{"id":1507,"date":"2009-03-30T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/30\/talk-derby-to-me-a-night-with-the-windy-city-rollers\/"},"modified":"2009-03-30T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T15:42:00","slug":"talk-derby-to-me-a-night-with-the-windy-city-rollers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/talk-derby-to-me-a-night-with-the-windy-city-rollers\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk Derby to Me…a Night with the Windy City Rollers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So a few years back, a woman, who I shall call Helsa Wayton, invited a humble ice skater, Niki Van CleaverYourHead, to make the jump to roller derby skating. As you may have guessed, I am “Niki VanCleaverYourHead,” but I’ve never made it to a Bout. Sure, I can tear it up on the ice rink, but could I roll and elbow my way to roller girl fame? I wasn’t sure I could cut it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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As a consolation prize, I decided to make my way to the UIC Pavilion to finally check out the “Windy City Roller’s<\/a>” – Chicago’s only roller derby league. I brought along Andrew and two other friends so I would have a mini-focus group to ask: could I cut it out there?
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The night consisted of two “Bouts”: Double Crossers vs. The Fury and Manic Attackers vs. Hell’s Belles. I always envisioned myself skating as a “Jammer<\/a>” – the quick, agile skater that weaves around and under the legs of all the big-ass-blockers… that is until I realized that a jammer could find herself elbowed in the teeth or tripped and thrown out of the rink…head first. I also saw a fine blocker, on defense for the Double Crossers named, Sassy Squash. She soared a whopping 7 feet tall and was wide…very wide.<\/div>\n

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A couple of friends have warned me that I am too cute to skate with the big gals on the Windy City Rollers. I was offended that they didn’t think I was tough enough to make it on a team. After seeing the women of the Windy City Rollers tear it up, I may have to agree with my friends. I value my teeth…my nose too. So, I’ve decided to put my dreams of derby fame aside and just be a fan. <\/div>\n
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I bought a tee shirt instead.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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So, go to a bout or two, and figure it out for yourself; could you out-skate Ruth Enasia, Blossom Bruiso or Carnage Wilson? The only question you need to ask yourself is: how much do you value your teeth? <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\nSo a few years back, a woman, who I shall call Helsa Wayton, invited a humble ice skater, Niki Van CleaverYourHead, to make the jump to roller derby skating. As you may have guessed, I am “Niki VanCleaverYourHead,” but I’ve never made it to a Bout. Sure, I can tear it up on the ice rink, but could I roll and elbow my way to roller girl fame? I wasn’t sure I could cut it.<\/p>\n

As a consolation prize, I decided to make my way to the UIC Pavilion to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2241,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions\/2241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}