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Last Weekend saw the end of my first competitive season playing Roller Derby. My team The Norfolk Brawds played in Tier 4 of the Roller Derby British Championships, and in October we finished undefeated in our division, earning a place at the Play Offs to fight for promotion to Tier 3 next season. Which is…

Last Weekend saw the end of my first competitive season playing Roller Derby. My team The Norfolk Brawds played in Tier 4 of the Roller Derby British Championships, and in October we finished undefeated in our division, earning a place at the Play Offs to fight for promotion to Tier 3 next season. Which is…

2015 sees my Roller Derby league, The Norfolk Brawds, celebrating their fifth birthday. I’ve been with the league for 18 months, but long before I’d even heard of Roller Derby a bunch of girls with skates were getting together in a church hall to teach themselves the basics of Roller Derby. To celebrate this milestone…

2015 sees my Roller Derby league, The Norfolk Brawds, celebrating their fifth birthday. I’ve been with the league for 18 months, but long before I’d even heard of Roller Derby a bunch of girls with skates were getting together in a church hall to teach themselves the basics of Roller Derby. To celebrate this milestone…

So Saturday just gone I was headed off to Chelmsford to take part in my second ever public Roller Derby game. Unlike my first I’d been a vision of unconcerned calm all week. Maybe it was the fact that I had a few more scrims under my belt, or maybe it was the fact that…

So Saturday just gone I was headed off to Chelmsford to take part in my second ever public Roller Derby game. Unlike my first I’d been a vision of unconcerned calm all week. Maybe it was the fact that I had a few more scrims under my belt, or maybe it was the fact that…

Big thanks to those of you that posted calming things on my last post about preparing for my first Roller Derby Bout. Naturally none of it made any difference at all, and I spent much of last week alternating between extreme calmness and total panic. A Tuesday night practice scrim went really well and was…

Big thanks to those of you that posted calming things on my last post about preparing for my first Roller Derby Bout. Naturally none of it made any difference at all, and I spent much of last week alternating between extreme calmness and total panic. A Tuesday night practice scrim went really well and was…

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