♥ Lost: My Roller Derby Virginity ♥

♥ So on Saturday night I saw my first ever live roller derby bout. It was the Wellington league's Richter City Shakedown: Stop Drop and Roll.
Being the huge nerds we are, we got there right when the doors opened so we managed to get seats in the front row so the view was brilliant!

Now Richter City Roller Derby was established in 2007, and has been growing in popularity since then. In 2009 they sold a little over 4,000 tickets to the three bouts, which was impressive enough, but this year there was close to that in the crowd at the first bout alone. IMPRESSED MUCH!

Leopard print clad Smash Malice were playing to defend there title from last year against the "disgraced beauty queens", the hot pink wearing, Brutal Pageant. Because we had yet to watch a live game my friends and I had to quickly decide on a team to support, so, because they were the underdogs, we picked Brutal Pagent and away we went.

The game was amazing to watch, turning me and all of my friends (who usually don't enjoy sport) into screaming fangirls, and by the end of the night we had lost our voices.


The jammers were all amazing, with my favourite players of the night being Perky Nah Nah and Suffer Jet, but all the ladies playing were impressive and inspirational. It was a very close game, with quite a few penalties meaning that there were a few (power jams?) where there was only one jammer on the track picking up ALOT of points. The final score was an impressive 103 to 125 to Brutal Pageant, and the crowd loved it.

So the next bout is September 4th, so it looks like another trip down to Wellington then. ♥

♥ Newbie Sk8er + Beadaholic ♥

♥♥♥ So, I attended my first roller derby practice yesterday with the Bay City Rollers (http://tiny.cc/ze0un) and it was both enjoyable and grueling. As I have never skated before It will still be a LONG time till I am practicing with the derby girls, so I spent the entire practice down one end of the warehouse (along with another newbie) to practice getting my balance while skating, and will probably be there for another few weeks at least. Next week my goal is to be able to learn how to turn on the skates, and to practice stopping properly.

I had two big tumbles in front of everybody (embarrassing, but it happens to everyone) and I lost track of how many times I fell over while practicing by myself, but I had my knee pads on so I was good. Because my skates are so horrible (One of the girls said that it looked like they had a twisted axle or something like that) I have to use one of the spare pairs until I get my own, and getting used to new skates takes a bit. But it was good and everyone there is very friendly and encouraging. Hopefully in a few weeks time I will be able to practice with the girls, and maybe I will be ready for the start of the season this time next year (fingers crossed). Until then, I will struggle along and try not to give up (because catching up with the others might take a while, and I am usually the type of girl who tends to give up easily). But I am enjoying watching the other girls, I just can't wait until I am good enough to play with them. ♥♥♥

Also, just a little side note: I am going into Napier of Wednesday to buy more supplies to make more clips (YAY!) so I shall spend my time between then and Jenni arriving furiously making clips (so how much should I sell them for on trade me? should I sell them as singles or in pairs? HELP please).


And FINALLY While I was visiting my Grandmother on Saturday I found that she was using the most adorable silver charms on some of her bracelets (she makes VERY beautiful jewelery, I will post a blog about some of her stuff one day). They are cute little pistols! Even though she had used all hers up, she told me where I could order some of my own. Now its a kiwi site so postage will be cheap, and it is only $4 for 10 pistols (40cents each, what the hells that's so cheap!). However she is out of stock :( so as soon as they are in stock I am going to buy two sets and turn them into earring (and I know what I want them to look like!) so I am going to post a link to this site for any one who is interested in crafty stuff like me: http://www.beadaholic.co.nz