House of Quad | Totally The Bomb https://totallythebomb.com Loud opinions, weird products, real life. Blogging since 2006. Wed, 10 Jul 2019 04:46:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://totallythebomb.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/cropped-favicon-32x32.png House of Quad | Totally The Bomb https://totallythebomb.com 32 32 Roller Derby Practice #3: Holy Heck, My Feet Hurt! https://totallythebomb.com/roller-derby-day-3/ Mon, 24 Sep 2012 06:40:16 +0000 http://www.totallythebomb.com/?p=3707 So, I am still derby-ing it up, and I am still having fun. But now it’s time to talk about the stuff that sucks. The thing is, you don’t want to be a Negative Nancy while you are at practice, but this is my blog, so I can do what I want!*

The most frustrating part so far isn’t that I can’t skate very well or that I am scared about falling on my booty, it’s that when my feet hurt, I have no choice but to sit down.

I don’t want to sit down.

I want to skate the entire time, but I also want to scream and stomp my feet and cry about how much they freakin’ hurt. (But, I am not going to stomp my feet, because that will just lead to the whole falling on my butt part.)

There’s a reason why I wanted to do Derby in the first place, and that’s the part that has to make me look past the whole feet hurting like I am standing on a pile of needles thing. I am 33, about to be 34– that’s mid-thirties. The age where you see people really start to fall into two different categories, the ones all ready to grow old, and the ones who aren’t going to let that happen so easily.

I want to fight it. I mean, sure I can’t fight the math, but I can fight the age. Right?

Right.

*Yeah, I sang that to the tune of “It’s My Party, and I’ll Cry if I Want To.”

 

]]> My First Roller Derby Practice https://totallythebomb.com/roller-derby-practice/ Thu, 13 Sep 2012 05:18:48 +0000 http://www.totallythebomb.com/?p=3680 Last Thursday, I went to my first Roller Derby practice with the North Texas Derby Revolution at the House of Quad. That’s right– I want to skate around in circles, while other women much bigger and stronger than me try to knock me on my ass.

There’s just one problem. I can’t skate.

At all.

I suited up all proper like (no, I don’t mean fishnets and booty shorts– I mean knee pads, elbow pads, wrist pads, etc.) and then it was time to put on my skates.

Well, as soon as I put on my skates I started rolling. I don’t know why, I mean I’ve been on skates before, but never Derby skates. But I did, I just rolled right across the floor. Right into one of the instructors. She was kind enough to let me lean on her to stop the rolling though.

Then, they decided we needed to learn to fall. I assumed that I’d be doing plenty of that on my journey to learn to skate… but I wasn’t in charge, so I slid across the floor on my knee and tried to get up off the floor in skates. I actually did okay with the first couple of falls, and was surprised to learn the pads made it so the falls didn’t hurt.

After that awesome adventure, it was time for more instruction. I stood with the other “fresh meat” listening, trying not to roll, and then it happened. My skates slipped right out from under me, banana peel style, and I fell straight on my ass.


That’s when the Angel of Roller Derby, Reckless, came to help me. She taught me to skate back and forth and back and forth while all the others worked on their falling. She talked to me about roller derby, and she even gave me her water.

She’s my hero. And she’s why I’ve been on skates every single day since I left that place. Tomorrow, I’ll go back to practice, and I’ll be slightly better.

Why?

Because Roller Derby is the most fun I’ve ever had.

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