhh, I love parties with themes...

New Years in Dalarna 2011/2012

2012-01-02T10:51:00.000+01:00

Me and Loony partner skating

Me, Loony and five of our close friends (Husse, Jazz, Enoc, Amy and Only) went to Sågmyra, where my mother grew up, and celebrated New Years in my grandparents old house. It totally became another lesbian boot-camp - but this year we had no straight friend to harass... we missed Sarra and Kris from previous year!
We downloaded the 'Truth or Dare' app and went skiiing, snowboarding, ice-skating, cooked, chatted and just spent time together.
We were a little nervous there would be no snow there, and it was not as much snow as last year, but it was better than none at all, as it is in Stockholm right now.

Loony doing piruettes in the sunset

It got colder during the days we were there, and we even dared to skate on one of the local lakes (totally freaked me out for a bit) and we went for an amazingly beutiful walk in the sunset (sun sets arond 16.00).
We are currently trying to talk Enoc into starting derby, she is tall and blonde, so we think she might fit really well for the task...
A new addition to this years celebrating was putting make-up on each other, while the person putting the make up on was blindfolded... Oh, yeah - and a sauna... and a sauna and snow can never go wrong!

Jazz cooked us an AMAZING New Years dinner... it was nice and tasted amazzzing!

Jazz going for the best make-up job on me ever

Happy New 2012 to all of you!

Highlights of 2011 (in no particular order)

2011-12-28T11:22:00.001+01:00

I drank heaps of tasty not cheap beer

Just maybe some JägerBombs with Rocky Mountain

Crime City got a painted outdoor track

I coached at EROC

Loony and I moved to Malmö

Crime City starred in Looptroops music video

I coached at MayDay in Hell

Loony and I at Anarchy in UK working for DNN

I played some banked track with Legit

I had a butch birthday party

Made it into the News

Played the first bout in Sweden with CCR

Travelled and skated with Loony

Announced with Loony

Coached at Rally in the Valley

Went to Paris with Crime City

Celebrated Midsummer

Coached with Loony and Fisty in Rotterdam

Founded SwedeVix with Vix

Coached at SkateHeaven

Went to Windsor with Stockholm

Put on Nordic Light with SwedeVix

Coached Gothenburg Rollerderby

Me and Loony moved to Stockholm

Me and Loony coached and played with wonderful Team Sweden

I got MVP for Team Sweden

Went to Jamaica and ate noodles on room at Ritz-Carlton

Titty Twista - a derby person I heart

2011-12-27T16:32:00.002+01:00

I met Titty the first time really briefly at the German Championships and I got to see her skate, Loony had seen her skate before and talked very warmly about how great she was, and she for sure was.
I did not get to know to her until I went to Stuttgart to coach at Ralley in the Valley this summer. We coached together and I really got to know her. Oh, and for you who have never met her before - she skates for Stuttgat Valley Roller Girlz and is the Headcoach of Team Germany.

Titty is quite a personality - and I must admit that her German accent and very matter-of-fact personality might have scared me a little at first... but when you get past that she is really sweet and funny. (I am still scared of pissing her off). So when I started this project of writing about derby people I heart, I decided that I can do it however I want to, and for Titty I prepared a few questions that I really wanted to know, and also that I thought be to interest in general and sent off to her, and here are her answers:

Swede: Why is your name Titty Twista?
TT: Basically I love the Tarantino movie "From Dusk Till Dawn" and there is this club called Titty Twister. So this was the first thought like that this could be my name... Seeing it from the club perspective, I am well known for hitting clubs and loving the girls. Seeing it from the meaning of the words - well, I am a girl of many sides and you never know what will hit you on or off track. I am fast and I move quickly through the pack and hit and attack fast and effective and I can be a pain in the ass for the jammers - that is what people say. Also I love to touch boobs I am attracted to boobs and if you don't behave, I will twist your nipples. So I think that Titty-Twista seems to fit perfect!

Swede: How did you start derby?
TT: I heard rumor about derby even when I was in Uni still but just rumor and I didn't know any facts. I lived in Stuttgart before so I kinda knew what was going on there. Moving back I ended up rooming with some crazy people in this huge apartment and in 2007, my room mate basically told me more and more about derby and skating because she was friends with one of the founders of SVRG. As I was looking for something new anyways I was like "Yeah, lets get some skates and then skate in the park." But the I found out I had to get to know the one girl of SVRG which owened an online skate shop at that time and the only source for me to buy skates. After a while my rommate said that there is something called a "bout" taking place and so I grabbed the girl I wanted to go out on a date with and my roommate and went to this so called "bout". It was taking place at a club - kind of like this illegal fight club style. It was the first european bout ever - London Rockin Rollers vs. SVRG. And derby girls were smoking and drinking beer during the halftime... I was like OKAY, this is NOT the sport I am looking for.. way to brutal! BUT I needed the skates cause I loved skating ever since I can remember ... but it took another year to make the first move torwards one of the SVRG practices - and by August 2008 my roommate and me went to one of the practices all eager to order skates.. . but hey, why not learn how to REALLY skate on quads? Just ONE practice I thought - So I ended up practicing with them and never stopped... November 2008 first bout... and ever since I never left SVRG and the roller derby world!

Swede: How did you like being HeadCoach of Germany?

TT: Like? Love would be the word! I feel honored that I got voted on this important position. I totally knew that this is a huge responsibility and a long way to go. Many people put their trust in me, things went wrong and things went right and at the end I think I did a good job and we all had a blast in Canada. It was energy-sucking and thrilling at the same time. BUT this is something I won't never forget - the first time ever derby head coach for Team GErmany! Isn't THAT amazing? I can say yes, yes, yes! Regrets? Nope. And for this year I'll keep on doing it until we will have a board and a federation built up. There is more to come 2012 and mistakes to learn from and my mission is to grow closer together as team and as a training and managing board. We will have some more fun and even better derby! :-)

Swede: Who are the skaters you look up to?

TT: This is a hard one.... in particular, there are so so many excellent derby players all over the place. And World Cup showed how impressive it is to watch the Stars and Stripes and all this amazing players on these teams. In particular I loved to watch Bonnie Thunders, Psycho Babble and Joy Collision skate. Impressive! These are just a few names. Honestly, looking up to somebody is hard for me because if I look up to somebody I could be a bit frightened if I would meet them on track one day... and this shouldn't be the fact if I should give the best for my team, right? :-) And with this fast development of derby these days, tomorrow anybody could be better than the stars of today. So I prefer not to name somebody but to give my admiration to every derby skater who works hard, is focused, wants to spread the word of derby, is a real teamplayer and likes to understand the game - no matter if they are brilliant skaters or just about to start derby.

Swede:Where do you see derby in 5 years?

TT: Hopefully on a more improved level - but STILL from athletes for athletes. I can see that derby is getting more and more professional and I like it - but in my perfect derby future there should still be the derby I knew from the very start. A derby that has room for every girl who wants to do it. I hope in 5 years we have WFTDA become the main federation for derby and that all over the world each country got its own. That there are nationals in each country and region, championships and I wish that derby is an all accepetd sport and no longer searching for venues is the limiting factor. Instead of that, venues should be built for derby and other skating sports. Also I hope that the most important fact - the fun times and the afterparties - won't vanish. That we all remember where we came from and that we still see derby as the most fun team sport ever - no matter if the money factor and the professionalism grows. I want derby to be spread all over the world and maybe we have a chance to become olympic! YAY! :-D

Swede: Beer or Weinschorle?

TT: I would say BOTH... but with my sweet Swede, weinschorle... or Wine, Charlotte! :-D

Swede: What is your athletic background?

TT: Track and field is my athletic background. Started when I was 3 years old. First competition when I was at the age of 5. Never stopped doing it until early 20s. I used to be a track and field pro until a bad back injury made me quit during the first qualification round for the Junior European Championships in heptathlon. I was working out twice a day - everything was built around my athletic life (school, friends and relationships) - and I never regret it! It was a great and awesome experience and I met some of my dearest friends though that sport. There was a huge hole after quitting and I was searching for something new for years - a couple of years later, derby filled the hole just perfectly! :-D

Swede:What is the most important for you with derby?
TT: We play together, we win together, we lose together - we ARE team! It is one of the most intense team sports I know - physically and mentally! Here you can feel the real power of team - there can be outstanding players on the track, but if they don't work together - they will lose! And also getting to know ppl I actually would never get to know in real life. And this in combination with the fun and pleasure I feel - that IS the best I can get. I burn for derby - and sometimes I GET burnt.

Colt 45 - a derby person I heart

2011-12-27T05:27:00.001+01:00

Colt nowdays (photo shamelessly stolen from Facebook)

First of all I want to let you all know, that Colt has not always been Colt - she started her derby career under the name Debbie Derringer... but since her name was to close to some other derbygirl Debbie had to retire and she became her evil twinsister Colt 45 - for good and bad...

Colt is my derbywife, we met when we both were in the freshmeat training camp (called Bootycamp) of Jet City, we both made it on the leauge - she became a Pink Pistol and I became a Camaro Harem.
But already during bootycamp we realized we had the same sort of humor, we used to carpool all the way from Seattle up to Everett and bitch/gosship about everything from derby to who we thought be the next derbygirl to come out of the closet. We just connected on lots of different levels -and we always seemed to have fun together and we always seemed to find a reason to giggle - sometimes to others annoyance.
There is one photo of me and her in Jules photo-book - and it is of me flashing her and another Pink Pistol Skater... yepp... good times back in the day... Oh, and of course we took some pin-up photos in rollerskates... yepp... I am wearing fishnets...

Yes - we did it... we did it

We went to our first RollerCon together - and had a blast in matching outfits and got married on the parking lot with a whole bunch of other derbygirls... I left Jet City for Rat City and I really missed her and then we became neighbours for a hot moment... but Colt then moved to Austin and joined the Texas Rollergirls.
I visited her in Austin and skated, but we also drank tequila, sang karoke and looked lost while trying to fix her car that wouldn't start. Later on that year she broke her arm - and that was sad... breaking things is never good when you tend bars and play derby...

Wives to be

I moved onto Gotham and then to Sweden and Colt moved on to Sacred City and we haven't seen each other in waaaay to long, and that is kind of sad. She is a great skater and friend and wife, and I got to see her skate at Western Regionals via DNN, and it made me really proud thinking of how far both of us have come since that time we met at the Skate Deck in Everett.... and by the way - she is quite straight...

Me and Colt at Jet City try-outs

I really hope that she will come and visit me in Sweden one day, because I don't talk often enough with her, but I miss her!

Happy Christmas and Merry Holidays

2011-12-27T04:53:00.001+01:00

Last year snow covered the entire country of Sweden - this year there has been a serious lack of snow! I do NOT approve - and then we had a storm (that was named Dagmar) that did not bring snow but crazy winds that cut off electricity...

Except from that, Christmas was amazing - I celebrated with family - at lots of great food and got about zero Christmas gifts... well, very few since the adults in the family do not give each other presents (and for some crazy reason they classify me as an adult) and I have no children to give me presents.

Me and Mother went to Church Christmas Day morning, we always do it, it is a tradition me and Mother have had for years and year, and I really enjoy it.

And then I got sick, Loony been sick for about a week, so I guess it was my turn... yepp... gotten sick - and still a lack of snow. Not sure if I like this! But it just means it can only get better...

Alotta Riot - a derby person I heart

2011-12-23T17:18:00.004+01:00

I cannot swear I remember meeting Alotta first time, she is a Crime City skater, and when I cam to Crime City she had only been skating for a few months. My first real memory of her was when she took her minimum skills test in January 2011.
It was the first Minimum Skills test I ever administred, and me and Loony came up with a test where I combined how my previous leauges had done it and made it feel like it was a regular practice, with a sort of flow to it.
Alotta did not do spectacular, and we told her that she needed to work on her hitting and some other things (can't remember exactly what - there were many girls there) but what was so amazing was the development of her and Barfight the following weeks. Alotta and Barfight just bacame like they were glued to each other, and both me and Loony were - WOW...
Oh, and if you wonder why we sometimes call her Aloha Riot - it is because when we put her first boutshirt in to get printed - the printer got it all wrong - and her shirt spelled out 'ALOHA RIOT'.

But not Alotta being a very consistant and hardworking player, she later became Crime Citys headcoach after I left, and from what I heard and seen, do an amazing job.

Alotta is an amazing blocker, (and sometimes she should jam) I trust her on the track and so does her team-mates. But it is not only her skating that makes me admire her, it is how she always comes to practice, despite the fact that she has a small kid and a husband that works out of the contry week at the time.

She is one of the most positve people I have ever met, and she always have patience to listen to people, and she is smart and often understand what people need. She is a very good friend, and very warm, smart and loving despite her edgy looks. She is not possitive in that 'smileyIlovetheworldandyouallshouldloveitto' kind of way, she is positive in the way that makes you wanna keep going, because she motivates you!

I think one of my favorite things were before one of our bouts, I was getting interviewed, and the reporter looked around, and was all ''I wanna talk to her'' and pointed towards Alotta. And in the interview Alotta happily announced that she started derby becuase she wanted to get rid of the babybump she got after being pregnant and the first thing you had to learn in derby was to fall. The reporter almost told her... ''c'mon say something tought'' - but that is Alotta - she is just cool without having to talk her game up! I'll go on track with her anyday - and I am sad that I am not in the same leauge as her anymore, and they are very lucky to have her.

And I must say she has done very well for her first year in derby....

Mad Maloony, a derby person I heart

2011-12-23T01:38:00.003+01:00

Well, we all know Mad Maloony is my long-time girlfriend and she also plays derby, that is how we met, because of derby. I know, we are cute, we here that a lot, except from when we fight, then we might be a little scary. But this is not a post about my girlfriend, it is about the derbyplayer that I love to have on my team. It just would not be good for our relationship to be on opposite teams.

Loony started to skate when she was just a wee little kiddie, she tells you all about it that in her profile on the Team Sweden webpage. She has also been the Danish Champion in artistic rollerskating, so yeah, she is a VERY accomplished skater, and may I say that I feel very clumpsy skating with her at times. I think she goes faster backwards than forward and damn, the girl is fast.

Well, she started derby with Copenhagen Rollerderby, and then she met me and I forced her to come visit me in NYC and skate with me in Gotham for a month and when I moved back to Europe we moved in together and ended up leading CCR's A-team into an undefeted season. I love coaching with her, she is an amazing coach - and we do well together - and I love love love skating, bouting and coaching with Loony. She is an amazing blocker and her jamming is... ehm... fantastic!
I LOVE to watch her jam - she has the biggest smile EVER when she breaks out of the pack and gets lead-jammer. Very charismatic... my little showpony!

She got MVP for Nordic Light and she also got MVP for when we played Royal Windsor and she played on Team Sweden in Totonto. Loony loves to watch derby fototage and get really nerdy with it, I sort of wanna go to sleep after watching two-three bouts - she will watch all night long. She is also a very good team-mate and she loves to dance and I think she always wins the afterparties....

Oh, I love this girl - she is AMAZING and she is a VERY talented derbyplayer, people tend to forget that she has not been playing derby for that long, when I met her a year and a half ago, she had only been playing for about nine months.

People I love and admire in derby

2011-12-23T00:04:00.001+01:00

I have met MANY people in derby, people I love and admire, people that annoy the shit out of me and I still love and respect, and people that scare the shit out of me, and all of those people have meant something to me in different ways. It might have been a team, another skater, a coach a referee, yeah someone in derby that made me smile, giggle or just work harder.

Maloony, Chagin'Tina and Alotta Riot

I'm thinking about a few people I want to mention and first I thought I'd write about a person a day, and then I thought I should interview them. And then I just thought I'd do whatever I felt like when I decided to write about them... So I'm creating a new label, and it's gonna be called ''derby people I heart¨.

Since my girlfriend is crawling into bed right now - and I'm probably as insomniac as ever - the first entry might come later tonight... or maybe I will just forcefully cuddle her.
Well, the first three derby people I heart - are going to be Mad Maloony, Alotta Riot and Colt 45.....

STRD minimumskills - six girls passed

2011-12-20T09:43:00.001+01:00

Yesterday we had WFTDA Minimum Skills Test - just the skating part - and six of our Fresh Meat passed!
I always get really excited about the minimum skills test - it always means that we will have new girls joining our ranks and see them grow into accomplished derby players. Passing minimum skills does not mean that you are boutready - but it means you have taken the first steps from just being a rollerskater towards becoming a safe and amazing rollerderby player!

This blog I started to write Tuesday - and now it's Friday... I think I must be real busy!

Bootcamp in Gothenburg

2011-12-19T12:07:00.001+01:00

Me and Loony went to Gothenburg this weekend to coach a bootcamp.... and it was superduper fun... even if it felt a little exhausting going to an airport for the 3000ish time this year.

MadFish from Gothenburg let us stay in her apartment and picked us up from the airport. Her apartment is like a little old ladies apartment - but no complains - except from her bed might be a little on the very firm side. Only my bed in my Chineese student dorm bed has been firmer (and with firm I mean rockhard in the case of China)... but who cares, MadFish is AWESOME - and she has all seasons of the Little House on the Prairie on DVD!

Gothenburgs practice space is an inlinehall with sportscourt, it juuust fits a regulation track, but it's awfully tight on the straightways. The inside temperature reflects the outside temparature a little too much... brrrrr... we could for sure tell it is December...

Saturday
Saturday was first four hours of training for girls that hadn't passed their minimum skills yet, we had a whole bunch of girls from Stockholm and Gothenburg, but also from Norway and other Swedish cities Becky Lawless from Stockholm also came to help us out with the coaching, and six eyes are always better than fou. Our first thought were to have som off-skate the first 30 min, but since the venue was so cold we decided to do the Black Widdow instead - one of my favorite drills that I have gotten from PiaMess. 14 laps in regular direction, 1 min exercise, 12 laps opposite direction, 1 min exercise, 10 laps regular direction and so on until there are 0 laps and everyone can have a drink of water. We decided that 14 laps was a good number for warm-up...
And then we tried to cover lot's of skills that are required to pass the WFTDA minimum skills, starts, stops, hits, balance, agility and CROSSOVERS - we also spent quite some time on skating in a big pack, being able to skate really close is superimportant to play derby. Everyone seemed really happy, maybe a little exahusted when the four hours were over...
Then we had an hour break before we had to coach the girls that had passed minimum skills, most of the girls came from Gothenburg and Luleå, and after the two hours practice Gothenburg Roller Derby scrimmaged Luleå with friends. I had the honor to benchcoach Gothenburg while Loony took care of Luleå. It was a really tight scrimmage, and it was refreshing to see people starting on the pivotline....
After scrimmage was settled and MVP was awarded (Villa got it for Gothenburg and Manic Medic for Luleå) we headed off to the Bootcamp afterparty at Sticky Fingers. I must say that I totally love the Stockholm Freshmeat, they are completly hillerious, so excited an motivated.

Sunday
We were seriously longing for a day to sleep in on, but the Sunday was not it, so up we went to coach the girls that scrimmaged the previous day. So we did not be unfair and only make the girls that hadn't passed their minimum skills do the Black Widdow, so we got the blood pumping with some good ol' Black Widdow. We had been asked to teach hockey-stops, so we did that using the simple and amazing way Urkin' teaches it. It is so simple and genious! Then we did some situational scrimmage, talking about taking a taking a knee at the jammerline but also how to handle a powerjam... it was awesome because the reffs got to practice too and I think they got really happy and did not have to sit in their small cold room just chatting about calls - but got soem nice hands on practice too...
And all of a sudden the four hours were over and we could head out for pizza... (tuna, corn, curry and pineapple).

What really sucked was that our flight back to Stockholm was two hours late - but I guess that's life!

Bottomline is that everyone were working so hard and the bootcamp was really well-planned, I really enjoy coaching camps, especially when I get fed! MmmmMmmmmm I love food!
It is great to see how rollerderby grows and progress in Sweden...

The bangs are back...

2011-12-14T15:44:00.001+01:00

Yes - I have new hair, well, I guess it's the same ol' hair - just in new style! I cut bangs (or fringe as the say in other English speaking places but America), I like it! I see how long I will be excited about the hair...
I do feel like I went a few steps more femme - yupp - I am totally loosing the butch-off. Lookwise at least...

Saved!

2011-12-10T14:42:00.001+01:00

Fluke, Hyper Loony and me drinking Pina Coladas

Derby is fun and all that, but breaks are needed, and I haven¨t taken a break from anything in a looong time, the point where I was to burn out was almost reached. We got saved by a Jamaica trip... Sun and the sound of the ocean... Just mellow times!
This is what I needed - no stress at all! Jah mahn...

I love my girlfriend

2011-12-09T14:34:00.001+01:00

We often get annoyed with each other, we have different opinions about things and we are both really stubborn. Sometimes I think we are totally wrong for each other - but I think that is what makes us stronger. I love to coach with her, I love to cook for her, I love to tease her and I just plainly have fun with her.

MVP for Sweden

2011-12-08T21:43:00.001+01:00

I got World Cup MVP for Sweden, I must say that I think that now in retrospective I do belive that every girl at the World Cup deserved MVP. We all did an amazing job and wrote histrory! I am proud to be a part of Team Sweden - and it has been a looong way here!

We accomplished so much! It is amazing!

(And I love that Nanda, MVP of Team Brazil is wearing a Team Sweden shirt...)

I am only human...

2011-12-08T21:29:00.001+01:00

I always try not to be so human, but sometimes it is very evident I am very human... this past year has been very turbulent and very crazy. I have loved every moment of it, but I am happy it is over. I have no wish to ever live in a 22 square meter apartment again, I spent every second weekend in a different city and I started a business, I moved to Sweden from US and headcoached Crime City and Team Sweden.

I have at most times put my feelings aside and I have tried to play fair for everyone, I honestly love my team and I love to plow work into things that I am passionate about. I compliment and I care, sometimes I probably care too much. I try to do what is best for everyone, but I am only human. Sometimes I do the wrong choices, sometimes I say the wrong things, and sometimes I just cry for a day.

I love coaching, I love building a team, I just hate organizing the things that has nothing to do with coaching, skating or rollerderby!

Yes I am still alive!

2011-12-08T00:21:00.001+01:00

The World Cup was the most exhausting experiance I have ever had, mentally and physically! It was fun, hard and I cried at several occations. I did not get enough sleep nor food, but I got to play derby with the best of Swedish Roller Derby and against the best of the rest of the world.
When our last game was over I was so drained... yepp...

Oh, and I got the MVP of Sweden, and that was a great honor. Thanks to the hard work that all of the Team Sweden skaters have put in. It has been a venture and an adventure, from the first little steps that was taken a year ago. Me and Loony are now trying to rest at Jamaica - and I am so happy we are here. The first day here I just cried of exhaustion, I have never felt this empty and tired.

I had the greatest of times, now I just need to rest, recharge and continue to play derby! MORE derby!

I am proud over the Team Sweden we built, there were times we weren't at our best, but seven games in four days and still standing strong, and being sixth in the world, is AMAZING!

Niagara Falls in late November

2011-11-29T15:22:00.001+01:00

So much water and like Vegas in IceAge wen went to Niagara Falls on Monday morning.

It was nice and quiet, me an Loony went with Kix and Becky and got on the cheap casino bus with a bunch of little Chineese women that seemed ready to gamble their lives away.
We also got scared to death at the huanted house... totally worth it! And none of us felt like taking hte barell down the falls - at all!
Now we are gonna watch dexter and then gp shopping at Queen street - that be window shopping!

Yesterday we saw fireworks...

2011-11-27T15:17:00.001+01:00

Rebel took us to the City Hall to watch fireworks - it was amazing. Firework accompanied by Christmas music... it was quite amazing! Walking and walking and then ending the night with some poutine and an oatmeal stout.

And then we totally FELL into bed and slept like little piglets until this morning when we woke up to a rainy Toronto. I am against RAIN!

Doing Toronto

2011-11-26T23:21:00.001+01:00

So Rebel took us out to see Toronto today... So we started to go to a castle that look like something taken out of a medivial movie and then we went to a tiny little zoo with random animals - and a random guy gave us veggies to feed the animals - despite the fact that there were sign stating ''Do not feed the animals''.

Then we went over to Chinatown and Kensinton Market to go shopping ending in an aaamazing burrito, I have not had a burrito this yummy since I moved from USA.

We are in Toronto

2011-11-26T16:13:00.001+01:00

Yesterday we got on the flight to Cananada, flew all the way from Sweden and landed in a VERY warm Toronto... Yayaaaa....
Me and Loony are staying with Rebel Rock-It from TORD - and we went grocery shopping this morning... and Loony found lot's of penutbutter... we didn't get it, but we got lots of other food... because fod is goood! Yayaaaa!!

Interview with me

2011-11-24T11:07:00.001+01:00

So the Scotland Rollerderby blog hit me up for an interview... here it is... and this picture has NOTHING to do with it... but the interview is good...

Mixed practice and life in general...

2011-11-24T10:21:00.001+01:00

Me and Jazz stopping to shop on the way from practice

Stress, stress, stress... but except the stress everything is fine... I try to battle it out with Bank of America - it is not the easiest from Sweden, I am also still trying to figure out what is appropirate to wear to office. Work-out clothes are not, dark jeans with a button down V-neck is. I am wearing heels, making me taller than most people - except from my brother and father that I happen to work with.
I am considering getting my brother into reffing, I think he would have fun reffing, I would just have to find skates in boat-size (a 14 or something).

Yesterday we had practice in Subtopia, that is a hangar that usually has circus preformances, it was my first time there. It is really big, but it has pillars in unfortunate places. But as I have gotten used to saying here in Stockholm - beggers can't be choosers...

Yesterday me and Loony led practice - I was superstressed when I got there - but after the first 15 minutes it felt much better. It was a mixed practice - so we had both our girls that haven't passed minimum skills togehter with our advanced skaters. It was the first time we did this, and it went very well, we focused on strides, crossovers, form, stops and did some small falling and skating close to each other. It is one of my pet-peeves, that girls have to learn to skate close to each otehr and NOT grab anyone when they fall. We all like our own personal space - but as a derbyplayer - there is not such a thing. And you cannot be scared of falling - that is why we wear all those pads!

When I get back from Toronto - it will be time for our fresh meat to pass their WFTDA minimum skills... oh and on the subject of Toronto I got nominated butchest of Team Sweden in this one blog...

First bout with Stockholm Roller Derby

2011-11-22T11:04:00.001+01:00

Stockholm A-team before our intro

This weekend we went and played against another WFTDA Apprentice league, Royal Windsor Rollergirls. It was Stockholms last game for the year 2011, but also mine and Maloonys first game with Stockholm.
It was a doubleheader, so first our B-team played against a mixed team consisting of girls from the area, and they did a really good job. I had the pleasure to be the line-up runner, and the team was calm, positive and worked well together. I must say I don't mind being the line-up runner again - it was fun.

Our A-team played second against Royal Windsors A-team, and Stockholm did really well, especially when we kept our heads calm and communicated with each other. Part of the bout got really sloppy, with some high-blocks, one of them giving Hyper Nova a very sexy fat-lip. (not sure if Hyper is feeling so sexy about it). Everyone in the team did a really good job, and it was fun skating with Stockholm in a bout, and I am looking forward to lots of practice with all the girls, there is so much talent here. Tomorrow is the last practice with Stockholm in a while, bsince we are taking off to Toronto, to play the World Cup with Team Sweden.
Oh, and the afterparty Stockholm for sure won, yeah, one of the girls lost her shoes, jacket and beanie... but no horses were gained...

B-team score: 97 - 41
A-team score: 259 - 93

B-team
Best Jammer - TARAism
Best Blocker - Sleaze Maschine
MVP - Jazz Ass

A-team
Best Jammer - Hyper Nova
Best Blocker - Swede Hurt
MVP - Mad Maloony

Don't forget to get your Team Sweden Merch

2011-11-15T10:06:00.001+01:00

We will be heading off to Toronto real soon, and we will bring ALL merch we haven't sold already to Toronto and are planning to sell the rest over there.
So get on this and get your Team Sweden merch before it is too late! I know you wanna get the first offical Team Sweden merch, this might be worth thousands in the future! OH YEAH!
And you will be helping us to finance the trip...
Think about it, this might be the best Christmas present for your derbywife, favorite referee, derby widow, captain, coach or just someone you really like...
(And dont forget that a gift for yourself is also a gift.)
http://shop.rollerderby.se/en/team-sweden-rollerderby/

Skating and living in Stockholm

2011-11-14T09:31:00.001+01:00

Our Track

So I haven't really written much about skating with Stockholm Rollerderby, mostly because I been really busy with Team Sweden, starting a new job, travelling to coach or just breathing in a spare moment. I just got back from coaching Crime City Rollergirls this weekend, and I am so proud of them, Loony and myself, how far we managed to bring them in only one year. It has been sad to leave them, buty moving to Stockholm has also been a very possitive experiance. Life is full of adventures, and I love to always be on the move, but Stockholm feel very final. This is were I wanna stick my restless roots down, this is a place I want to grow.

Oh, so Stockholm practices in a Go-Cart hall... yeah... one of the big problem has is that we have a really hard time to find a practice space, and now we finally have a place we can have regular times in. We have a go-cart hall that have let us paint and we can practice there twice a week. I know it is not the dream scenario, but it is MUCH better then not having any practices at all. The floor is acctually really fun!
I still dream of our own warehouse - and I probably will until we find one, but so far so good!
I do feel at home in Stockholm, and I am very happy and content that I have moved here, I am happy with my job, I am happy with Stockholm Rollerderby and I think Loony is happy too. And we are REALLY happy to have an apartment that is twice as big as the one we had in Malmö, I think we both are very delighted about that. We live close to the center of the city and to the subway (yes Stockholm has a subway and that makes Stockholm a real city, that and that there are over a million ppl living here)
Watching WFTDA Championships yesterday made me happy and sad, happy because Gotham won and they looked amazing, and I know how much hard work and determination that was behind that well-deserved win and and sad because I wasn't there, playing or watching. I must admit that I did miss US-derby and Gotham, watching Gotham win. Those girls are so amazing and hard-working! It makes me feel inspired to continue to work hard, skate hard and have hella fun.
But at least Stockholm is now WFTDA AP and we can start working towards world domination ;-).
But I do want to end this blog with congratulating Gotham Girls Roller Derby to their win!

Crawling in dirt and LIKING it

2011-11-11T00:25:00.001+01:00

So we try to do an off-skate activity each week - one of the days we don't have on-skate practice. So one of our fresh meat practice fount this Nordic Military Training - that are a bunch of people that meet up and do drills no matter what the weather or time of the year it is... So since the fresh meat had a rules session tonight, and Loony had to work - me, Twisted and Mousetrap Mary decided to see how much fun this can be a cold November night in Stockholm when it's around 10 degrees Celsius...

We got there and they asked us if we wanted to be in the the Basic or the Rookie group - since we felt like we should hang with the kool kids, we chose Basic.. .and if this was Basic, I really do not wanna know what their Regular group is like (or I probably do... )
AND IT WAS AWESOME... I will be sooo soooore tomorrow and we probably did planks for about 15 minutes during the training, we made human tunnels we had to crawl thru on the wet grass and there were burpees, jumps, sit-ups, push-ups, some jogging, more jumping, me smiling and laughing. We had a ONE minute water break during the entire practice, and I thought I was bad in giving people waterbreaks.
Did I tell you it was fun, I kept on smiling the entire time! It was almost as fun as the Ruffie training we did with Fysgruppen in Malmö - just different... more raw, wet and dirty...I for sure have to scrub my nails before I head to the office tomorrow...

I wish I had a picture to share with you guys - but as always - my camera on the phone is just not co-operating with me... so I hope my picture painting with words have been good enough for you!

Training Fresh Meat in Stockholm

2011-11-10T14:00:00.000+01:00

Me teaching the Shoetown Slayers to hit with their hips (sorry, I have no picture of the STRD fresh meat)

I love running Fresh Meat practices - you can see by the minute how much everyone improve. So as most of you know by now, me and Loony moved to Stockholm and joined Stockholm Rollerderby, and yesterday we got the pleasure to coach the future stars of Stockholm.

Yesterday we tought our freshmeats how to hit - hip hits of course - since that is the most used and according to ME and Loony the most effective hit. We started very basic with just moving the hips, and bumping into each other, just for them to learn the mechanics of the hits and then slowly moving up towards a good clean hip-hit. It was exciting to see how little corrections can take you a loooong way, and it is so much fun to see how far all those girls has gotten compared to just a month ago.

I am a big fan of basics, and in derby lot's and lot's of times I run into leagues that try to rush past the basics, so they can learn something fancy, but hte fancy will come when the basics are there. So I will continue to run cross-over, partner and hip-hit drills over and over again, both for my freash meats and my more advanced skaters - because we all need it... waht doesn't kill you, will make you stronger... and most of all it will make you pass minimum skills and then it will make you a better derby player and it will put a smile on your face.

Another thing I'm really happy about that we decided on in Stockholm is that we have 30 minutes off-skate before OR after each skate session, I can feel us all getting faster and more explosive... one day we will ALL be like Beater from Montreal (dreamy eyes)... and I think the Freashies had a good time doing lateral jumps and planks with me yesterday... because I felt it in my quads today! But not to forget - off-skate training keep your injuries down... get stronger... and stronger and then we can all take hits better and just keep on going and going and going...

Loong and awesome Team Sweden weekend

2011-11-06T21:56:00.002+01:00

Oh, I love my Swedish girls! Not only have Sweden TWO leauges that are in the WFTDA apprentice program - but we also have a Swedish national team that are going to compete in the first World Cup ever!
Oh yeah!
OH YEAH!
And I am now officially EXHAUSTED...
over and OUT!

Team Sweden went to Finland and some more...

2011-11-05T00:22:00.002+01:00

Alotta Riot, me and Barbara Barfight

As the first nation vs. nation Sweden played Finland in Helsinki - and it was fun and an amazing learning experiance. Getting the team ready for the world cup this bout showed our strengths and weaknesses but also that we really have fun as a team. I love this team - it is so much fun and makes me so proud to be a part of!

Maito Karhu (yes it is Finnish)

This weekend is our last Team Sweden training weekend before we are heading to the World Cup in Toronto in three weeks! Don't miss out on buying some of our really cool merch - you can find it online HERE.

If you feel an urge to donate some money to Team Sweden (and why would you not) you can always hit up www.teamswedenrollerderby.com and klick on our donation button. There you can also learn a little about all the 20 girls of Team Sweden.

How I love off-skate work-outs....

2011-11-04T23:39:00.001+01:00

I love bootcamps that has off-skates

So I was one of those girls that started derby because I thought it looked kool, I probably just wanted to go out and hit some girls, or hit on them, I probably liked the thought that the other girls were going to wear short skirts...
Honestly, there could be tons of more to this story, but I don't think I put that much thought into why I wanted to do derby, except from that I had just discovered that I thought roller-skating was fab and I was really looking for something to do except spending my money at the Wild Rose or some queer club, being terrible at talking to chicks I thought were hot, and have crushes on my friends and getting my heart broken and mending it by tequila and jumping into bushes... (there were some really good times in there too) I also had the very attractive habit of chain-smoking...

Well, long story short, I found derby and I loved it, I skated, skated and skated some more, I learned to jam, I learned to hit and got used to get hit. I got more fit than my sorry smoking ass had been in ages, I quit smoking and actually became good, no I became a GREAT derby player. I started to add extra skating sessions, I skated around Green Lake and I went to speedskating classes - I was having a grand ol' time learning to skate and playing derby. At some point I felt like I hit a wall, it was like it was telling me ''here but not further'' and I just could not figure out what I was missing.... It wasn't until I transfered to Gotham, I found that last little thing that was so easy to add in - but that just had not caught up to my brain yet... OFF-SKATE! Off-skate made it possible to take my derby to a new level. I became stronger, felt better about myself and most of all - I became a better derby-skater!

It made me remember back in the days when I was a competative snowboarder - when I would get up before the sun rose (I lived in Tärnaby, yeah, not the sun not rising doesn't really mean that much that far North) to go for a jog before we would head down to class. We would do both strenght, agility, endurance and plyos several times a week, and I remember being sore - but also having one of the best seasons of my life, and with the least injuries too...

Off-skate practice is crucial to make you a better derby-player, it is not everything, but I promise, adding off-skate into your weekly practice scedual is gonna make your team so much better... and you know what? Just half an hour twice a week makes a big difference... Yeah - I know I am crazy...

OFF-SKATE is FUN!! Mostly because it makes me a kick-ass derby player my team can relay on but also because I can impress impressive people like Krissy Krash, Beater and Mad Maloony... yeah... that too... muuuscles... muscles... he he he he (btw Mad Maloony claims she is impressed by me - mission completed)

Catching up on myself....

2011-11-04T12:45:00.001+01:00

Crime City vs. Berlin

So sometimes life just go crazy - and the past few month been like this, and it will go on and on until the end of this year, but that is ok. I really have not had time to sit down and write... but it has been great times!

Nordic Light was a great success, and two weeks later we bouted Berlin - won, and that was mine and Loonys last bout with CCR. We were soooo sad to leave Crime City, but sometimes life takes you places that aren't determined by derby. So now we live in Stockholm... and we joined Stockholm Roller Derby, and I get to see my family very much. Well, not as much as I want to - yet, since ever since we moved here things been really intense.

First we had a Team Sweden weekend in Crime City, then we went to Helsinki to play Team Finland, and then I came back to Stockholm, just to leave for UK, to coach in Northampton at Sk8te Heaven for two weekends. I had a great time coaching and seeing friends that I haven't seen in quite a while and also got to skate with London Rollegirls for two sessions. Not to mention I got to see Team Swedens two London bound ladies, Knickerblocker and Kit Kat Power.

Ehm... I probably done a thousand other things too - like moving ALL our stuff, coaching CCR, off-skates, painting our new appartment, going to IKEA, coaching STRD, starting a new job, attended derbyrelated meetings... yeah... and much more....

Summing hte weekend in Helsinki up...

2011-10-10T17:19:00.001+02:00

For the first time in history, two national teams met and battled it out... Team Sweden traveled over to Helsinki to bout Team Finland... I will write a looonger re-cap of it when I have time, but I am off to Stockholm Rollerderby to coach a practice... But I have chosen to put up one picture that summs part of the weekend up... Enjoy HussInsane (team sweden) trapped in a Finnish dogcage Sunday morning...

Team Sweden Shirts - GET ONE

2011-09-22T21:39:00.001+02:00

Me and Alotta Riot representing....

So we finally got the Team Sweden Rollerderby shirts online - so please support Team Sweden and buy one. Every penny you spend on the shirt will be used to bring Team Sweden Rollerderby to Toronto and then to house, feed and cloth them when there. You can buy our AMAZING T-shirts online now... Help us realize our dream, and get a cool shirt!

Bout weekend - again

2011-09-18T18:37:00.001+02:00

Team Sweden afterparty dancing

So yesterday Crime City's B-team played Stockholm and beat them and then we played Berlin Bombshells - and they had a very coordinated intro. The final result was about 253-28 or something like this... oh, since I'm an idiot I killed my finger in the sixth jam or something exciting like that, I am unsure if I broke the tip of my finger or if I just sprained it... all I can say is that it is extreamly painful and difficult to type on the computer.... and it is purple and yellow...
The afterparty was really epic, the music video that we did with LoopTroop Rockers were shown and it was aaaaaamazing. Me and JazzAss probably went to bed at 06.30 and then we had to get up at 11.00 to go and scrimmage some. It was a nice little mixed scrimmage, all the German girls already left, but we had one of the Paris Rollergirls, a bunch of CCR girls that bouted yesterday, some Stockholm girls and some Finnish ladies :-D.
I tried to keep myself off the track, finger was hurting, but it only lasted for 25 min, after 25 min I found myself on the track, lazy blocking... and it was great...

Now I'm gonna watch some derby...... eastern playoffs... London vs. Montreal... I so cannot decide who to root for!!

Non-broken toes and long walks

2011-09-15T22:21:00.004+02:00

I found a Hello Kitty soda... it tasted YUCKY and waaay to sweet

So yesterday I was SURE my toe was broken - but after som intense arnica and painkiller treatment the swelling had gone down - the discoloration was still massive, but I decided it was not broken and I will be able to skate with it in two days... pehww... I even went for a long walk into the ''city center'' of Malmö, the first 20 minutes were really painful and I wanted to cry, but after a while it seemed like the toe warmed up to the thought of walking.

We strolled into a couple of stores, because we were getting haircolor for Loony, she was going INTENSLY ginger... I like strolling into clothing stores - cheking out what's cool and swhat's on sale - and in one of the stores I found this AMAZING leathr jacket! i just WANTED it, it was everything I ever wanted in a jacket! I looked at the pricetag 1600 swedish kronor (that is about 242 US dollar) and choked - I could NOT afford that.. and then I looked up - I was by the sales rack, and everything was 70%... may I tell you all that I now FINALLY have the leather jacket of my dreams, I now look very dyke and no longer have to steal Loonys jacket to wear a jacket. I am very pleased, I think this was a very sucessful day!

Ninja looking for Twinkie

And then we met up with Ninja and her dog Twinkie outside the store - we went and sat in the fall sun until we got cold and Ninja almost lost her dog in the flowerbed. (it was quite hillerious to watch her look for Twinkie among the flowers... )

And then Loony bleached all her hair to put bright orange haircolor in it, and I got so inspired I put a bright yellow stripe in my hair... Guess I am really representing CCR on Saturday in our bout we play against Berlin. Crime Citys last homebout of the season!

I am a clumsy but stubborn one

2011-09-15T01:35:00.001+02:00

I am licking my lips... hungry for jammer... Fenix is going for blocker blood

So we all know me, I am a tall girl, I have big feet, I am sort of awkward, but in some way uncoordinated and coordinated at the same time. (anyone who seen my try aerobics knows what I mean)... I might be just a tad better than Fisti Cuffs...

Well, I am just also really good at injuring myself outside of derby... Those sharks are after me... biting me into little pieces, so once again my missfortune struck and I am limping around and mouning and feeling sorry for myself, like there is not tomorrrow. Buhu... I am a big freaking baby, and there is 3 days until bout time... I guess life ain't easy!I actually tried to run stair with the rest of the team today, and I am so proud of them, they look more and more fit for each day that passes by. I cannot belive they put up with me, off-skates, on-skates... but htey are all such good sports and becoming more athletic by the day...

Oh, and Ginger Snap, my old team-mate wrote a really good piece on Derby Names today... I love my derby name, but I am happy it is so... ehm... me... and I can totally explain to my Swedish talking sisters what I means...

Okey, it is time for sleep and hopefully I will heal up just a tad bit more so I can fall apart on Saturday.. .after the game!

Oh, and my girlfriend is fantastic! On and off skates....

Picture that makes me look really big

2011-09-14T08:04:00.003+02:00

Nights are for sleep and work

2011-09-14T02:00:00.000+02:00

I work better in the night, Loony has her final exam tomorrow at school, she fell asleep a looong time ago, I answer customer mails and browse the intraweb.

but off to sleep

Mini-meltdown over everything

2011-09-11T19:47:00.001+02:00

I don't really have much against having lots of things to do, but right now, I'm once again just a little on the verge...
Today we had a 3 hour practice, 1 hour of drills, 1 hour scrimmage, and 1 hour of skills where we skated backward and other fun stuff that we don't practice often enough... and then a few of us went into the sauna and drank tons of water.

Right now Loony are printing T-shirts for our B-team that are bouting STRD's rookie team next Saturday, and I'm trying to sort five things out at the same time. I think I need a secretary... It's really interesting how people just tell you ''I am really sorry, but I just don't have the time right now'' but then expect things to just happen... Yeah... things just appear out of freaking nothing... Yeah, I am feeling a little whiny right now - I have a headache and I think the cold that everyone seem to suffer from currently is attacking me.

I HATE living in this crappy small appartment, we event had to make toast today in a freaking pot, since we don't own a proper pan, and I can't walk anywhere in the apartment without falling over something, because there is barley room for one preson. AhhhhhhhAHHHHhhhHHAHHHHh

And I don NOT have time to get sick - curse all!

Barfight and Packmans party

2011-09-10T23:47:00.000+02:00

Me, Fenix, Muffa, Smacky and EvilEye defining the pack...

After three hours of practice we went to Barfight and Packmans house (in the middle of fields about 30 min outside Malmö) to enjoy an amazing get together with lots of Crime City girls and food (me and Loony made a yummy french vegan potatoe salad)... we all brought something and then we just munched away... and guess what... it tasted amazing and we had a great time! Well, we might have gotten a little tired at times, and some of us took a pack-nap... PACK IS HERE!!

Night Skate Malmö

2011-09-10T12:24:00.000+02:00

Picture stolen from the newspaper Metro

Last night Malmö had the first ever Night Skate, and it was awesome, Crime City was one of the organizers behind it and about 150 people turned up to be a part of it, all with skates on their feet. We rolled on the streets and just enjoyed the for once great weather and sunset... it was a great time and it will happen again on the 23rd of September. The route was around 15km, so it was a good amount of rolling and there were lots of people of all ages on inlines and quad-rollerskates.... It was great, I got to see lots of Crime City girls that haven't been around practice in a while, and it made me happy to see them.

Rough Ruffie training

2011-09-08T22:04:00.001+02:00

Grocery shopping with Loony is never boring...

Alotta Riots cousin does something called ruffie training and it's a really cool mix between fitness exercises with elements of martial arts and wrestling... and today Alottas cousin came to lead one of Crime City's off-skates andcan find more info on Fysgruppen.se, that he came from here...
This was one fast paced hour of hardcore, sweaty fun. To be honest, I am one of those people that hate to work out, if it feels like I work out... ok, I lied, I do like to work out, but I like it more if I get tricked into it. Most excersices were for two, and you know, everything is more fun when you partner up with someone. We all had a blast, and I think we all will be sore tomorrow... and being sore is a good thing :-D
Also a lot of the exercises were good for building up muscles that will be useful during derby...

If you ever get the chance to try this! I totally recommend it! DO IT!

Back on track

2011-09-08T07:46:00.002+02:00

CCR vs. Copenhagen

So CCR is playing Berlin in just 8 days, so the whole resting up after Nordic Light is not an option, and the ones that aren't playing against Berlin are going to play against Stockholms B-team. So no rest for the wicked, and I guess spending Monday in bed feeling like i got hit by a train was enought for me... Yesterday we revisited the lovely parking garage and ran stairs like there was no tomorow, I do like those stairs, even if I think my skaters think I might be a little crazy, they like it too (at least I tell myself that). After the stair crazyness we had a really good talk of what we did good and what we did not so good during Nordic Light,there is always room for extra development!

I am happy my hamstring finally healed up, I couldn't skate for almost three weeks, because my hamstring was pulled. It honestly felt like someone was yanking a knife into the back of my leg everytime I sprinted or tried to do something sudden... and if you can't sprint nor do sudden movements, you can't really play derby. During Nordic Light I skated with my leg neatly wrapped, since it is how I have dealt with a pulled groin earlier. But before Nordic Light I forced myself to some aggressive resting... and that and the wrap helped out, I was just in a little pain... and pain just gives you charachter ya know... (but I had to skate in longer shorts to cover the wrap up... no hot pants this time, maybe next bout)

Nordic Light MVP's

2011-09-06T08:50:00.001+02:00

Suvi Hokkanen, Helsinki Rollerderby

Mad Maloony, Crime City Rollers

Udre, Kallio Rolling Rainbows

Blood Countess, Stockholm Rollerderby

Martattack, Copenhagen Rollerderby

Teams gotta vote for one MVP of the weekend - and the results came in as above. I am very happy to announce them here and again, since they are all fantastic skaters and did fantastic during the weekend. The pictures above are shamelessly stolen from the skaters facebook pages... well.. well.. over and out!
(I guess I'll never get MVP until I start jamming again....)

Loooong weekend to an end...

2011-09-05T19:45:00.008+02:00

So it has been a loooong weekend - but it has been amazing and full of fantastic derby. It was so amazing at the end when I stod on the floor after the last whistle blew and just realized I put on a rollerderby event with SIX BOUTS during two days... in my native contry. Me and Vix just put on the largest roller derby event ever in mainland Europe... kind of kool to be honest.

We had five full teams from three contries - and three full bouts a day... and it all ran really amazingly smooth.

I can't belive we did it, and it made me tear up... stressful weekend, but it was fun... I even jammed once... but that was only because my lovley girlfriend totally tricked me into it!

Crime City Rollers played three bouts, two on Saturday and one on Sunday... they were all hard but we ended up winning all three... I am very proud of Crime City!We won against Kallio, Copenhagen and Helsinki with over 100 points in each boute. I am proud over us getting so far in less than a year! Hard work and dedication is paying off...

Stockholm won against Copenhagen and so did we, but Stockholm lost to Helsinki who beat Kallio, and we also beat Kallio, but we also beat Helsinki... and earlier this year we did beat Stockholm... So I sort of wanna say that we currently are the best team in the North... After this weekend I would say that we have a feeling of where all the teams are at, and since we all have been playing other teams in Europe, we can slowly start to see what level we are at...

This weekends bouts and results:

Crime City vs. Kallio: 191 - 43
Stockholm vs. Helsinki: 77 - 141

Crime City vs. Copenhagen: 266 - 61
Helsinki vs. Kallio: 217 - 57
Copenhagen vs. Stockholm: 137 - 149
Crime City vs. Helsinki: 212 - 76

First day of Nordic Light

2011-09-04T08:58:00.000+02:00

We played Kallio and Copenhagen today, it was hard games, but we ended up beating them both with over 100 points.
I am VERY proud of my team, Crime City Rollers are amazing and hard-working... and that is what I love about them.

Today is the last day of Nordic Light, and we are playing Helsinki as the last game. Yepp, I am out of bed, drinking coffee and ready to go work the whole day at the venue before we are playing!

Our Team Made us a PRESENT!!

2011-09-03T08:32:00.000+02:00

Yesterday at the team-meeting the team presented us with matching jackets saying ''Crime City Rollers Coach'' HOW cute is that?

Tomorrow is Nordic Light

2011-09-02T12:14:00.000+02:00

Me and Husse after STRD vs. CCR

I don't know where the time went, it feels like it was yesterday when me and Vix sat in her living-room and started to draw up guidelines for a big Nordic RollerDerby event... and tomorrow it is on... We invited the five currently bouting Nordic teams - to a two day event.. .and hopefully it will paly out to be lots and lots of fun, with lots and lots of derby... and derby and fun are usually synonyms...

So many things to do and it just feels like there is too much time and too little time... My head is totally overheating and I try not to forget anything... But it is gonna be AMAZING - and if you are coming, make sure to get your ticket right here and now! It will be cheaper and faster for you, me and all of us! And you are sure you have a ticket to the most amazing rollerderby event EVER in Scandinavia....

Parking Garage Fun with stairs

2011-09-01T08:45:00.001+02:00

Hail the mighty parking garage... our new love/hate

So I have just realized that just next to our out-door track a there is a huge parking garage, well, it is not like I haven't seen it, we even shot a music video with LoopTroop Rockers earlier this year. So I have been very aware of the parking garage, I have just not been using it to it's full potential, since the parking garage is in an area that is not really busy around 19.00 when we have practice....

ok, ok... I will get to the point - the point is that the parking garage has 5 flights of STAIRS... oh yeah... oh yeah! So know Crime City Rollers are set until the winter... we are running STAIRS, over and over again... and to add to the fun, when we were jogging IN the parking garage I realized that the slopes between the levels are PERFECT for upp-hill plyos... (amazing memories from snowboarding off-snow exercises). And a good thing with parking garages too... is that we can be there even when it rains outdoors and we don't have an indoor practice space. Since Nordic Light only is TWO days away - we went light on it yesterday - but I cannot wait for the future sessions we will have there... this is gonna hurt! Hurt so good... (and since my name is Swede Hurt - I guess that is a good thing... right?)

This is probably when I tell the story of when I moved to Tärnaby (with HussInsane) to attend Tärnaby Folkhögskola: Snowboard Linjen and we had one of our first practices off-snow with the skiiers... yeah there were sprints upphill, there were jumping up-hill and there were stairs involved. It was very evident the next few days that snowboarders training regime was NOT the same as the skiiers... All the snowboarders were so sore we could barley walk around school, while the skiiers didn't even seem like there been an extra hard training session... but it all made us better snowboarders, and I ended up winning the total Swedish Cup that year... Good times... good times....

History is in making this weekend...

2011-08-31T11:04:00.000+02:00

A year ago, there was not a singel Swedish team that had ever bouted, not a single Finnish team that had ever bouted (or when did Helsinki bout first time?) and Denmark had one bout under their belt... and this coming weekend there will be FIVE full teams bouting against each other!

THAT my friends is EXCITEMENT! And we are hoping that next year we can add Norway to Nordic Light... and in two years maybe Iceland... who knows... the sky is the limit!

So if you don't wanna miss out, come to Malmö this weekend - have a beer or two and watch the largest Roller Derby event in Nordic history.... YAYAaaaaaa....

Get your tickets NOW!!

Berlin Bootcamp

2011-08-31T10:54:00.000+02:00

Swedish Maffia on the same team... it was a sweet and fun scrimmage...

So last weekend I spent in Berlin, coaching an Advanced Bootcamp together with Suzy Hotrod, it was good to see her again and get som news from NYC. I miss Gotham at times like this, a lot...
The camp was good times, and lots of the girls were really talented, and it is good to see that continetal Europe has girls that will become amazing. There were girls from Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Poland, Luxemburg, France and Germany... and well... I am so happy to see the rate European derby is developing at, and I am glad to always have my dear Mad Maloony by my side.

I got to drink Club Mate and hang out with people I really like, we stayed with Shetation as usual, and that was as nice as ever, and Titty Twista was staying there too, and I heart her too. On Friday night, we went to Master Blasters skate store opening, and it is really cute. On Saturday we went out for YUMMY Italian food and then for a beer with the Stockholm girls... and on Sunday we went for food and beers after the Black and White scrimmage that ended the camp... and I almost forgot my skatebag there... yikes!

BAck from Berlin

2011-08-30T00:36:00.000+02:00

I will let you know all about coaching in Berlin - it was great fun! I loved it! But I am really starting to feel worn out! So I'll write a longer blogg about it! Now I just wanna say - coem and watch some darn derby! In Malmö this weekend - BAttle of the Nordic Light - and you get your tickets here... HERE.... HERE

17th of September

2011-08-24T08:27:00.000+02:00

So after we are all done with Nordic Light - we will just have to pick it all up again and play a bout against Berlin Bombshells...

SwedeVix got T-shirts

2011-08-24T07:39:00.000+02:00

Excited SwedeVix owners

Oh yea... right in time for Battle of Nordic Light - SwedeVix got their own T-shirts! Look at us! Me and Vix looking a little AMAZING in our new T-shirts... we both wore them for off-skates practice last night, and now they smell... the first smelly SwedeVix t-shirts EVER!

F*ck it, sun is shining!

2011-08-22T17:35:00.000+02:00

And a HUGE thanks to Fluke Skywalker who made this poster happen...

So outdoor practice it is! On our own outdoor track! It is awesome - since rain has been haunting me! Crossing my fingers that the sun will last until we gotten to practice and had an entire pratice too... it will be great, and hopefully the little skateboard brats will not bother us either.

I just started to use my Flatout Outragous on hte outdoor track, and they work really well, I used them yesterday at Stockholms practice, and despite the mad amount of dust, they gripped really well. Stockholm just found an outdoor hockey rink with a roof over it! SCORE... so they are also getting some practice in before Nordic Light. If we are arranging Nordic Light again next year - we will make sure it's not right after the summer, since most leauges seem to coming off summer holiday right now, and the Swedish leauges seem to ahve a problem to get indoor space during the summer, since schools are closed.

Well, well... you learn while you skate... or live... or whatever is cleaver... so now over and out and totally into practice... my hamstrings are feeling much better - so maybe I can even be a part of practice today!

The summer that never came

2011-08-22T10:43:00.000+02:00

A year ago at Rockaway Beach...

I been waiting around for summer to hit since May, patiently waiting and all of a sudden it was fall. Yepp, I got cheated out of summer, and that makes me NOT very happy! It makes me wanna cry - gigantic tears.
I do not demand much of summer, but I need two weeks of unbearable heat, of warmth that loosens my bones and joints and makes me wish the weather was more shitty. This year I was not given those two crucial weeks that makes me live through the cold and dark winter...
My batteries have not been recharged, I am still running on that spare reserve battery that I was left with this spring...

Go on a vacation you might suggest - but there is no money for that - I have spent my money helping out with derby. And on the other hand there is no time for a vacation... life is just full of a bunch of must do and must be right now...

And dear friends, I am not complaining at all, not at all... I don't mind... just once in a while, but everythign would have felt so much better if there would have gotten those two weeks of utter heat, of heat that would have made my knees stop hurting and made the beach luring...

Ok - I admitt I am TOTALLY and COMPLETLY complaining... I WANT MY SUMMER! GIVE ME MY DARN SUMMER YOU DAMN SUMMER HOGS!

Off to Stockholm for a breath...

2011-08-20T07:43:00.003+02:00

So my brother has his long awaited birthday party - my hamstrings are still hurting, my girlfriend is coming and we are setting off to Stockholm. Yesterday we went and saw Coco Rosie and it was really amazing - it stormed on scene and I swear it was snowing... It is August and we are all freezing, it is not fair, I have no clue were the summer went... Stockholm today - back on Monday!

Well, we are gonna to finalize our roosters for our games during Nordic Light on the train... be there or be square.... F*** we had practice on Wedesday, and you can tell everyone have been away for the past month... life aint easy at times... Let's pick it up... because you know when you got it!

Killed by myself... with some help of some Rocky Mountain girls

2011-08-19T03:56:00.001+02:00

The are always sooo attentive.... my dear Crime City

So Rocky Mountain went quite hard on my hamstrings, DeRange has this amazing heel-to-toe stride that we all tried to learn, yeah... and aperently that is NOT what my hamstrings like a few days later - that in combo with running forward on the toestops and slowing down while running full-speed... yeah... adding to that is that we ran downhill intervals during an offskates session... all this together left me with overworked hamstrings... A sensible and smart person would have gone home to Sweden and layed down and done nothing for a few days...

I am not this person, I held an off-skates practice with my team... running and jumping over obsticles... yeah... I did that until it felt like someone was jamming a knife into my hamstrings (or more like 5 knives) and I fell to the ground... the next day I held a four hour practice... everytime I tried to do something that involved sprints, I fell to the floor in excrutiating pain (true story) and since sprints and stops is what derby is all about, I just had the pleasure to coach even more... yaya... no skating for poor me... buhuuu... Like HONESTLY... I have NEVER been in this much pain in my hamstrings before...
So know I'm on a ibuprofen diet... yeah... probably for the best... I cannot even walk fast... I think I might get better by the day after tomorrow... I feel a sudden urge to do 200 sit-ups... and a plank...

Rocky Mountain Camp post-party

2011-08-18T03:05:00.001+02:00

Well, I blame the Germans... even if we are in UK

It's never to late to do a plank... 3 am at the hotel

Who knew derbygirls were so talented at making pyramids on rotating podiums... it is almost like as if we were cheerleaders

Deranged and Loony bonded by 3 hours non-stop dancing

Me and AJ sharing a moment with a rose

So what do you do with people you haven't seen for a long time and you find yourself in Birmingham... yeah, you go and find an almost empty bar that plays 80's music and drink a few jägerbombs, dance, build a pyramid, dance some more, take random pictures, get harassed by ugly Brittish dudes, plot how to get an american citizenship, talk about skating, dance, drink a few jägerbombs, dance... try to remember that I am wearing a skirt (AJ's) and not pants... skirt starts to act like it thinks it's a belt.. .dance some more... and BAM bar closes down... we stroll in fountains, get chased out by the officers (without funny hats) and then did lots and lots of planks while drinking beer!

London Roller Girls vs. Rocky Mountain

2011-08-16T23:29:00.004+02:00

Knickerblocker Glory streaching after the game

So last weekend was spent in London and Birmingham, and it was fantastic, and sad, and amazing. I realized how much I acctually do miss playing high-level derby, and at the same time it was great to see old friends, make new friends, play and practice and just not have to be the strict coach... I liked that quite a lot!
The bout was no big suprise, London did draw first blood (that was a suprise), and then after that they did not score much while RMRG kept on putting points on the board. I must say that I am very impressed by Kamikaze Kitten - she was doing great jamming for London, and I must say that London had great walls, but against the well-oiled machine that Rocky is, they just did not match up.Stephanie Mainey did some great job jamming, but she is a fierce blocker, and I must say I also have a soft spot for Raw Heidi :-D.
DeRanged jammed amazingly, Psyko was cocky and amazing on hte track (I think she's the only skater that I know that get away with the attitude and still is so lovable) and Rocky are just so well times and has some amazing team-work... and AJ looked great - even if she just got back from an ankle injury... Yeah... it was great to watch, the bout was intense and not boring a minute even if Rocky were winning, with A LOT.
Oh, and we did not end up in the middle of any riots either... a weekend of sucess.. .I will write soem more about the camp when I wake up tomorrow morning... we just got back from off-skates practice and that ontop of the weekend... my hamstrings need some loving!

Off to London...

2011-08-11T07:39:00.003+02:00

Dear world...
I am off to London of all places... and Birmingham... I got myself an ACTUAL derby vacation, that meaning that I am going somewhere - NOT coaching BUT skating... yeppers...
yeah... over and out....

(and yes, it is derby related)

I am meeting Krazy Kris at the airport in about 45 min, so I better run of now... hasta la vista babes... see you another day!

Giving up the Booze

2011-08-09T09:39:00.000+02:00

Me and my nice petting bunnies in Stockholm

Kicking into gear....
So this weekend I decided that I am over it, I am over getting a little to drunk going out, I love to drink with food, I like to have a few really good beers, I just don't like being hammered and falling into chairs while dancing. So from now and on - no more shots - only really YUMMY beers and good wine... and ok, the pre-party wineschorles...
I am not that much of a fun drunk - I am much more fun sober or slightly tipsy, so I think I am gonna stay there, because I like to be fun, I like to have fun. And also alcohol totally ruins your fitness, and I need to get back into gear, with Nordic Light only three weeks away, a game against Berlin only seven weeks away and Sweden is playing Finland the 8th of October... not to talk about the World Cup in December. Yepp, let's all kick into gear, get more fit, have more fun and work harder! Cheers ;-)

From Berlin with love...

2011-08-08T20:29:00.000+02:00

We also call her MONKEY at times

Rotation also made us smell the flowers - there were signs with the Latin AND German names

Rotation took us for many walks - and everywhere I found something to play with

We had to hide in a play-house because it rained so hard, and then we walked to the car in our underwear

We went to Hanna Hellfires Baby Shower and I petted a dog

I did the Bunny with Bunny aka Beatrix Slaughter, my old team mate from Gotham

So I am currently suffering from writers block... so I guess I'll just go with the old saying, a picture say more than a thousand words, and just imagine how much those seven pictures with captions are saying... they just told you all EVERYTHING about my Berlin trip.... well, we also as I said earlier scrimmaged with the Berlin Bombshells (thanks for having us), I got SUPERSICK for 24hours and almost thought I was gonna die, we watched the worst movie ever... I promised not to tell ANYONE we watched it... we walked by Master Blasters skateshop that is under construction, and it looked hella nice, we spent lots of time with Rotation and as much time as we could with Shevil, since she had to work... and then we took the darn bus home...

And it rains again...

2011-08-07T11:42:00.000+02:00

two of my favorite things in Sweden

We went to Berlin and it rained and the bout was cancelled (not because of the rain but because of Air France being bitches and going on strike). We scrimmaged with Berlin Bombshells and that was all good. It was fun to see Shevil and Rotation again, we made them shirts saying ''Swoony hearts Shetation'' and we stayed on their coach as usual... After Berlin we headed back to Malmö, just to move onto Stockholm, in Stockholm we went of an amazing outdoorskate and hung out with all the Stockholm girls.
And today it's time to head back to Malmö - more driving ahead and it's raining... I am honestly REALLY sick of driving and rain!

Vaccation from CrimeCity

2011-07-28T09:48:00.000+02:00

So Crime City have a two week vaccation - no work for the leauge to do, for two weeks... That is probably not gonna be as easy as it sounds for me, but I am trying, I am trying. Me and Loony leaving tomorrow to go to Berlin and watch Berlin Bombshells play Paris Rollergirls, so our ''vaccation'' is not derby-free. Vix is taking a bunch of orders to Oslo, where they started a new league not to loong ago, her and Ninja are going to teach them a couple of basics, so we all keep busy.

And when we are not busy with anything else, we go skate outdoors (Loony think ya all are sick of ppl outdoorskating)...

I mean serious business... until the afterparty

2011-07-24T14:27:00.000+02:00

before party

Soooo.... I woke up this morning and Loony emptied the bag I brought back from the afterparty, and in it she found some money (probably mine), a lighter (not mine I quite smoking almost 4 years ago), Loonys MVP medal, a thing of cottage cheese (I think I might have taken that from the after afterparty), the good-luck mascot that one of our team-mates gave to us (and it was NOT left in my care) and my scarf.... yeah, I have this habit of accumilate things during drunkan shennanigans... I guess I am MUCH more serious on the track than off....

Crime City wins over London Rocking Rollers Rising Stars

2011-07-23T20:35:00.003+02:00

CCR getting ready to bout!!

It was a little jittery before the bout, because many of or usual skaters are in US, on their own adventures... but it all ended up being all good... I think the final score was 300 - 43... We did our thing and it worked out... I am really proud over how far CCR has come in only 6 months... It is increadble to realize that almost none of the girls on todays roster had EVER played a bout in February, most of them acctually passed minimum skills in January, (some in April). Yeah... I am proud of how great we work together, how dedicated we are and how much fun we have (even if I might yell at them at times...) and Loony finally got the MVP she so well deserved!
But yeah, now I'm home and feeling a little off, I got quite a bad hit to my head, yayaaa... so now I have to decompress and hopefully be well in a little bit so I can go to the afterparty!

My heart and thoughts go out to Norway

2011-07-23T11:37:00.002+02:00