Today I put my skates on and took part in the new intake for my league. This time a year ago my doctor was encouraging me to apply for a blue badge for disabled parking. I’m proud of my achievement … Read more
The Louisey Rider Cup – the low down
The Louisey Rider Cup is only a day away, folks! With is in mind, the peeps at NRD wanted to give you all ‘the skinny’ about the chain of events on this most awesome day ! In short, there are … Read more
The Louisey Rider Cup – Let’s Celebrate
With only one week to go, Nottingham Roller Derby have invested an incredible amount of time, energy and love into creating the most sparkly, most fun, most roller derby, most raucous (well, the afterparty at least !) event our community … Read more
Cherry Popping
So you’ve passed min skills! Now what? After a long, hard slog through minimum skills, it’s finally time to get out there and put those skills to the test on track. Which all sounds awesome until you realise you actually … Read more
Taking the Grey- International Women’s Day
In celebration of International Women’s Day, Nottingham Roller Derby are opening their doors and inviting you to find out more about the fastest growing sport in Europe! International Women’s Day is a great opportunity to celebrate and Nottingham Roller Derby … Read more
Kit Up!
We love a good debate about kit; with so much to choose from and so many different variables how can you ever know what’s the best? How would you even begin to define what the best kit is? We can … Read more
Improving your skills
Your learning isn’t over when you’ve finished your Fresh Meat course, in fact it’s only really beginning. In this blog Circle Jerk gives some simple suggestions on how you can improve your skate and game skills. Read more
Heart-shaped Blocks
We like to try and keep things topical at NRD so we asked the league members who they had a *crush on in the world of roller derby, (and by crush we kind of meant those people who our league … Read more
NRD goes Winter Warrior
This weekend members of Nottingham Roller Derby will take in the X-Runner’s Winter Warrior obstacle race. Read more
NRD wraps up 2015
In early December 2015 I was proudly elected chair of Nottingham Roller Derby and hit the ground running due to the phenomenal work The Ruth Hurts had done before me. Read more