Rule Review
By Mac The Ripper, MADE Certified Head Referee What is 20 Feet? Remember 20 feet is from the pack. The pack is defined as 3 players from one team and 2 from another — not 20 feet from the front-most group. If the 3 and...
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Team Puerto Rico:
As the best-of-the-best from the U.S. women’s team prepare for possible world-domination, we’ll be highlighting one skater at a time for the week’s leading to the October 13th match up. We’ll also begin introducing you to Team Puerto Rico, those fiesty-speed demons who hope to...
IT’S COLOSSAL COASTAL ROLLER EXPO TIME!!!
A look back at 2011, and a look forward to this year’s CCRE by Mos Deathly, CCRE Chair My favorite time of year is here again. It seems like it was just yesterday when we were all braving Hurricane Irene, evacuating Wildwood, and invading...
Track Setup
By Swelshie, Certified Head Ref, Chesapeake Roller Derby Laying the Track (two-person job) Before laying the track, check the floor for water spots, grease spots, etc. Try to put the track in an area that avoids as many of these obstacles as possible. Find four...
Wheelstock Registration Open!
Wheelstock: The grooviest 24-hour skate experience this side of 1969! Strap on your skates, roll up your air mattress and pack your duct tape, it’s the first ever Wheelstock! Hosted by Chesapeake Roller Derby and MADE, it’s your opportunity to skate and play overnight with...
MADE Reffing 101
By Walker D. Plank, Chesapeake Roller Derby (Class 1 M.A.D.E. Member League) Foreword by Mos Deathly, Certified Head Ref While it is possible to ref a game with as few as three strong referees (two Jammers and one Head Ref), we don’t recommend it. Outside...
Rookie Tournament added to Wheelstock 2012
Dec. 19, 2011 — Class III leagues get your rookie teams ready; a Rookie Tournament has been added to Wheelstock’s already aggressive 2012 schedule. The overnight lockin at the Shipley Arena in Westminster, MD, May 19-20, will feature 24 hours of skating, clinics and now...
The Truth About Co-Ed Derby
The Truth About Coed Derby by Rhea CycleHer, Single Handed Roller Derby (Arizona) As a member of a coed derby league, I am often confronted with female skaters who are a hundred percent positive that they would never want to skate on a coed...
The MADE Derby World Witnesses its First All-Star Derby Proposal
The MADE Derby World Witnesses its First All-Star Derby Proposal Interview by Staff Write, El Pony PicanteVIEW THE PROPOSAL BY CLICKING LINK Derby history was made a second time last weekend at the Colossal Coastal Roller Expo at the Drexel Armory in Philadelphia. Not only...
The Future is Here: Skater’s take on Co-ed Derby.
The Future is Here Written by Rhea CycleHer (Single Handed Roller Derby-Arizona) Rhea started skating four years ago with OC Rollergirls and then co-founded South Coast Roller Derby in San Clemente, CA. After moving to Arizona, Rhea found a new derby family with Single Handed...
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