LRR vs RCRG

What? Name to Be Confirmed

Who? LRR vs RCRG

Where? York Hall, London

When? May 15th 2010, 4pm - 7.30pm

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ARRG's Twisted Thistles go Deutsch!!

When? Saturday 19th June, 7pm-9pm

Where? Sport Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

The Auld Reekie Roller Girls Twisted Thistles, take a trip across the channel and through the perilous French countryside through to Germany to meet the fantastic Stuttgart Valley Roller Girlz on track for the first time ever!

Although both teams were present at Roll Britannia in London last summer, the way the drawings and results went meant that sadly they never got to meet on track. The horror!!

Come and support ARRG in their derby adventures on Saturday 19th June in Stuttgart, Germany. What better excuse do you need to have a weekend in Germany?! Just think of all that skating, German beer and brattwurst :) Mmmmmm, delicious protein!

Doors open at 7pm, bout starts at 7:30pm. Ticket information will follow as soon as we receive it. In the meantime, check out both teams websites!

http://www.arrg.co.uk
http://www.rollergirlz.de/en/

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See you in Europe!
(gulp!)

FYI stuff...

Airlines flying to Stuttgart:
http://www.flybe.com/
http://www.klm.com/
http://www.britishairways.com/

Accommodation:
http://www.alex30-hostel.com/
 This is where ARRG are staying!
http://www.inter-hostel.com/

Venue website:
http://www.sportstuttgart.de/cms/iwebs/default.aspx

Carnival of the Strange Round-Up

Saturday 21st November 2009 saw Lincolnshire Bombers host the Carnival of the Strange! 


Doors opened at 1pm, and Newark Show Ground looked like you had just fallen down the rabbit hole and ended up in Wonderland. The children’s area was filled with all the retro kiddie treats we loved from our own childhoods - face painting, hook a dook, hoopla and giant size confectionary. This was a true Roller Derby celebration with acts, performers, burlesque, bands and stalls with allsorts of skating goodies plus the highlight of the day live Roller Derby Action!

The two teams were made up with skaters from across the country - Lincolnshire Bombers, Auld Reekie Roller Girls, Central City Roller Girls, Glasgow Roller Girls, Leeds Roller Dolls, Middlesbrough Milk Rollers, Sheffield Steel Rollergirls, Rainy City Roller Girls, Rebellion Roller Girls and Royal Windsor Rollergirls!

Considering these player had little time to practice together, they kept their eyes on the prize and pushed forward in unity. Jammers took off from the line like they were shot from a cannon, and there was some spectacular blocking going on, which cleared the way for Jammers to skip through the pack time and time again. The girls gave 100% and were unyielding in there task to become “Queen of the Carnival”. 


 “The Children of the Damned” were triumphant, managing to improve dramatically on their first half lead with final scores of


Children of the Damned 196 : Las Ninas Muertas 63    


MVP Children of the Damned - CCR's Hustle'her

May-Q Dizzy

Love Smack!

Valentine's Day looks like it's gonna be busy weekend in the UK Roller Derby Calendar!
First GRG and LRR announced Withering Hits (formally CasaBlockYa), and now Lincolnshire Bombers have announced a Valentine's bout against Middlesbrough Milk Rollers.

Who? Lincolnshire Bombers vs Middlesbrough Milk Rollers

When? Saturday February 13th, 2pm - 5pm

Where? Newark Showground

Tickets - Will be available Early January

More Info - FACEBOOK / www.lincolnshire-bombers.com

Withering Hits!

Who? Glasgow Roller Girls vs London Rockin' Rollers

When? Saturday February 13th 2010, 1pm - 4 pm

Where? The Arc Sports Centre, Glasgow

Glasgow Roller Girls  presents a Valentine's weekend themed Roller Derby bout against London Rockin' Rollers

GRG and LRR have met a couple of times before and GRG have come out on top both times, but LRR have been training hard and are fresh out of a well deserved win against Birmingham Blitz Dames (BBD), so this promises to be a good fight!

Come along and see the action - there'll also be the usual merch, raffles, food and fun to keep even those with the shortest attention span entertained!

Rainy City Rollergirls on Manchester News's A-Z of Sport

Also check out the ACCOMPANYING ARTICLE in the paper, well done on the coverage girls!

War of the Roses Reminder

Leeds Roller Dolls' Rotten Rollers vs Rainy City Roller Girls

THIS SATURDAY (28th November)

3pm to 5.30 pm

Armitage Sports Centre
Moseley Road
Fallowfield
Manchester
M14 6HE

A bout NOT to be missed. On their home turf the fearless Rainy City Rollergirls are going to take on Leeds Roller Dolls, Rotten Rollers!

Tickets are now on sale now at www.rcrg.co.uk or by email info@rcrg.co.uk
Adult £6, Concession £4 and under 5s free!!!

There will be an after party straight after the bout at The Gin Club in Fallowfield just a few mins walk from the Armitage Center at 310 Wilmslow Rd, Fallowfield, M14 6XQ

Fightmare Before Christmas ....

Scores on the doors from yesterday's bout ....

London Rockin' Rollers - 179  :  Birmingham Blitz Dames - 61

Congrats LRR .... write-up to follow soon

Winter Wonderslam!

Who? Ultraviolent Femmes (LRG) vs Steam Rollers (LRG)

When? December 5th 5pm - 8pm

Where? Tottenham Leisure Centre, 1 Philip Lane, Tottenham, London

MORE INFO

London Rollergirls are back ....

With the first bout of their second league season. Last season the Steam Rollers and Ultraviolents ended up watching the Suffra Jets take the league championship - so this time they both have something to prove, and they have some new team members to help with the effort.

Who will start off with a bang and a win? Be there to see the hard-hitting roller derby action in person. Tickets will be for sale online soon

Carrie on Skating!

This weekend Glasgow Roller 'Ghouls' hosted - a special Hallowe'en frenzy full of tricks and treats!

Here's what El Toupee had to say about the event ....

In their debut bout, Maiden Grrders took on the Romsey Town Rollerbillies in what I can only presume was an officially 'unofficial' bout - two twenty-minute periods instead of the usual thirty-minute halves. That confusion aside, it was possibly the most exciting bout I've seen yet. The Grrders and Rollerbillies fought tooth and nail to a time-limit draw. Big Cat Merv did a sterling job of play-by-play commentary  and the crowd, were simply loving it, and not shy to let it be known! Following a Zebra Huddle ("Erm, what do we do?!") the bout went to an Overtime Jam, with Romsey eeking out by 3 points!

Special congratulations to Darmonatrix (Rollerbillies), who bagged Best Blocker and Best Take Down awards.

Oh, and did I mention there was ref on in-lines skates? For Shame!

I then settled in for the first half of the main event: Glasgow Roller Girls’ Irn Bruisers vs. the Rainy City Rollergirls. The Bruisers ranked third at Roll Britannia, and so it quickly became apparent that Rainy City were in for a hard time. I'm not going to sell them short: they fought hard, and pulled off some pretty neat stuff on track, but even when the Bruisers down to two players on track they couldn't quite get their groove on.

There was a lot of penalty box action - GRG regularly seemed to be playing short on track. Everyone must have racked up more than their fair share of Minors, but there was nothing (that the Zebras saw, at least) that suggested anyone was taking unfair advantages.

Rainy City were in with a chance when the bout re-started, having chipped away at their opponent's score with a series of powerplays, but the Bruisers stepped it up a notch. Rainy City's Mookchops and Dee-Mise deserve special mention, as does Feral Fairy, for gutting it out against the Bruisers' defense and putting more points on the board, but when you're skating up to Evel Von Detta (who's skating backwards whilst smack-talking you) and you've got Dreaded Dragon simply gliding around the track like she's on rails, then maybe it's too steep a mountain to climb.

The Irn Bruisers won convincingly, but Rainy City definitely punched above their weight for the first half. I'm sure the Leeds Roller Dolls were paying attention too - LRD travel to RCRG on November 28th.

Wakey Wheeled Cats - On a Roll

CLICK HERE to see the first video to accompany Linda Lumardy's online diary of life in the Wakey Wheeled Cats.   


Here's what she has to say so far ....


Welcome to On a Roll my online diary on life in the Wakey Wheeled Cats. I joined the league in August, after being sent to write a feature on the Cats for the Express women’s magazine.  From the first tentative roll I was hooked, and luckily they let me join! It took a while for me to get my skates and I’ve only been to a few practices so far, so you’ll be with me right from the beginning.  Hopefully it will be a good read, but if anything it should be a laugh, as I’ve already had some spectacular bruises, and there will be many more to come.  Rather than bombard you with a huge first blog, over the next few weeks I’ll keep uploading snippets about roller derby life to get you all up to date. But for the first day of  On a Roll, we have something very special for Wakey Wheeled Cats fans – our first ever training blog! Luckily for those of you who don’t like car-crash-telly, it doesn’t feature me, as I’m behind the camera, but instead Cats co-founder and coach Kirsty Quinn will be taking you through the basics of a roller derby game, and fellow co-founder Stephanie Sellers will be showing you a few beginners moves.
 I hope you enjoy it!  


Subscribe to the blog HERE , and if you have any comments for Linda, EMAIL her HERE .

Bout Announcement - LRG v Texas Rollergirls - Hustlers

Photo by Bill Smotrilla

The London Rollergirls have finally announced the identity of their secret opponents!  On March 20th, LRG will be hosting the Texas Rollergirls' Hustlers 

The Texas Rollergirls are widely regarded as the godmothers of women’s flat track roller derby being the original league that got it all going back in 2002. The Hustlers feature several members of the fearsome Texecutioners, the TXRG all-star team (ranked #1 in the WFTDA South Central region and heading to Nationals in November as one of the top four seeds) as well as a couple of girls who have been playing derby right since the start.  In fact, 'Babe Ruthless' the namesake of Ellen Page's character in the recent roller derby film Whip It! now skates for the Hustlers!

LRG are incredibly proud and excited to host them in London, and acknowledge this will be their toughest test yet.

More info to come soon regarding venue, ticket info and other exciting derby events happening that weekend, but for now, save the date… if you’re in the UK and you love derby, London is where you want to be that weekend

The Derby Zine needs your questions .....

.... about boutfits and bout make-up!

Regulars to The Round-Up Bout will remember me posting a link to a new Derby-zine.  One of the Zine's columnists, Hula Gunn of the London Rollergirls , has specially requested the help of Round-Up Bout readers.

Hulz wants your questions and queries for a column on derby boutfits and bout make-up.  If you or your league have any questions you want answered, then email Hula Gunn HERE

Jet Stepper xx

Cats in the Papers

Hey Cats and Kittens,

Wakey Wheeled Cats have a bit of exciting news we’d like to share with you!

Linda LuMardy, a new skater to our league, is using her journalistic wonderfulness to write an online weekly blog about becoming a roller derby girl. This will be accompanied by a monthly, three-minute video blog of The Wakey Wheeled Cats' training sessions.
Every month you can follow us from our humble beginnings, as we’re currently a very new league, through our beginners training and beyond, eventually up to playing bouts.

We would especially love for other leagues to get involved too!

Each month we’d like to have a guest skater or coach from a different league to hold a small training session, which will be filmed and shared for all to see. We hope for this to be built up from the very basics, past minimum skills assessments and into training drills. Hopefully this can promote not just our league, but other UK leagues and UK Roller Derby as a whole.

If you’re an interested league or skater, please get in touch, either on the WWC Facebook Page or HERE 

The blogs can be found on the Wakefield Express website and on our league website too.

This Friday, the 23rd October, will be the launch of the blogs. There will be an article in the Express, plus Linda’s first blog and our (first, shaky) video will be on the website .

Derby Love,

Fu-Quinn Hell

Royal Windsor Rollergirls Celebrate their Second Birthday

Last weekend saw the Royal Windsor Rollergirls celebrating their 2nd birthday with a closed bout against the Bedfordshire Roller Girls

The bout was a first for many of the girls skating, and despite a convincing win by RWRG, it sounds like everyone involved enjoyed themselves immensely.

Royal Windsor Rollergirls 168 vs Bedfordshire Roller Girls 60

If you were at the bout and would like to share your review, email Jet Stepper HERE.  Or if you'd like to join The Jetspuns, and regularly contribute to The Round-Up Bout, let Jet know.

LRR vs BBD Bout gets a name!!!

Earlier this week The Round-Up Bout told you about an upcoming bout in London next month, London Rockin' Rollers vs Birmingham Blitz Dames, and I'm proud to announce a rather fitting name for the pre-Christmas bout ....

A Fightmare Before Christmas!

When? Saturday 21st November, 4pm - 7.30pm

Where? York Hall, 5-15 Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, London

Keep an eye out HERE for more details

GRG and ARRG hit Scottish screens

CLICK HERE to watch Glasgow Rollergirls and Auld Reekie Roller Girls on STV's 'The Hour' with Stephen Jardine and Michelle McManus.  The GRG are on the sofa, and there are interviews and footage from ARRG's Hassle in the Castle bout (go to Part 3, after the guy with dreads)

Appeal to start a Cornish League!

Do you live anywhere near Cornwall?  

Interested in skating or Roller Derby?

A group of girls are keen to get their skates on in the Cornwall area ... if you think you can help, contact Louise here or go to the Facebook group.

New League Starting!

Nottingham Roller Girls are starting its very own Roller Derby league and we are looking for ladies to join the team and men and women to be coaches, referees and fans!

Roller Derby is a fast and frantic sport played by two teams on quad roller skates racing around a track trying to score the most points.

Whether you are an experienced skater or have never tried before, are completely unfit or a gym bunny why not come and join us. We will help you learn the skills you need and get you rolling in no time!

For more details click on the link above, see the Facebook page or email here

London Rockin' Rollers vs Birmingham Blitz Dames

The Birmingham Blitz Derby Dames will be heading down to London for some pre-Xmas derby action against the London Rockin' Rollers

When? November 21st, 4pm - 7.30

Where? York Hall, 5-15 Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, London

Need more info? CLICK HERE!