February 2012
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Newsletter! →
CCR take a trip to London town, check it out! →
Last time we had Tiger Bay, this time we have CCR of Birmingham! They take on Harbour Grudges as unbeaten UFs and SRs fight it out!
Earls Court 3rd March!
Peace Out! JL xxx
Anarchy: Euro Crash! →
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Bout Time! →
Unbeaten Steam Rollers take on unbeaten Ultraviolent Femmes.
And CCR take on the mighty Harbour Grudges!
London Brawling and London Brawl Saints TEAMS!
So we recently had a new draft with the following happy times occurring:
We’re pleased to announce the 2012 Q1 travel team squads:
London Brawling: Captain: Kamikaze Kitten (UF)
Vice Captain: Grievous Bodily Charm (SJ)
Crash Bandicute (SJ)
Flamin’ Aggro (SJ)
Fox Sake (SR)
Frightning Bolt (SR)
Hell Vetica Black (SJ)
Juicy Lucy (SR)
Knickerblocker Glory (HG)
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Weekend bouts! Scores!
Tiger Bay Brawlers came to London with amazing fans and some sweet skills. They kept the UFs to a nail biting close first half. In the second half however the UFs lead stretched and the final score was:
TBB 146-105 UFs
Next up the Suffrajets squared up to the Harbour Grudges. Both teams losing their season openers so this was an opportunity for all!
The Grudges took an astonishing lead - I...
Kami likes a good jump →
THIS. →
joy
Keep warm this weekend with HOT HOT HOT derby... →
You can't escape LRG today! →
Photo of the day AND video of the day.
I am pretty sure you can guess what the video is, but still, worth another watch eh?
January 2012
8 posts
Winnerrrrrrrsssss!
So Batter C Power battled to the end and came out victorious! They played two games with the following results:
Helsinki 100 BCP 148
Windsor 180 BCP 202
LRG would like to share these feelings:
WOOOOOOOOP
Well done all played and well done all involved - refs, NSOs, bout planners and nice people all round!
Batter C Power's FIRST international bout, TODAY →
As if wor Batter C couldn’t get enough of tournaments - their second tournament weekend in 3 weeks sees them take on neigbours Royal Windsor and Helsinki!
Helsinki played a big part in Finland’s impressive World Cup run so it will be interesting to see how the games pan out!
Parking and general FYI can be found on Royal Windsors facebook page.
Guy Martin - pretty much saying Roller Girls are... →
Watch LRG's newest team BATTER C POWER kick arse... →
WAREHOUSE HUNT start now! Help make lots of derby... →
Come to this and get some skillz then watch derby!... →
December 2011
6 posts
Don't forget to watch Stefanie Mainey at 6.25pm... →
RESULTS!! →
Thank YOU so much for voting in the DNN poll people. Check out the results - London won most improved and best bout. If that wasn’t enough Stef and Kami runners up in their own right!
Big <3 to all voters. xxx
Xmas gift of choice - tickets to this →
Tiger Bay Brawlers visit Earls Court for skatey fun times in the new year. Whats not to like?
London and Stef in DNN poll! Vote Vote Vote →
After an amazingly wonderful year in LRG HQ we are up for a few awards over at DNN. Including ‘Most Improved’ and ‘Best Regular Season Event’.
Stefanie Mainey is also up for ‘Best Double Threat’. Woweeee!
July 2011
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Toronto here we come, part 2!
And the skaters on Team England aren’t the only London Rollergirls to be representing at the World Cup! Congratulations also to Team Ireland’s Bad Faith and Sinister Mary Clarence, and Team Sweden’s Knickerblocker Glory!
…hey, that’s 14 LRG skaters total. Pickup scrimmage, LRG vs the world? :D
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Toronto here we come...
Final tryouts for the team to represent England at the inaugural Roller Derby World Cup were held yesterday, and we’re proud to announce that no fewer than 11 of the final squad are London Rollergirls! The final 20 are:
Dee-mise (Rainy City Roller Girls)
el VISIOUS (Hellfire Harlots)
Feral Fairy (Rainy City Roller Girls)
Fox Sake (London Rollergirls)
Frightning Bolt (London...
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Season 3 Championship Preview
LRG Season 3 Championship: Saturday 9th July, 4pm. Tickets here
“If we play our game and keep our heads, the Championship is ours for the taking.”
Slice Andice, captain of the Steam Rollers, doesn’t doubt her team’s ability to take the LRG season championship trophy in July. The Harbour Grudges, however, will have other ideas. They are “a force to be reckoned...
“We’ve had so many injuries we’re considering changing our name to...”
– Sky Rockit, Harbour Grudges vice-captain
Presenting the summer 2011 travel team squads...
Every three months (or so) a crack team of LRG coaches and captains gets together and deliberates long into the night on the composition of our travel team squads. Our current method is to select a squad of 20 players for London Brawling, our All-Star/A team. Six of those players are ‘crossover’ skaters, who also play for Brawl Saints, our All-Star Reserves/B team. A further 14 players...
June 2011
11 posts
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Kit Check: Carrie
When starting roller derby my aim was to get the best gear I could as cheaply as I could, in case it turned out I didn’t actually like it after all. What? It could happen. (Um, could it? Has it? Do people give it a go and never come back again? I can’t imagine…)
A few weeks in, and realising I was hooked, it was tempting to go out and blow all my money on amazing gear I didn’t need, especially...
Judge Knot says...
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Stir-crazy: Fox
Just over a week without skating. It’s fairly rare that this happens, and I’m starting to get a little stir-crazy. The weather has been wet or changeable enough that I’ve not really been able to skate outside, and I also failed to make it to the gym last week despite taking a week off work, so I’ve had nothing to burn off the excess energy/aggression. Antsy, is the word.
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Starting and stopping: Phillippa
So after a few times out on my skates and even more time roaming the internet I decided it might be best to have a go at some basic roller skills. In particular I felt my practice may be improved by honing the fine art of stopping, which up until now had consisted of either letting myself slow to a stop or, on less well timed occasions, sort of half-crashing into, half-grabbing some near-by...
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Baby zebra: Max
When I told my friend Chris I was training to become a Roller Derby ref he had only one question for me: “Are you having a mid-life crisis, Max?” he said, resting a hand on my shoulder. He had a point too; upon joining I’d simultaneously quit my oh-so cushy government job to again pursue a career in the film industry (the last attempt didn’t really go too well), I was 31...
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Reports from Brawl Saints' Caledonian sojourn →
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Fresh Meat: Carrie
I’m not sure how to begin this blog but some sort of introduction seems called for. I’m Carrie, no skate name as I am far too new. I started the Fresh Meat programme in February and have spent the last 13 or so weeks learning how to stop and fall so I don’t kill myself, and recently scrimmaged for the first time. That was somewhat mental, I have to say. Fresh Meat is over, I guess, and I haven’t...
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Dipping a toe stop in: Phillippa
I have to confess, if I you had asked me 6 months ago what I thought of roller derby in the UK I would have said ‘They have roller derby in the UK?!’ and if you had asked me the same question a year ago I would have said ‘Umm, what is roller derby?’. But once discovered it didn’t take long for me to start thinking that this was the sport for me. So, I had been to a...
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Introduction: Fox
The week before two Brawl Saints games followed by a summer break is probably not the best time to start a training diary/blog thing, but my timing has never been spectacular. So here we go anyway. Hi.
A bit about me, before we begin. I’m Fox Sake, and I have a derby problem. I’ve been a member of the London Rollergirls for a little over four years now. I’m primarily a jammer...