It's okay to be homogay...

Scrimmage at the Northwest Knockdown! YA YA A A AYAAAAA

My rookie year as a Derby Player is Over

It's a little less than a year since the Harem of JCRG decided to pick my swedish ass up and add me to their 2008 roster. I skated my first bout on January 19th, and I remember bing excited but really terrified, considering I had only done one or two scrimmages before. It wasn't until March 15 I got to do my debut as a jammer and by then I had the Rust Riot scrimmage and some JCRG scrimmages under my belt... at this time I think I also went to watch my first Rat City bout and started to go to Dockyard bouts...

I got to bout against the Bellingham Betties twice, once with the result of a separated shoulder, that I quickly made heal, hate to be hurt, and not only a separated shoulder but we also lost.... Grace so nicely telling me to toughen up and go out jam... I refused and held the line... I heart Grace. The second time we won went up against them we won, and we were a very happy go lucky team! YA YA YA ... I love the Bellingham girls, and I am excited that Sheeza is doing the Makin Bacon with me right now. .. she's quite a Brickhouse

Championships were a disapointment, since we lost to the Pistols, I still feel ike I did my best, but still we lost, and it is never fun loosing, but it also gives you something to work on. Jut have to think what went wrong and re-collect yourselves and go with it! I will always love the Camaro Harem, they were my first team ... and orange is an awfully amazing color!

I went to RollerCon and made friends with my Derby Crush Summer over beers and mysterious Mosses in hot tubs, and there were scrimmages, scrimmages, skating classes, skating classes and even a morning boot camp that I made it too once. There was also dancing, dancing and heat, heat and more scrimmages, I still regret not doing the Team Awesome class, I am quite positive I could have kept up. But watching it and thinking about the drills was quite rewarding as well.

We played Dockyards Femme Fiannas and I jammed the opening jam in my career, it was nervewrecking, but it went really well and the Harem played an amazing game and won, this was a very short but hella fun bout.

I got invited to go with the Travel Team and bout Treasure Valley (Boise) and managed to collect a good amount of points and have alot of fun with both the Bombers and the really nice girls out of Treasure Valley.

And to finish of the season JCRG decided to split our four teams into two mixed teams and bout Slaughter County, since I'm crazy and an overachiver I decided to do both teams, when one of the teams came up short. So I got the pleasure to be both on the winning and loosing side and have 2 hours of bouting time... ahhh... and I got amazing outfits...

In November JCRG voted me to Derby Girl of the month, and it almost made me cry, I love those girls so much and they are a tough bunch of lovable ladies!

Now it has been almost a year, and I am no longer a rookie, I am trying out for RCRG and hoping that I get to skate more, more and more and I love the sport of Roller Derby so much! This past year has been pone of the best in my life and I have to gotten to know so many interesting, lovley, funny, crazy and clearly insane but gentle women! AMAZINGNESS and KUDOS to DERBY!!

This is what I want for Christmas

Please bring my Carmen Getsome's new roller derby workout video.

Carmen Getsome of Seattle's original flat track roller derby league, the Rat City Rollergirls, has made an off skates roller derby workout video that will help skaters of all skill levels improve their game. The video includes multi-level workouts that range in duration from 40-55 minutes. So whether you are brand new or a seasoned rollergirl this video will help you to reach your skating and hitting potential!

The beginning level of the video focuses on strength training the muscles you need to skate without getting injured while the advanced level workout focuses on plyometrics and the core along with the strength training. This roller derby specific training will help you to prevent injury while enhancing your speed, strength and agility all from the comfort of your own living room!!

Only $25!! Buy one today in person at Fast Girl Skates. Online sales coming soon!

Roller Derby is a SPORT... WE KNOW THAT....

The Oregonian Paper had stated to a Derby League trying to get publicity that "Derby was not a Sport". After being bombarded by emails from Derby Girls, Guys, and Fans they retracted their statement and said "Derby is not a Sport we Cover..."

Now The Oregonian has put up a poll asking if roller derby belongs
in the sports section.

http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/index.ssf/2008/11/poll_what_do_you_think_about_r.html

Please klick the link and vote YES!

Dance your pants of... NorthWest KnockDown

A year of Derby in Pictures and my Derby Girl of the Month interview... from present to last years try outs...

Swede Hurt

Number: 01146 (it's the area code to Sweden)

Team: Camaro Harem

Position: Jammer but I really want to be able to play any position; I think versatility is really important

Favorite drink: Carrot Juice - it's the most orange deliciousness in the world... I can spill it on my uniform and no one would know! I am also a huge fan of Guinness... It's a meal in a glass, God Bless the Irish for this!

Hobbies: Well, outside roller derby I love fashion, aerials, politics, reading, driving horses and frolicking with my friends. Oh, and I collect unicorns! I love Unicorns... are unicorns a hobby? I think Unicorns are a hobby!

JCRG: How did you come up with your derby name and what does it mean to you?
SH: Well, it was Suzie 9mm who came up with it when I was in Booty Camp. First I thought it was really silly and I wanted to be something like VIKING KILLING LADY OF THE NORTH, but realized that Swede Hurt was a better fit for me. I already had a bunch of friends that called me Swede, so it became natural to me real fast. And since I am born and raised in Sweden, I feel like it really symbolizes who I am.

JCRG: How long have you been skating?
SH: I started in August 2007, so by now it's about 15 months. My first skates were a pair of white pacer skates. I got them at a second hand store, because I thought they looked cool. Now, I have a pair of speed skates and I love every moment of it! I have even learned to love my bunion, blisters and calluses.

JCRG: What committee do you belong to, and what is your function?
SH: I was the Merch-lady of Camaro Harem; I brought our lovely merchandise into functions, set it up and made it look attractive and buyable. I also was on the PR and Bout Production; I am very great at setting up and tearing down our floor. I like to be where I can help.AND right when I became a Jet City skater they talked me into representing JCRG by entering the Harley Davidson Bikini Contest… my first and last. I did get second and won an entire year of tanning. (The things I do for derby)

JCRG: Why did you join derby?
SH: From the first time I heard about derby I knew I had to be a part of it: skating in cool quad skates, dress amazingly, hit each other and just get to meet a bunch of cool chicks. I could not resist a sport like that! I went to all open skates I could find around the Seattle area. I dragged my friends to early morning skates with the old ladies in dance dresses and organ music. I made friends get back on their roller blades and skate Greenlake with me. I was too shy to join PFM and one day I saw Big Poppa at Bellevue's Skate King and he had a JCRG sweater on. I googled JCRG and ended up in the first Booty camp. I was in it with Colt 45, Mona Agony, Vibe Raider, Casual Tease, Cheerbleedher, MissusUnshine and Lady Danger. I became a fierce berserk derby girl with the help of Angelica della Morte, Duke Spank-a-ho, Big Poppa and everyone else who helped to me keep upright. At try-outs the Camaro Harem thought I would be a good fit for them and I've been in love with orange ever since. From the beginning I really fell for the showing off part of it and I have really, really fallen in love with the athletic part of it. I have become so fit and it has been amazing to see my body get back to the same shape, as it was when I was 20 and competing in snowboarding.

JCRG: What is your favorite aspect of derby?
SH: That it is fun, fun, fun and that there is always a new aspect to it. It keeps me on my toes and constantly inspires me. I just love waking up in the morning and knowing I have practice with a bunch of amazing ladies that we can encourage each other, laugh and be silly. I love that it is full on competitive and aggressive play during a bout, but that you leave that on the track, and afterwards you can have a beer with the girl who separated you shoulder. I really have met a bunch of truly fun, loving, sensitive, bitchy, crazy, calm but overall athletic women. These are women that want to re-invent themselves, not particularly change themselves, but to find out who they are and how they fit in.

JCRG: Any other information we should know about you?
SH:

* I was a competitive half-pipe rider (snowboarding) for 7 years
* I love derby
* Did I mention I love to play derby?
* I'm really scared of the dark, but LOVE horror movies (I have never made a connection)
* Colt 45 is my derby wife
* I study fashion marketing
* I am totally silly and really shy
* Jamming makes me so nervous I want to throw up
* I LOVE UNICORNS I have a tame one I keep in my closet.

Nationals ROCKED!

I have set my goal, that's how I want to skate!
Nationals, on a team!
I want to win Nationals!
Bring it on!

I had a great time watching fantastic blocking by one of my new derby heroins Malice with Chains and some increadable never-stopping-jamming by Bonnie Thunders! The Championship bout was not as nailbiting as the Grudge bout, but still it was a display of AMAZING derby, I love this sport sooo much and I can't wait to get well from my cold so I can go skate again!

I can see the space-needle

I went out to grab my skates out of my car, and I had to stop and gaze down over the water, stare at Seattle, the city I have grown into being a part of. It was nothing but breath-taking. It was like a movie clische, I was just waiting for someone dark and tall to walk out of the shadows and swing me into the arms and kiss me passionatley. And right there and then my legs would go wobbley under the moon and I would drop my skates...
But in reality we all know that if some dark stranger came out from the alley trying to kiss me, I'd wack them over the head with my skates. Yikes, I guess I do lack some finesse and romantic imagination.

Apperently my height can say alot about me! I guess I'm almost a man...

What Your Height Says About You

You are a very vulnerable and spiritual person. Your emotions run deep. You have a philosophical and poetic soul. You think things through and are a bit of a skeptic. You tend to be very opinionated. You are a perfectionist with high standards. You prefer to work alone. You work hard, and you don't like interruptions. You are about as tall as the average Swedish man.

What Does Your Height Say About You?

Me and Anna at I <3 Rummage

So I attended my last Harem event, I made some hats and mingled around! It was bad weather and it was a low turnout! Hopefully there will be a better turn-out at the Urban Craf Uprising where the Harem once again will sell thier craft!
First weekend in December, you should be there and buy beutiful things that me and my lovley derbysisters have made!! Because it is soon Christmas, and what is nicer to get than something an amazing derby girl has made herself?

YAY!! DO it! And maybe I'll give you a kiss! Well, I can at least promise a hug!

Derby Girl Of the Month

No one loves derby like Swede. She skates when and where ever she can, be it inside, outside or in Sweden where people don't roller skate. She is friendly and welcoming to everyone - regardless of team association. Swede’s energy is contagious. She motivates others with her willingness to work hard and have fun with skating. She is ready for any derby event with the perfect derby outfit and her beautiful smile. Swede, we love you and we will miss you.

Read more about Swede Hurt.

Skate, skate, skate

School is killing me softly, I went to NYC for the weekend, got to skate, shop and dance... I even got a hickie.. (yikes) I think I have more game in NYC than in Seattle, maybe it is because I am well-behaved in Seattle.

Tonight I'm going to another of the Makin' Bacon Sessions, I am looking forward to some more skating... Two days of skating is already making me miss it...

I think a figureskating outfit would be AWESOME for roller derby

Ok, we all know I'm a little insane, but wouldn't it just be the funniest to skate in a figureskating dress. I have no clue why this is soo appealing to me... but considering I've scrimmaged in diapers and bouted in an 80's prom-dress... I guess a figureskating outfit is not that crazy... I'm not too sure of what my fashionmarketing teacher would think about this...

Thoughts later after that Obama got elected but california voted YES on prop 8

Society makes it real hard to be different, to take rights away because you are different. It takes one step forward just to skip two backwards. When love can't be recognized for being love and you have to hide who you really are, because it's not what you were taught to be.
What if you just don't want to be different, just to have the same rights as everyone else?

I cried when Obama spoke, because he did something that could not have happened in US 40 years ago, not because he's the first black president, because there been lots of black presidents and prime ministers, but he's the first black president of USA, and that is a whole different story. I see hope in a young generation of Americans, maybe a new beginning, we will see if he has what it takes, and I have HOPE in Obama.

But it also makes me cry thinking about all those people that has been voting yes on Prop 8 in California. Why would anyone want to take the right away from people to marry someone they love? Take that dream away that we grow up with, that we one day can walk down the isle with the person we want to spend our lives with.

Only 40 years ago, or even 10 years ago, inter-racial couples were looked upon with suspicion, and even hatred... And a couple of 100 years ago a man of nobless could never marry a peasant woman and the other way around. So I hope, hope that hope will bring change at that peole decide not to take steps backwards and go forward instead.

I am freezing...

Darn Seattle, it is cold, it is wet and finally both of the lights on my car are working. I have soooooo much to do, I donät even know where to begin. Another two midterms tomorrow, had two today and leaving for NYC tomorrow...

I am husteling myself over to Lynnwood in an hour to take laps around the rink, I like to just lap, jump, skip and hop and chat... I know Janice will be there, so an old team mate, always good to hang...

It's different to be different in different ways

Society makes it real hard to be different, to take rights away because you are different. It takes one step forward just to skip two backwards. When love can't be recognized for being love and you have to hide who you really are, because it's not what you were taught to be.
What if you just don't want to be different, just to have the same rights as everyone else?

I cried when Obama spoke, because he did something that could not have happened in US 40 years ago, not because he's the first black president, because there been lots of black presidents and prime ministers, but he's the first black president of USA, and that is a whole different story. I see hope in a young generation of Americans, maybe a new beginning, we will see if he has what it takes, and I have HOPE in Obama.

But it also makes me cry thinking about all those people that has been voting yes on Prop 8 in California. Why would anyone want to take the right away from people to marry someone they love? Take that dream away that we grow up with, that we one day can walk down the isle with the person we want to spend our lives with.

Only 40 years ago, or even 10 years ago, inter-racial couples were looked upon with suspicion, and even hatred... And a couple of 100 years ago a man of nobless could never marry a peasant woman and the other way around. So I hope, hope that hope will bring change at that peole decide not to take steps backwards and go forward instead.

Obama is on!

So congratulation Americans, you have a new president! I am excited and I think I'm in good company!

Derby Girl of the Month

I am Jet Citys Derby Girl of the month... November..

Such an honor... I love Jet City, you ladies are the best!