While contemplating the idea of confronting fears, I asked a few of our league members to tell me about their derby fears, and how they hoped to overcome them. Read more

Lacking the basic equipment to become a roller girl, I signed up for the Brollers ‘Fresh Meat’ course. At 34 I’m not sure how fresh I am, I’ve certainly been left hanging for a while. On the plus side, with great age comes great wisdom; although not so great since the idea of getting on skates didn’t seem like a bad idea. We have the National Health Service, ‘it’ll be fine’. Read more

It felt like we had won the lottery when we managed to bag ourselves some Brawlgust tickets. Yip! We were determined to get awesome by osmosis; and with coaches such as Kami, Raw, Mainey and Rogue Runner, how could this not happen!? Read more

I’ve never been one for sports. In school, I couldn’t be bothered with fitness; I had better things to do. Football and the like left me cold. I dislocated my knee aged 15 and I was actually relieved that I wouldn’t have to do PE any more. So the idea that one day I would end up involved in any sport was unthinkable, if not downright hilarious. Read more

We would like to thank the roller derby community for all of the kind words, gestures and support you have given to us and Louise’s family over the past few weeks. Read more

It’s been an incredibly long journey from the NRG I joined in 2010, to where we are now. When we played our very first bout at Dodgebrawl back in 2011, we had very little concept of roller derby game-play and of what it took to be a good team on track as well as a fully functioning league. I remember jamming and realising that maybe I hadn’t quite thought this through… Read more

A Roller Derby Tribute To Du Maurier’s ‘Rebecca’ Read more