So it's been an interesting few weeks... Did sooooo much skating I'm not sure how I wasnt limping around for most of the off skates days.. Training Friday nights, social skating Saturday mornings and some saturday nights, again on Sunday mornings and then extra long training Sunday nights - and even a public holiday Monday skate just for good measure! urgh! LOVE IT!!!!!
I also managed to make it out to an SRDL bout:
Headed out to the bout with the H*A*R*D crew and have to thank my car buddies for an awesome trip! My gorgeous Derby Wife, Poz O'tiff, FiFi BoxHer, Bru-Tillie Divine and Apple Ya'Hair - I've never laughed so much in a car ever - you grrls bring so much happiness to my life! <3 <3
As per usual watching the SRDL teams battle it out was awesome! I've trained with and against some of them and even played in a couple of teams with some of them - Love those gals!! Not sure if I will make it to their next bout, there is soooooo much Derby stuff on these days its difficult to get to it all plus fit in all my leagues training and programming as well... I need more hours in a day and more days in a week! hehe...
H*A*R*D has been very lucky to have someone very special design our league logo! One of our beautiful skaters (Private Erin G) has a very talented husband who designed us the perfect logo!
So I am very very proud and deliciously happy to release the logo for H*A*R*D!!!
Tim (the very talented designer) also designed us 2 other variations. One that can be used for alternate merchdise, and one specifically designed with iphones in mind - how totally sweet is he!I'm totally in love with these designs and cannot wait to see what he develops for our teams <3
One of the most exciting things that has been happening at training is our first round of assessments. We had a whole group of our Privates take their Corporal Assessments and I'm very happy to congratulate all those who passed!
Corporal SweetNess NoMore #09
Corporal Sarah B
Corporal Lynda S
Corporal Rae C
Corporal Apple Ya'Hair
Corporal Toni M
Corporal Hayley C
Corporal Alana D
Corporal Alyce
Corporal Penny D
Corporal Kiri M
REF Jeremy
REF Cranky Pants #480
These Skaters have all trained so hard and have totally earned their pass marks! Now that they have passed their Corporal assessments, they get to officially apply for their Derby Name - I remember the excitment of this and I'm so happy for them!
With all these skaters passing their assessments, it totally means SCRIMMAGE!!!!!! OMG I've missed this so so so so so much! For their first Sunday Scrimmage I totally just threw them in the deep end to give them a taste and they did so well it totally blew my mind! We took it a little easy and only used one jammer at a time with 3 blockers from each team on the track at once - but the smiles on their faces as we were leaving the training venue was sooooo amazing to see!
The following Sunday we had full teams on the track as well as both jammers. We started off with longer breaks between jams to answer any questions and to give Poz O'Tiff time to instruct her training REFS. I was leading the Black team while Lieutenant Dicey was leading the White team. Towards the end of the night - we stopped all that and threw them into 30 secs between jams. Props to FiFi BoxHer who had to leave the track midjam to ralph, but came back into play once she was done lol.
Inspired by the total awesomeness of the way the skaters and refs performed during that Scrimmage - I've decided to change up the shedule of our Sunday night training seeings as we now have 2 courts for the 3 hours.
The new shedule I will be trialing over the next few weeks is as follows:-
5-6pm
Court 1 - Freshie Coach BloodRED Penny and myself will take the Privates (and its highly suggested that the Corporals participate as well) through their hour of dedicated training.
Court 2 - Left free for the Sergeants and Lieutenants to warm up and stretch good and long in prep for the training torture I have install for them lol
6-7pm
Court 1 - Advanced Skills/Scrimmage Skills/REF talks. Corporals, Sergeants and Lieutenants will be run through Advance/Scrimmage skills by myself, and Lieutenant Dicey has been asked to bring 1 or 2 rules for us to discuss at length. During this time Head REF Poz O'Tiff will take her refs aside and run through her program with them.
Court 2 - Mick will take the Privates through their off skates workout, giving them the knowledge and tools to then use what they learn with him outside of training. This sort of training will keep them fit and strong throughout their entire Derby career.
7-8pm
This time will be all hand on deck for Scrimmage! We will run Scrimmage as if it were a bout. No holding back, no extra time outs, no excuses! Cannot wait!
Until next time peeps - Skate wise, Turn left!!
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