Roller Derby. It’s a sport, right? I played a lot of sports when I was a child, but I don’t recall and prerequisite to already own a skill before I played. When we first start something, anything, we have to...
With Open Season kicking off this weekend, we were excited to have a quick chat to Unforgiving Bunny from Brisbane City Rollers. Bunny is the QRDL rep for her league Brisbane City Rollers and is also a founding member of...
Do You Know all the parts of your Rollerskates ? Why is it important to know your gear you ask? There a few reasons why a skater should know their gear. It helps to understand the mechanics or your equipment...
How do I love thee, Skate Noose? Let me count the ways. There are three main reasons why I love my Skate Noose. Now, I don't mind what kind of skate noose you have, (my sponsor Extreme Skates Roller Derby...
Insight into the love and passion for “Derby Fest” So this derby fan got the extreme pleasure of catching up with Guns N Rosie from PCRD over the weekend, during Skate Victoria’s The Great Gender Defender…so I took the opportunity...
ATOM BOOM WHEEL IS HERE WITH THANE FORMULA For those who don’t know about Atom Wheels’ background, it’s headed by Doug & Julie (Atomatrix) Glass. Julie has medaled in just about every inline speed skating competition known to man, and...
An economic health statement from the Crip-circle of Extreme Skates Roller Derby. Some injuries are unavoidable (even with the use of wrist guards, elbow pads and knee pads) : breaks, muscle and ligament tears, twisted ankles/knees, and so on. But...
For every roller derby road trip there are enlightening questions: some of these are trashy, such as the SILF (Skater I'd Like to...umm.. Fondle) game; some are contentious such as your ultimate ref-crew (who, of the amazing Zeebs we have...
Extreme Skates would like thank WhippaSnappa from Wizards of Aus roller derby team for sharing his derby knowledge of skate gear.
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I had the opportunity to coach the Brisbane City Roller Derby League freshmeat this week with the very coach who coached me through my derby Freshmeat phase, Hellton! I say ‘opportunity’ intentionally as the experience was great in so many...
So I learned a couple of important lessons this week about the skating world. The Brisbane roller derby community had some visitors in the shape of VRDL's Queen Bees team last weekend. They were tough competition, bouting against BCR, NBR...
