Scrimmage practices are back

Sunday scrimmage practices are back - new structures for the fall are getting planned, my old friend Fisti Cuffs will be here next week, and I am excited about that.

Todays scrimmage went well, we played around a little, we laughted real hard, and I got a helmet in my face real hard... Yeah... the things we do for derby...  third time this week I gotten a really hard hit to my nose, I think they are after my nose!

I just seem to be cursed with injuries latley, I might not have mentioned this before, but two weeks ago I fell of a bardisk dancing, and my leg/foot has been a mess ever since. We been taping it so I can skate on it, sort of was needed for the Rainy City game.. yikes... 

STRD at Ung08 in Kungsan

The past two days you could find Stockholm Rollerderby chilling in Kungsträdgården at the youth festival called Ung08, we offered for youth and whoever wanted to try to skate and even had a jamskating coach from London, UK over.

Me myself are still limping after an unfortunate fall from a bardisk a few weeks ago, so the team has ordered me to rest, so I got to watch all the other amazing people do their best....

Lorraine Roberts from London Skate Crew teaching moves

All ages showed up to try skates on

Our star jammer can jamskate as well

Stupis kids smoking by our flag... 

Off skate with Kimizooka

I am still limping and feeling sorry for myself...I still kept up with the other two... I am never hurt, so it's really weird that my leg is healing so slow and I have to be careful at all times... VERY frustrating... Kim is really awesome with running off-skate, I'm sore days after her work-outs... and I like it that way, why work out if you aren't going to give it you 100%... I am also starting to hang out more and more with Kim, and she is a delightful person, superfun to hang out with and awesome and motivating to work out with!

Kimizooka and Alpha Whisky... halfway thorugh...

I don't mind waiting when I can look at this

Back from Rainy City

It's important to warm up before bout...

The team after the bout

We did so great - I am s proud of every player - each one of us! We played so well and it was a tight game, and we poured our souls and sweat into it! Becky and Twisted did a great job on the bench - and we loved to have them there. I will write more tomorrow... we might not have won the bout... but we for sure won the afterparty...

Packing - washing - leaving for airport

This year I was supposed to do less traveling, it did not really work out like that, I just done different traveling. I've travelled less for coaching and more for my own selfish rollerderby pleasure, and that is sad and fun at the same time. I love coaching, but at the same time I miss to just skate for my own damn sake and learn from others...

What to pack? does those look like Stockholm to you?

Still, this weekend Stockholm is playing Rainy City, and they have their venue right outside Manchester, a new travel first... so I'm once again washing and packing and getting ready for another airport ride to Arlanda to get on another flight. Airports has sort of lost their charm, but at the same time I have a special love for them.
So I have to remember passport, flight confirmation, the few pounds I have left from last trip, skates, pads, armbands, boutshirt, something to cover the ass up.. .what... hm.... boardshorts, hotpants, skorts, jeaggings? I miss packing with Loony - she is so much better at this than I am... I probably will finish packing about 10 mins before I have to leave for the airport... oh, I need to bring line-ups and my helmet too... ugh... what else... does everything fit in my backpack? Do I need more than one pair of shoes? If only one pair of shoes... converse or Nike?
Will it be sunny? Or will it rain? Should I bring a jacket? Wheels? What wheels should I bring? Stingers? Will they be to grippy? Should I stick with G-rods? I do like slide... ugha!
Oh, and painkillers, since I had an incident the other day... Kimizooka our new girl, who now is mine and Beckys Bro and personal trainer has given me some... oh...
I love to go on team trips... this is gonna be exciting.. .except from all those choices and the packing... ahhhh....

Forward, forward, forward

Live to forgive but never to forget, living life in the fast lane, is this who I am? It might be a part of me, and I am very happy to let it be a part of me. I am no longer young nor am I old, I'm at that age where I think I am happy to be. Can I stay here? Frozen in a motion, rage in a hillerious dress and with a mission to push the envelope of life? Do I wanna stay here? Do I?

I don't want to be frozen in a motion, I want to finish my stride, I want to continue out of the picture, I want to reach new goals that I am to set for myself.

Recently becomming single has left me with a feeling of emptiness, after two years of intense company I'm like a little kid left in a candystore. There are all those delicious things around me, but at the same time it's scary and lonly and I miss that hand I'm so used to be holding.

 Bittersweet.... i do like sour and sweet candy... is there any correalation?

 I guess I will just start snacking on some candy, fall off some more bars, get some bruises, cry some more and go on more spontanious trips...

 A friend just texted and asked me: Berlin?
And I answered: When?

Happy Pride on and off skates...

Husse, me, Becky, Kim and Enoc being pretty...

Dress to success... This year we were quite a bunch in the Stockholm Pride Parade - it for soem reason always makes my eyes water a little, right before the parade starts... when I look around at all those people that are just like me, and so different. But we are all proud for what we are, and we are allowed to stand up for ourselves and our friends and all those that can't. I am very lucky to be born in Sweden, and I am very lucky to have such a caring family and circle of friends.
Being different, just hte slightest is not easy at all teh times, but being different is not a bad thing, we are all uniqe!
But a big thanks to my friends who made this Pride so amazing and fun... I have had dinners, pre-parties, mellow nights, crazy sweaty dancing and crazy colorful rolling parade-time... each one of you my friends are making my life worth living.

Variety of Swedish Leauges represented... Rollerderby rules!

Just à few photos from Rollercon!

Just a little selection of what happened this weekend...

I call him Hans, and he's my German male alterego

Kacey loves me and Jackie

Don't know what the thing might be...

Jamming for the beer team

Shortbus crept between the Amazon legs

Vagine Regime trying to beat up on the straight people... 

Totally beaten up in Vegas

Oh, RollerCon you hurt so good! I'm so beat up after playing 3 full-lenght bouts and about 6 halfbouts..
Yeah... Today I have one mini-challenge and then I'm all about the pool and watching some derby! Yeah! Gonna be great!

Jamming 

Blocking

Vegas Baby, Vegas...

Oh, detta ställe.... Rollercon 2012 - helt fantastiskt!

Life is not only about rollerderby

Pappa Swede

Me getting to drive the boat....

Stockholm by summer is what makes my heart beat faster

I love my wife

Smashed is smashed after a few beers

Vagine Regime Nördic

Loony printed it for us... 

RollerCon 2012

Yeah - so - yeah

I was nt planning on going to RollerCon this year either, since I was gonna be home and chill, maybe go camping, maybe a roadtrip...
Things never really go as you plan them...

So - yeah - so

I am going to RollerCon 2012 - I am sharing a room with Jackie Daniels... last time I did it Mark the Shark told me I looked like I was gonna make mistakes... yeah... I will try not to wake them up with a bucket of Bloody Marys... I am focused on derby... and derby only... and my friends... and maybe just one or tow bloody marys... on the Sunday! mkey...

When it gets wet - derby still goes on...

So one of the bouts got cut a little short because of a sudden and intense rain - but that did not stop the DJ's from continuing to play - not did it stop us from dancing. When dancing became a little less exxiting we returned to the track... off-skate but still blocking and playing the game... it lasted for a jam... we might have been six black and two white people on the track... and it was a little confusing to determine the jammer...

Really - slippery when wet!

And then we danced some more - until we had a need for dry clothes and then we watched derby baby and went to Jalla Jalla and had the best falafel in Crime City! I love Malmö, I really do - but I love Stockholm just a little more! 

Derbyfestival in Malmö

This weekend was so full of things that I don't even know where to begin, not at all... we fun we had sun, and rain, and skated, and skated, and ate too little, got weird tans, wore to big bout shirts and to small hotpants. I got kissed and sun kissed and I smiled, a lot!

Vagine Regime Nordic played our first bout against Crime City Rollers A-team and the Swedish Meatwalls won against all the other contries until yesterday in the final - when we ended up with a draw against the Finns... 92 - 92

It was a really amazing weekend with dancing in the rain, hanging out with amazing people and lots and lots of skating... and I can't complain about getting to bout too much - even if I now (and yesterday) suffer from a real bad cold and some bruises...

Thanks to everyone that made this happen, I know it was really hard work! 

Dancing in the rain

Spending the weekend in Malmö at an amazing derby festival!

Sometimes I forget why I love derby so much - and today made me remember!

Our bout was cut short because of rain, and instead of crying we ended up having a danceparty in the rain!

I probably will be sick tomorrow and regret bouncing up and down for 1 hour in the rain... But it was worth it.. The sun was shining and the rain poring down, the music poring and a bunch of awesome girls dancing and life just felt quite perfect...

Team USA vs. Team Sweden

It will happen - first weekend in September! Team Sweden will be playing Team USA in Helsinki... Oh yeah baby! I am superduper excited about it! 

Derby did not do it to me

It just happened when I was driving... 

Practice outdoor during the summer

Outdoor ice-rink without ice becomes our summer place...

We are not that many at the practice sessions during this summer, mostly 8-12 people, but we are still having the best fun ever. I learn something new everytime and the sweat is drippnig from my knees. Fisti Cuffs used to make fun of my sweaty knees... I have very sweaty knees in the summer... soaked kneepads and socks... MMMmmMmmmm I am SO attractive!