Bouts!

For this northern adventure the fabulous Dolly’s invited us to team-up with them to form a mighty, deadly B-team. Meg A Tsuanmi, Stumpy Jackson, Schindler’s Lisp, Test Monkey, JK Prowling, Bloodbuzz BonBon, Queen Mob and Grace Under Pressure stepped up to form one half of the The Free Birds. With the Dolly Rockits making up the rest of the squad, the Free Birds took on the Newcastle Roller Girls B team in a shortened bout – the ties that RTRB and DRR had formed over the last 18 months clearly showing as our girls worked together as if they had always been team-mates!

What followed next was a bit of a blur. And our most nail-biting, exciting bouts ever. There’s an excellent write-up HERE (http://www.dollyrockitrollers.co.uk/reviews/birthday-bash-review) that saves me trying to recreate things blow-by blow! Needless to say when the final score was revealed as a TIE and we realised not only were we going in to an almost-unheard-of overtime jam, but our SECOND overtime jam ever, we were a little freaked out! Especially with our jammer Hemaphroditie starting from the box and our favourite power line-up slightly less powerful after Phoenix picked up an injury.
Pft, as if that was going to stop us!
Some outstanding pack-work from Thea Dusti and Whacks helped delay Rogue Runner a little bit allowing her only two(ish!) passes and giving two full passes from Hemaphroditie once she sprang from the box; but unfortunately it just wasn’t enough. The jammer ghost points from Rogues first passes caught up with us & the Dollys took it, 129-126.
It was an AMAZING game to be part of, truly delighted the crowd and further cemented the love between the Dolly Rockits & Rollerbillies!
We’ve got to say a huge thanks to Milton Keynes Concrete Cows for lending us Valkyire and Norfolk Brawds for gifting us Yours Truly; thank you for lending them to us and thank you ladies for guest skating with us, love you long time! (and you look fab in green; sure you don’t want to stay?!) xx

We saw through their ruse from the off. Royal Windsor Roller Girls had no interest in practicing before their game against London Rockin’ Rollers, they just like the feel of South East farmgirl under their wheels. “Let’s think of a witty name!” we cried, and then we realised we already had one, as well the gold spandex to match. Bedfordshire Roller Girls, The Imposters and RTRB managed a respectable points differential, given that RWRG are actually ninjas and we’d utterly failed to train as a team beforehand.  More importantly, no one’s ass got broken! In celebration we hit the bar and drank the biggest cocktails in the world.

Next up was Team Robot vs Team Alien, clad in the zenith of shiny shirt manufacture. Seriously, it was worth skating in this match for the t-shirts alone. Voodoo and Tessie faced off against Dusti and…well, Dusti. Tara Bitch Down was sadly out of action, unable to skate or sit down. Harsh. Team Robot played an awesome tactical game, working well at the front to ruin any chance Team Alien had of helping their jammer. Everything else was a blur.

“Some girls are built for speed…”

Not us. At the start of April we were built for eating Reece’s Pieces and tit-flashing. We broke our beloved Phoenix In Flames at sparkle practice, and welcomed Tessie U. Fall onto to the squad after only 4 weeks skating with us. Zen bench? No chance. What we lacked in derby power was made up for in awesome support from our friends – a unicorn and two bears as our cheer squad, a very classy derby wedding, and emotionally scarring minibus hijinx.

And it didn’t (unless by ‘wrong’ you mean ‘losing 100% of your games’). We had the best time, and the best sock monkey. We joined forces with Bedfordshire Roller Girls to form Team! East! Angrier! and brought gold spandex love to the masses. The masses liked the love we brought, and made us the happiest team in the world.