INTROLLER DERBY

I guess I’ve tried to blog before and, it’s never really worked out…but personally I think its because I haven’t found the one thing I’m passionate about now, however I think I have. Let me start of by saying I’m not the sportiest person in the word, I’ve never supported a football team, the same goes for rugby or really any team biased sport; so as you can maybe guess I’m not the fittest person in the world either! So i’m pretty lucky I’ve found a sport that works for me and, Roller Derby isn’t really for the faint hearten!

How did I find Derby? In ever fat kids wet dream, Ace of cakes (need I say anymore? Even thinking about it is putting into a diabetic coma…and I’m not even Diabetic!) in late August and, they’d fashioned this amazing cake in the shape of a skate for a roller derby skate and, what can I say. The mixture of cake and fast paced carnage must have peeked an interest, and it had nothing to do about the girls skating around sparkly pants…no, really I’m 100% homoawesome so it was probably partly dude to the sparkly pants. Anyway, at this point I wasn’t even sure if there even was a roller derby team in the town I live so I did the next best thing, I know we have this great thing called the interwebs but it didn’t occur to me at the time to look, I bought Whip It and watched it way to much.

I’m aware as a guy I don’t have vagina and couldn’t actually PLAY Roller Derby but I was hooked, so later that week I got searching on the net and apparently, we had a Roller Derby league in the UK and even better…there was team close to me. I instantly emailed them figuring it was worth a shot to ask if I could help out. At this point I should probably tell you I’m one of the most socially awkward person in the world, I’m the kind of guy that’ll say one or two sentences to you and walk away out of sheer panicked awkwardness; so for me to do anything like this, yes it was only and email but I was panicked out my mind, it was a big deal. As it turns out they could train me up to become a Zebra Boy, that’s a referee in standard sporting terms but there’s really nothing standard about Roller Derby.