Hey, we won! We avenged the loss on the banked track on Leet’s birthday! I spent five minutes in the penalty box (which is really really weird for me)! And it was fun! My parents came to the hangar for the first time to watch, and at halftime, they pointed out how much time I’d [...]
Posts Tagged ‘banked track’
Break Neck Betties 250, Tilted Thunder All Stars 89
Posted in Derby, tagged banked track, Betties, retirement, Rose City Rollers, summer, sweatiness, tilted thunder on August 6, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Post #100
Posted in Derby, My super fun activities, tagged AOA, banked track, beers, besterns, big 5, Fresh Meat, Roller derby, rollerpalooza, shenanigans, summer, tournaments, wftda, WOJ on December 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Go, little blog, go! Since I started this blog I: Watched WOJ kick ass at WFTDA Westerns Attended WFTDA Championships in Denver Got my ass handed to me on the banked track Bouted flat track against the Rocky Mountain Contenders, Rainy City, Rat City Rain of Terror, and Treasure Valley Won the Bitchiest Bettie award [...]
Frisky’s First Banked Bout
Posted in Derby, My super fun activities, tagged banked track, roller derby is glamorous, tilted thunder on November 21, 2011 | 3 Comments »
We survived! This pretty much sums up how it went for me: So, in short, it did not go so hot. At least points-wise. We lost by a lot of them. As the bout went on, I actually kind of got the hang of things and was able to hit people, and overall it was pretty [...]
Five things I didn’t fully realize about banked track
Posted in Derby, tagged banked track, heartbreakers, Rose City Rollers, scrimmage on November 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
1. You nail someone against the rail and…they don’t go anywhere. In fact, they can just drop down and be gone. Or you have to keep running up to hit them again. 2. When you fall down, you slide off. You have to angle your body sideways and put your toestops down to make sure [...]


