I am a child care provider. I work at an accounts payable at an insurance company.
It's really empowering. It feels good to play a contact sport and be feminine at the same time.
I like the athleticism about it. I like the friendships I've made. They're like my family.
You join us, you know, expecting to play a sport, but then you also realize that there's this awesome community of women
that all work together, have fun while doing it, and we just really bond together and push each other
so that, you know, we're always striving to be better athletes.
It's just a lot of fun.
I think that they like seeing women playing a rough sport, and just in their alter egos, a lot of people love like our derby names.
No, I'm not worried at all. I'd like for her to be adventurous, like her mama.
No, I'd love to see her do some of the princess, become more of a daredevil like her mama.
When you have on, like, your derby gear, you know, it makes you feel edgy. It makes you feel, I don't know, just tough.
No, I don't feel really hot, you know, and empowered, like, you know, sexy in football pads or a softball helmet.
When you play softball or whatever, you're just wearing tennis shoes. You're running, but like this, I mean, you're on wheels. You're rolling.
Any way you hit someone, you could snap your ankle like that. You could mess up your knee. You know what I mean?
So it's like the idea that you're, like, on skates, I think, kind of gives it its different edge.
Most people, when they think of roller derby, they think of how it was in the 70s on the bank track with, you know, the choreographed wrestling moves, you know, and all of that sort of stuff.
I think most people want to come see girls kicking each other's ass, pretty much.
I think when they hear roller derby, they envision just all of us pretty much brawling on roller skates.
But we get to, you know, put on skates and knock bitches on the ground.
It doesn't feel good to get hit by, like, a 200 pound girl.
I can take a hit. I can fall. You know, I have a pretty high pain tolerance, so it doesn't really bug me that much.
I'm just really afraid of getting sandwiched and, like, getting hurt that, like, I could never, ever roller skate again.
Every time I play, that's the biggest thing I'm worried about.
It's awesome. It is. It's awesome.
I think that it's the draw of being able to be, you know, a fucking badass.
Anybody can really play derby if they work really, really hard and they apply themselves and they have the support of a good week.
And it's exciting to watch.
I think that it's the greatest sport in the world.
