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Excellent OP. Anyone who is lucky enough to be within driving distance of some roller derby should get off their asses and go. A few friends of mine play in the local league (Canadian prairie and my city is only ~200,000 so you can probably find it almost anywhere) so I go and watch them play. The game can get borderline raunchy, which is awesome. All the girls pick derby names like Clinty Gang Grenous that they go by and can also get pretty intense with the costumes/persona they adopt in-game. I've been to a few of the after parties and let me just say that any rep derby girls get for being crazy is pretty much spot on. Like I say, it is awesome. Plus it is actually an exciting sport. Derby is pretty heavily trained - each member has to consistently pass a set of benchmarks before they can even play in a real bout. Otherwise it is just practice, practice, practice. This makes for bouts of fairly high competence as well. If the girl is actually on the track it means she knows what she's doing out there. Stickarts fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Oct 14, 2010 |
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It would be a shame if derby went vanilla. Bouts are fun enough as it is, but so much is expressed through the attire that derby really is set apart from other sports. Part of what makes derby so enticing as a fan and, I can't help but imagine, as a player is the entire cult of culture behind it.
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