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There are two ways to join the league:
Recruitment: Recruitment is for those who have little to no skating experience. It starts with a recruitment meeting where you learn general information about the
league. You join with a group of other interested skaters and start learning the basic ground work of skating, speed skating, agility, endurance, flat track roller derby rules,
hitting, blocking, etc. Skaters who improve quickly will be moved ahead in training faster than those who don’t. Generally, this is the way skaters join the league. There
are only 3 to 4 recruitment opportunities per year.
Try Outs: Try outs are for skaters who are already good skaters or have skated derby before. You have to pass 70% of the WFTDA’s minimum skill requirements to
begin skating with the league. These can be found on WFTDA’s web site, www.wftda.com under “official rules”, Appendix A. Try outs are scheduled through RollaRella at
rollarella@slaughterhousederbygirls.com. Your try out will consist of a short interview and will include the skating skills test. You must have skates or arrange to borrow
skates from one of the other skaters. These are done year-round.
Season: Our season runs from Feb 1-Dec 15. This is a year-round commitment.
Time: We have two, two hour practices per week. These are scheduled at night after 8 pm. Attendance is kept and there is an attendance requirement in order
to bout. In addition to practice, there will be open skate times available. These are optional, but the more you skate, the better you will be! Also, every skater must be an
active, contributing member of at least one committee. This can take anywhere from an additional 2-15 hours per week. We also have fundraisers, community events,
etc. where we need skaters, but you are not required to attend every one.
Money: Below is a general chart of what you will need and the cost.
Low High
Annual fee (once per year) $40 $40
Monthly fee (once per month) $40 $40
USARS membership (once per year) $55 $40
Skates $100 $500
Pads $20 $100
Helmet $30 $50
Mouthguard $2 $200 (custom)
Total to get started $272 $970
Feeling the joy of being a derby girl……priceless……
If you have any more questions, please e mail us at: admin@slaughterhousederbygirls.com
This is how it's going to be.
Twice a week and sometimes more, you're going to drive to a roller rink that's 30 minutes away, often straight from work or straight from home early on a Sunday morning, as you
reminisce about Sunday mornings in your previous life when you got to sleep in.
When you get to the rink, you do some warm-up exercises, which you actually find to be sort of a relief after sitting at your desk all day. Then you pull on your pads, lace up your
skates, strap on your helmet and pop in your mouthguard as the coach barks at you to get back out onto the floor. After a few leisurely laps around the rink, the whistle blows and you
dive into an endurance drill, skating hard for a minute, then at half-speed for a minute, for about 15 minutes.
Never has 15 minutes seemed so long. After a while, your shins ache. Your skates feel like blocks of cement on your feet. Your nose runs. Your head throbs under your helmet. You
start to gag on your mouthguard. You feel dizzy. And no matter how fast you're skating, someone always seems to be skating faster than you.
After the whistle blows, you skate one more lap and collapse onto the floor, stretching out your aching limbs. You gulp down some water and get back out onto the floor, falling in with
one of two teams. For the next hour, you will skate around in circles some more, either trying to plow through a pack of skaters who are trying to knock you over, or trying to knock over
other skaters yourself. Often, you will feel your skates fly out from under you and you'll fall on your knees, or go sliding across the floor on your side, or do a full-on belly flop, as you try
to keep someone else from skating over your fingers or kicking you in the head.
But you will get back up and do it all over again, for the rest of that practice, and the next one, and the next one. You do it because there's nothing so thrilling as when you break
through the pack or send another skater flying to shouts of encouragement and applause from your teammates. You do it because you want to prove to yourself that you can do it, and
get better at it. You do it because you are helping to make history as one of thousands of women across the country reviving a sport that was all but dead until just a few years ago.
And you do it because even when you're so sore, bruised and broken that you feel like you're about to die, nothing makes you feel more alive.
posted by Lauren Bishop
Twice a week and sometimes more, you're going to drive to a roller rink that's 30 minutes away, often straight from work or straight from home early on a Sunday morning, as you
reminisce about Sunday mornings in your previous life when you got to sleep in.
When you get to the rink, you do some warm-up exercises, which you actually find to be sort of a relief after sitting at your desk all day. Then you pull on your pads, lace up your
skates, strap on your helmet and pop in your mouthguard as the coach barks at you to get back out onto the floor. After a few leisurely laps around the rink, the whistle blows and you
dive into an endurance drill, skating hard for a minute, then at half-speed for a minute, for about 15 minutes.
Never has 15 minutes seemed so long. After a while, your shins ache. Your skates feel like blocks of cement on your feet. Your nose runs. Your head throbs under your helmet. You
start to gag on your mouthguard. You feel dizzy. And no matter how fast you're skating, someone always seems to be skating faster than you.
After the whistle blows, you skate one more lap and collapse onto the floor, stretching out your aching limbs. You gulp down some water and get back out onto the floor, falling in with
one of two teams. For the next hour, you will skate around in circles some more, either trying to plow through a pack of skaters who are trying to knock you over, or trying to knock over
other skaters yourself. Often, you will feel your skates fly out from under you and you'll fall on your knees, or go sliding across the floor on your side, or do a full-on belly flop, as you try
to keep someone else from skating over your fingers or kicking you in the head.
But you will get back up and do it all over again, for the rest of that practice, and the next one, and the next one. You do it because there's nothing so thrilling as when you break
through the pack or send another skater flying to shouts of encouragement and applause from your teammates. You do it because you want to prove to yourself that you can do it, and
get better at it. You do it because you are helping to make history as one of thousands of women across the country reviving a sport that was all but dead until just a few years ago.
And you do it because even when you're so sore, bruised and broken that you feel like you're about to die, nothing makes you feel more alive.
posted by Lauren Bishop
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