It is five years later - it is five years since I started rollerderby! A decision I never regret!
About five years ago I went to my first Jet City practice. (I think it was in October 2007) I remember I was soooo nervous, I did not know what to expect at all... I had just e-mailed them and they told me to show up... I had told them I was tall and blonde and that I had my own gear (bought online a few weeks earlier). Honestly I really did not know much about rollerderby, than it was a sport for women on rollerskates, and that it was fullcontact... oh, and that the outfits were quite colorful.
I drove the 45 min from Seattle up to Everett and sat on the parkinglot of the skaterink to build my confidence up, and watched a few girls enter the building. I didn't wanna be the first there, but I for sure did not wanan be the last, I really wanted to start the car and just drive off...
But I kept on telling myself that it would be just fine, that this was somethign I really wanted. And then finally I got myself out of the car and into the rink...
I remember it being a little dark and I ended up just standing in the entrance feeling a little lost watching a few girls skate around on the rink. Suddenly a short woman came up to me and asked me if I was "that Swedish girl". I nodded and she pointed over to a corner where a few girls were putting their gear on "That's our Fresh Meat group, just go put your gear on and you can skate with them" and so I did. I even rememeber what I was wearing to this firs practice, tight acid washed strech jeans and a white oversized Misfits shirt.
So I got all my gear on, and entered my first practice, I think we were practicing stops and weaving and we were about 10 people using a small corner of the rink since there was a regular practice going on at the same time... I was still supernervous but everyone seemed really nice, and I got compliments for trying and I was having the time of my life, I probably fell about a thousand times and I kept on getting up, just to fall again.
After that first practice I knew was going to come back, and after a few practices I becamse really good friends with one of the other Fresh Meats and we started to carpool and she later became my derbywife (Colt 45). This year I watched her on wftda.tv jam for her current team Sacred City, and it made me remember those fresh meat practices we shared, all those drives and the really bad jokes we shared....
.... and now five years later... I am still comming back to Rollerderby... I am... I love it, and I am very thankful and happy that i did start rollerderby... and to all the people that have turned me into the skater I am today!
HERE YOU CAN FIND MY OWN SUMMRY AFTER A YEAR OF SKATING...
About five years ago I went to my first Jet City practice. (I think it was in October 2007) I remember I was soooo nervous, I did not know what to expect at all... I had just e-mailed them and they told me to show up... I had told them I was tall and blonde and that I had my own gear (bought online a few weeks earlier). Honestly I really did not know much about rollerderby, than it was a sport for women on rollerskates, and that it was fullcontact... oh, and that the outfits were quite colorful.
I drove the 45 min from Seattle up to Everett and sat on the parkinglot of the skaterink to build my confidence up, and watched a few girls enter the building. I didn't wanna be the first there, but I for sure did not wanan be the last, I really wanted to start the car and just drive off...
But I kept on telling myself that it would be just fine, that this was somethign I really wanted. And then finally I got myself out of the car and into the rink...
I remember it being a little dark and I ended up just standing in the entrance feeling a little lost watching a few girls skate around on the rink. Suddenly a short woman came up to me and asked me if I was "that Swedish girl". I nodded and she pointed over to a corner where a few girls were putting their gear on "That's our Fresh Meat group, just go put your gear on and you can skate with them" and so I did. I even rememeber what I was wearing to this firs practice, tight acid washed strech jeans and a white oversized Misfits shirt.
So I got all my gear on, and entered my first practice, I think we were practicing stops and weaving and we were about 10 people using a small corner of the rink since there was a regular practice going on at the same time... I was still supernervous but everyone seemed really nice, and I got compliments for trying and I was having the time of my life, I probably fell about a thousand times and I kept on getting up, just to fall again.
After that first practice I knew was going to come back, and after a few practices I becamse really good friends with one of the other Fresh Meats and we started to carpool and she later became my derbywife (Colt 45). This year I watched her on wftda.tv jam for her current team Sacred City, and it made me remember those fresh meat practices we shared, all those drives and the really bad jokes we shared....
.... and now five years later... I am still comming back to Rollerderby... I am... I love it, and I am very thankful and happy that i did start rollerderby... and to all the people that have turned me into the skater I am today!
HERE YOU CAN FIND MY OWN SUMMRY AFTER A YEAR OF SKATING...
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| Probably from my second bout with JetCity... 2008 |
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