The education of Micki Krimmel
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I just joined LADD’s newest team, the Varsity Brawlers! Our first official bout is this Saturday against San Diego’s The Swarm! We’ve been skating with them here and there and I can tell you this is going to be an insane competition! So get your tickets now. They’re selling out fast.
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Last night marked a milestone in my roller derby career. I got track-cleared! Basically, once fresh meat skaters master a set of skills and show that they can scrimmage with other skaters safely, they get evaluated to be track-cleared. Once you are track-cleared, you can join the all skate practices with more seasoned derby girls and you can also practice at the track whenever you feel like it – as long as someone else is there with you. So this is great news for me! The next try-outs are at the end of August and now I can practice more to prepare for them. And I really need to. I’m not so great at stopping. In fact, I suck at it. I skate really strongly and I’m definitely in control but the perfect stop has so far eluded me. Not for long though, cause I’m gonna hit the track as much as possible over the next 2 months.
If you want a sense of what a 2 hour roller derby practice is like, these are the drills (as best as I can remember them) that we went thru last night:
30 seconds as fast as you can
rest (still skating)
45 seconds as fast as you can
rest
1 minute as fast as you can (need to do 5 laps for tryouts)
rest
1:15 as fast as you can
rest
1:30 as fast as you can
rest
1:15 and … all of the above all the way back down.
20 laps in opposite direction as fast as you can
20 laps in regular direction as fast as you can (must be under 5 minutes for tryouts)
stretching
blocking one on one partner
blocking/jamming 2 on 2
blocking/jamming 3 blockers, 2 jammers
blocking/jamming 4 blockers, 2 jammers
wall of pain:
20 crunches
20 side crunches on each side
20 bicycle crunches (much harder in skates!)
20 flutter kicks
20 scissor kicks
30 squats
30 seconds of squat pulses
hold squat for 30 seconds — ooooowwwww!
stretching
Then, after all that (2 hours), a few of us got back up on the track to get cleared. It was a tough and inspiring night. After watching the bouts at the tournament over the weekend, we were all really determined and had a great practice! This shit is crazy fun.
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