Alligatorsneeze

Today was my fourth day of roller derby boot camp. I wasn't able to post about my last time on Thursday because of exhaustion.

Both today and last Thursday were completely different, again. Thursday was awesome in that we spent the night doing an obstacle course of sorts. It included skating zig zag through cones, making a full stop, turning around and skating all the way back and doing a 180 degree knee turn, skating down the other way around a cone, then a jump.

This was not easy. It was especially not easy because at the very beginning of my first time around this obstacle course (4 times total), I pulled a muscle in my upper thigh pretty badly. I didn't want to wimp out of practice, though, so I skated with it.

I think my best time was somewhere around 48 seconds, which is pretty bad.

Roller derby is something I just happened to stumble upon. I went rollerskating at Skateworld here in San Diego a couple months ago with my girls, and it reminded me how much I used to love rollerskating. Growing up, I remember my sisters and I going to Roller Skate Land in Chula Vista repeatedly. I also recall when it shut down and moved to somewhere like L street, and trying to get people to go with me, but it slowly dwindled away.

Quad rollerskating doesn't seem to be very popular anymore. There's more popularity towards inline skating and the like, and roller rinks don't exist like they used to.

In any case, when I brought my kids to Skateworld I saw a signs for roller derby up on the walls. What's this? I wondered.