Sunday, August 30, 2009

roller derby

last night baldman and i went to watch our first every roller derby game (or bout as they call them). it was so fantastic! we saw our local team, the columbia quad squad versus the nrv from virginia. man, those are some tough girls. we took a few picts but they're not the most clear because of the constant action. but check it out!

the columbia quadsquad roller girls vs nrv
the columbia quad squad are in black and nrv in pink. in this pict you can see the girl with the red helmet sneaking up the outside of the lane. she's what they call the jammer (and she's on the quad squad). she'll score points for her team if she passes opposing players. boy, was she a zippy little woman!

roller derby
this is pretty much what it looked like the whole time. just a blur.

watching the pack go round the track at roller derby
it's actually a fairly complicated game. you see the number of referees that are out there? it really takes some careful watching to see who is illegally hitting each other and how many people the jammers are passing.

nrv's jammer passing the blockers
here you can see the opposing team's jammer (with the star on her helmet) sneaking by.

the quad squad took the game. i think they have a pretty good record. but someone in the crowd told us that the other local team, the richland county regulators are better. we'll just have to check that out ourselves. i definitely think that the hubby and i will check out more games in the future.

3 comments:

Erica said...

How cool that it is in a gymnasium!
When you come to Chicago (hint hint), we'll take you to a Windy City Rollers game--it's in an arena and there's beer!

Anonymous said...

It's not actually a gymnasium... its a huge venue that holds CQS's near 1,000 fan base that ritually come to every bout. And they also serve beer and tailgate in the parking lot. i'd be excited to see the windy city rollers if i ever make it that way.

Anonymous said...

you may be disappointed when you go to see that other columbia team (the regulators)... they've played cqs three times in the past 18 months and lost every time by an average margin of more than 50 points each time... in fact, the last time the two teams played, they were losing 40-0 at one point! and their venue doesn't really match up either... but you should definitely check it out for yourself.