yay!

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Derby was really fun tonight.

I am starting to suck a little less at push-ups.

I need to skate lower and hold my arms in when I hit.
I made a few girls fall over. It's quite satisfying.

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[nibblesonwords.livejournal.com]

I made a few girls fall over. It's quite satisfying.

yay!

[harfang.livejournal.com]

I've been wondering about this for a while. There are a couple of specific ways that PTSD still affects me. The main one is, if I feel a more-than-jostling physical impact and I didn't see it coming, I get enraged or I start sobbing or I go fetal. My main annoyance about this has been that I really want to mosh when I go to shows. But I've started to envy y'all derby girls, too.

Do you know anyone in roller derby who has to deal with this? Are there ways that women get ready for what derby entails, if they're not used to contact sports?

[harfang.livejournal.com]

And now for something people might actually want to read on this subject:

I was just at Ragstock taking advantage of their Halloween 50% off sale; if anyone likes clothes that you think Ragstock would consider Halloween material, you've got a couple of days to get over there. So at the Warehouse, they've got racks with signs that say "retro," "vintage," and some themes. There's a rack there called "Roller Girl." I shit you not. This sport gets almost no mainstream media coverage (though that's changing) and it's becoming hip, or what have you.

To me this is further evidence that Dubya's reign has given us one thing: genuine subculture. More importantly though, we have a women's contact sport that people fucking respect.