Monday (briefly) meant instructional sparring day, but now it is Mass Attack Roller Derby practice day!
We (Mass Attack Roller Derby ) finally have a home rink! Silver City Sports Complex is the new home of Mass Attack Roller Derby , and we have Monday night practices there.
Practice last night was pre-mock assessment practice.
In order to skate on a team, you have to prove you can do so safely.
WFTDA has a set of minimum skills a skater must be able to perform in order to join a team. We simply call the test "skills".
So, last night we were prepping for skills, and we had some visiting PRD skaters and some ref/men's league skaters.
They were awesome and set up a track for us to bounce around on, and helped us n00bs with things that need work.
We worked on the non-contact side of things, and I did kinda crappy. I need to work on quite a few things, but I know what I need to work on, so this weekend I will be at the Saturday afternoon and first half of Saturday night's open skate, as well as Sunday's open skate.
In order to pass skills, you need to be able to do 25 laps around the track in 5 minutes. I did 21 without crossovers. Partly because my leg still hurt, and partly because I suck at crossovers...right now.
I really want to pass more than I fail in the mock assessments, so I'm going to work as hard as I can to make that happen.... it's gonna hurt.
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