In follow up to our posting and announcement of our Advanced sessions…. Here it is people, the official Raw Meat Skills Testing Report Card! (Draft) Raw Meat Skills Test PDF There maybe some minor changes before Saturday, but they are cosmetic. The skills as they written here are what you will be tested on henceforth […]
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How to Play Roller Derby
At Raw Meat, we’ve started to do some no-contact scrimmaging. (And it’s awesome!!!) What’s a no-contact scrimmage? Well, it follows all the rules of a regular WFTDA game, but with absolutely no hitting. This is great fun, and it’s also great practice for all levels of skater. For the technically awesome skaters, scrimmaging offers endless […]
Make a Roller Derby Girl happy this Valentine’s Day
Looking for just the right thing for your roller derby queen this Valentine’s Day? Here are a few options to light up her eyes. Spend Money Nothing says love like $800 custom roller skates! Don’t love her quite that much? No matter. There are lots of great skate gear and derby apparel that she’ll love […]
To the Fresh Meat, love from me
For those of you that don’t know, this time of year is Vancouver derby christmas. The special time when Fresh Meat ends and all the league teams get to announce the meaties they will be claiming for their very own. Today was the day that the girls would find out whether they had passed the […]
Come to Raw Meat, and learn to do…this…
Snow Crash is currently Fresh Meat with the TCRG. This summer, she got a group of girls who wanted to try out for derby together, and founded Raw Meat. She’s spent years on roller blades, but has been on roller skates only since April. With hours and hours of hard work, sweat, and determination, here […]
Need Presents for Roller Derby Girls or Roller Skaters? Look here!
How do you know if you need to buy roller-skate-themed presents for someone special this Christmas? 5.   The only socks she’ll wear are knee-high and multi-coloured 4.   When her friends talk about roller derby movies, they mean, “Blood on the Flat Track,†not “Whip Itâ€. 3.   She’s covered in bruises and fishnet-rash, and proud of […]
Raw Meat Vancouver WFTDA Rules Cupcake Challenge Quiz
All right, I said I would post this on Friday, and I missed the deadline by 15 minutes. Woops. At any rate, here is a handy-dandy quiz to test your knowledge of WFTDA rules. Fill out the quiz, and bring it to our Raw Meat Vancouver skate tomorrow, December 11, at 5 PM at Thunderbird […]
December 11: Join us for the last Raw Meat Skate of 2010!
Is anybody sore after last practice? If you weren’t there, you missed lots of fitness drills, and some fun jammer action. Who knows what’s up for next week? Transitions? Jumping? Roller derby dodge ball? We could do anything. It’s our last skate of the year, and it could be crazy! You should come out. Plus, […]
Learning to Roller Skate: Advice from a Fellow Newbie
I’m pretty new at roller-skating. I got my roller skates just six months ago, in the middle of April. Before that, I had never skated before. Not roller-skates, not roller blades, not ice-skating, not that silly side-to-side sliding exerciser they sell on late night TV, nada. Today, I’m not a very good skater, but I […]