Pebbles
09-28-2007, 07:38 AM
Roller derby is back. Only this time it's not just kitschy spectacle, but real sport. This generation of skaters has Title IX blood running through its tattoo-covered veins. Behind the winking dominatrix humor, these women are athletes.
Saw this articles in news and it has brought back memories of when the roller derby was popular years ago. I was a 'Bay City Roller' fan.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-derbysep27,0,5076158.story
Along the fence of the North Avenue Beach skating rink, eyes widened. Mouths hung open. What the...
A clacking hum rose from the track. Ten pairs of roller skates vibrated past, 40 wheels of rhythmic clacking, pumping down the straightaways, holding back around the curves.
Shoulders bumped, hips shoved, butts were deployed backward. Every so often, someone went flying, sliding into a wall.
Derby girls. Magenta-haired and orange-dreadlocked, their faces pierced and bodies tattooed, blooming with flowers, birds and, for several, an insignia: a skull and crossed bones tipped with skate wheels.
Saw this articles in news and it has brought back memories of when the roller derby was popular years ago. I was a 'Bay City Roller' fan.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-derbysep27,0,5076158.story
Along the fence of the North Avenue Beach skating rink, eyes widened. Mouths hung open. What the...
A clacking hum rose from the track. Ten pairs of roller skates vibrated past, 40 wheels of rhythmic clacking, pumping down the straightaways, holding back around the curves.
Shoulders bumped, hips shoved, butts were deployed backward. Every so often, someone went flying, sliding into a wall.
Derby girls. Magenta-haired and orange-dreadlocked, their faces pierced and bodies tattooed, blooming with flowers, birds and, for several, an insignia: a skull and crossed bones tipped with skate wheels.