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My Homegirls and sista Vals Cagey Bea and Ophelia Melons are Enforcers with the L.A. Derby Dolls. If you haven't been formally introduced to the Derby Dolls, check these ladies out!
From the Derby Dolls web site:
Skates. Skirts. Scars. The L.A. Derby Dolls are Los Angeles' original women's quad-skate roller derby league. Yes, action fans, you heard it right -- roller derby!
Founded in October 2003 by Rebecca Ninburg (a.k.a. Demolicious) and Wendy Templeton (a.k.a. Thora Zeen), the L.A. Derby Dolls are a league of more than 60 women divided into four teams who skate on a banked track.
We've taken all the thrills of the old game and brought it up to date with a fresh and feisty new face. We're half-clad, all bad!!!
These derbylicious ladies also are looking out for the little Dolls as well--they'll be conducting an L.A. Derby Dolls Roller Derby Summer Camp for girls ages 9-17, July 21- 25 at The Dollhouse. For more info you can check out the Derby Doll's MySpace page.
Help the Dolls out: they will be holding a Derby Doll Yard Sale to help raise money to buy gear and pay for camp scholarships for the lil' Dolls.
Help the Dolls out: they will be holding a Derby Doll Yard Sale to help raise money to buy gear and pay for camp scholarships for the lil' Dolls.
If you want to see them in action, their next bout will be Saturday, May 31. The Sirens go up against the Tough Cookies ("Where Beatings Earn You Badges"). Get your tickets quick-like, 'cause the house gets sold out every bout.
Labels: around l.a., cagey bea, l.a. derby dolls, ophelia melons, roller derby
Posted by Debbie @ 5/16/2008 12:00:00 PM
20 Comments:
Scared of this!
Leave it to Valley Doll to bring this blog some trash from the 1970s.
What's next? Guest editor, Steve Garvey?
Nevermind the grumbling malcontent above^^^^, Doll. The guy needs more roughage in his diet.
There's nothing wrong with athletic women, big hair, and eight wheels.
1:27 said: Leave it to Valley Doll to bring this blog some trash from the 1970s.
What's next? Guest editor, Steve Garvey?
Trash from the 70s? Huh? And why you hatin' on Steve Garvey?
Seriously ... it's Friday; lighten up, babe.
xoxo
This is straight out of a randy fantasy I had frequent dreams about in my teens.
(Of course none of these women were even BORN when I was in my teens, which makes me feel a LITTLE guilty for the slightly disturbing thoughts it revives).
A little guilty, but not a a lot.
VD, your use of "babe" and the "xoxo" thing are why people other than mayorsam hate you.
Go bake some cookies, Cookie.
Are they going to bring back the LA Thunderbirds? Anyone remember Raquel Welch in Kansas City Bomber?
Might as well bring back roller derby, in the last few years we've brought back poker, bowling, tattoos and cigars, all the stuff we thought died out with our grandpa's generation.
How about promoting something really important, like the 40 kittens that are going to be killed at 8pm tonight at the East Valley Shelter.
This sounds more important than roller derby.
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(818) 415-1219
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These kittens have till this evening at 8pm or they will have to be put down.
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2:39 said ... Go bake some cookies, Cookie.
Your condescending admonition to "go bake some cookies, Cookie" is why you annoy everyone (except yourself, of course). Have a great weekend, BABE!
And Mayor Sam isn't the only one who doesn't hate me. My Mommy loves me.
Hi Mom!
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
- Robert Benchley
XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO
Hey 1:47 and 2:01 ... let's go check out the derby! I bet it'll be fun! Fun! Fun! Fun!
They have a V.I.P. BAR! First round's on me!
xoxo
xoxoxox MY DOLL....
What's up with the Steve Garvey thing? And did someone mention you're baking cookies?? Love them!!!
xoxox your Mom
The Derby Dolls! In a moment of thinking "Hey, I need to do something a little dangerous," I was all set to go try out to see if I had what it takes to be a Derby Doll. I e-mailed them and then I even bought myself some hot pink and black striped tights and a mouthguard.
But I chickened out. Broken fingers are not useful in writing. OK, so it's a an excuse and I'm a wimp! My husband reminds me of this everytime he stumbles upon my mouthguard.
michele, michele, michele
::in my doll sing-song voice:
you-oooh-oooh-ooooh, rock so har-ar--ar-ard!
But seriously, you still got those hot pink and black striped tights? 'Cause sister, those sound right up my trashy alley.
Cagey Bea says they take it easy on the "Fresh Meat" who try out for the Dolls. They really train every skill level. You should, at the very least check out a bout and see what's cookin'.
But seriously -- the hot pink and black striped tights? ::swoon::
xoxo
Mayor Sam said: Might as well bring back roller derby, in the last few years we've brought back poker, bowling, tattoos and cigars
Roller derby, poker, tattoos and cigars? Sounds like the perfect evening to me!
xoxo
I grew up in the Bay Area. Remember the oakland Bay Bombers? They had a big blond "jammer". Gawd! What was her name? Just dies a year or so ago.. Ok. goin to google..
I think I know one of those "enforcers" in another existence. It's good to know there's something to life after one outgrows their "goth" period.
It's what's become of the 20-something mud wrestlers from that place up on Hollywood Blvd., just hurts more when they slam each other's 30-something bodies to the ground.
Joanie weston of the Bay City Bombers, nicknamed the "Blond Amazon" by the local "skateratti"..
Well, it's from the 70s (derby actually started in the 1930s, though)...but not. The Derby Dolls skate UNSCRIPTED roller derby - that's right, no fake rivalries, fights (fights are grounds for ejection), etc. Every hit is real, every fall, bruise, and injury is real (we have EMTs on the infield...and sometimes we use 'em).
I'm guessing some of our skaters were born when you were in your teens, Anon; we have skaters as young as 21 up through...well, they won't tell me, but we've got skaters in their mid-40s, too!
The T-Birds *are* back, they skate at the Fairplex, but they are an entirely different world from the Dolls; there is an enormous grassroots all-women's derby movement around the world, with 300 leagues currently running. None of these current leagues skate under the same rules as the T-Birds. Say what you want about ex-mud wrestlers; among the Dolls are lawyers, teachers, accountants, artists, business owners, librarians, lots of moms, authors, and god knows who else.
Michele, some of the skaters who are on our all-star team started out as non-skaters who showed up to FM practice and fell on their faces. We have awesome trainers who can get you *so many puns to insert here. Rollin'?* Did I try talking you into attending practice before.
At least a couple Enforcers are former goths, I'm curious which one is being eyed.
I'm surprised at some of the hate. How could anyone dislike the Derby Dolls? I took my kid sister (ok, she's not a kid anymore - she's 23) to a game. She suffers from self-esteem issues, probably like most girls her age. Well, probably like most girls period. A friend was raving and raving about the Derby Dolls - went on and on about how "empowering" it was, promotes teamwork. I thought he was full of BS. I really did. But unlike some of you, I opened my mind and said, why not. Let me go see a game, take the sis, shell out a couple bills. Well, it was nothing like I could have imagined. The athleticism on display, the showmanship, the sexiness, the camaraderie. I was blown away. Here were women of all shapes and sizes embracing their sex appeal without pandering to male fantasy - they weren't being sexy to appeal to men, they were being sexy because they ARE. The teamwork, how incredibly strong and fast these women were. My sister's jaw was on the floor the whole time. Although I didn't want to encourage her to partake (sorry, she's my kid sis and that stuff looks like it hurts!), I told her to volunteer or be a part of it. Everyone was extremely nice that we talked to. There were some drunken, jerky frat boys but we ignored them.
I would say to check a game out before you make such harsh judgements. There is somethign magical about this sport and the Derby Dolls in particular. And it is no less important than the kittens you posted about, Mr. Disgruntled Anonymous.
Audrey--that's what I love about the Derby Dolls, too--everything you said is right on the money.
I love all that grrrl power on wheels, and there is never anything wrong with sexy girls being sexy girls. Honestly, some people just can't deal.
And I feel sorry for them.
xoxo
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