... HI, new girl, just lurking and reading all the great advice!!! I'm a captain for the Neander Dolls in Las Vegas. I recognize a few girls here, hey hey...
If it makes you feel any better, Ivanna, outdoors wheels aren't a big secret. You're in the clear. We have used it before. Unfortunately some of the girls went...
Hi my name is jimmy(Bela Lugreasy) i am currently coaching for a new league we are starting,called the coos county roller girls. My question is what are some...
The Garden State Rollergirls would like to extend an open invite to anyone from the derby world that would like to stop in at practice next time they are in NJ...
Teaching side-stepping, crossovers that aren't for building speed in turns, and doing snake drills where the skater has to step through instead of coasting...
Hello everyone! Recently I was trying to find a place that listed all of the upcoming games here in California, and couldn't find anything anywhere. I ended...
I've been asked to help coach one of the teams here in Boise, ID from a new flat track league. The team has skaters of all levels. I'm trying to get some...
You may have to separate out the skilled from the not-so-skilled skaters during practice to work on different things if you have more than one coach available....
... from a ... trying ... I am a new coach as well so I know the dificulties that you are up against. I do one night of off skate land drills for the endurance...
I am also a new coach,and I have girls of different levels as well. I split them up sometimes and have the more advanced girls do drills on their own such as...
Work it the other way around where another skater is showing the basics of stopping, skating stance, etc. to the newbies while you coach the more advanced...
Hi, I'm Cherry Rockette from the VRDL in Australia. we've just started our league and are holding our first recruiting session tomorrow. (we have 5 board...
Hey Cherry, Bounty from the Northstar Roller Girls it is awesome that you have a variety of trainners everyone of those skaters will help propell your league...
Hi Cherry! You are lucky to have skaters with such diverse backgrounds helping you out with training! Best of luck to you and your league! Killian Destroy ...
Hi Does anyone have any suggestions for drills that focus on pack awareness and communication? Any help would be very much appreciated! Thanks! Blossom Bruiso ...
Hello Bounty from the northstarroller girls, Communication in a pack is tough I have been racking my head over and over I am starting to belive that maybe it...
A variation of this drill that SD Derby Dolls does is having a person in the pack holding up fingers that everyone else has to call out. She can hold her hands...
The Nacogdoches Rollergirls do another variation of this drill, which we picked up while at boot camp last December with the Texas Rollergirls. Everyone skates...
My wife ( "Rector Kilder" ) found this group and pointed me at you... I just started coaching Roller Derby as the assistant coach about a month ago... My...
There's a good drill we did the other day in practice for a certain non-female league I know of ... just a simple partner drill where the front skater...
Does anyone have advice for a new league that was established to be ran by skaters for skaters but now there are two skaters (founders) that are making all of...
Set up a board of directors or steering committee that would include the founders. Maybe try to explain to them that by creating this committee it would tae...
Matt, thank you. This has already been suggested and refused by the "founders" - I've been with the league since before it was established and feel that if I...
Hi Painful Roller Derby! I'm from a new league too (just 1 year old)and what your describing is pretty common for start-ups. We have had several situations...
We have league meetings on occasion, and as long as they do not turn into a complaining party, they work really well. That could be the first step if the...
Thank you! The responses have been really helpful. I believe the first step is getting the skaters to voice their opinions. No one has told them that they...
As has been said previously, having this type of thing happen seems to be part and parcel of just about every league going these days. Something to remember:...
Some of the skaters met to discuss how to move forward - how much voice they want, etc. as we began meeting - there was a knock on the door and the "founders"...
Welp, you're probably better off to get out of that situation if the skaters won't stand up for themselves and will let you take the fall for them. You were...
Hi--I would like to get some input about what types of expectations a coach should have. More specifically, if you are coaching a team what are some of your ...
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