Ev'ry Day I'm Tumbl'in

Threata Van Sufferin, blocker/pivot, she/they www.wyoskate.com

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Claude Giroux, a.k.a the stick handling savage

[ofgeography]

turns this is claude giroux being very good at avoiding pucks and not, as i initially thought, claude giroux being VERY bad at stopping even just one of them

[geminiluvv]

"Get Rollin", 1980 ♡

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[threatavansufferin]

For years when I practiced with the Ohio Roller Girls the women's room had a sign that said "Roller girls only" and since ORG explicitly told all its non-rostered skaters we weren't "actually a part of the team" I used the Men's Room because there was no other bathroom available

So anyway shockeroo, tribalism transed my gender

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[flocklings]

Unknown Derby Girl, 1970s, Hermosa Beach, CA.

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Douglas Kirkland

Cher Rollerskating On Venice Beach, 1979

[justseventeen]

March 1979. ‘Hot Wheels’

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Roller Skaters - Venice Beach (1979)

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Roller Skaters (1979)

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[adamsmasher]

What I love about this is seeing that he's clearly a hockey skater. Now, I don't know shit about fuck when it comes to cold slippy antics, but what I notice is different between hockey skaters and nearly all other skaters is that hockey skaters essentially run on the ice. Any other skater is trying to glide, perform, or be otherwise smooth. Create a new type of mobility, but on ice. But hockey skaters? The floor is slippery but that's why they've got knives on their feet, so it's running time. Run run run run.

So this is like playing tag on ice, except the one guy you're trying to get is magically not on ice. And I think that's pretty neat.

[jackironsides]

He’s also making really good use of the stoppers on the front of his skates. You can clearly see several times that when he starts juking and running he’s not actually running with the wheels in contact with the ground – he’s tipped forward to run on the rubber stoppers, which will give him more traction on the slippery surface. He can change direction faster because none of his kinetic energy is going into countering the inertia of spinning wheels.

I don’t know if the picks on the front of ice skates are used similarly (because ice hockey is not so much of a national pastime in Australia) but I wouldn’t be surprised. But I spent a bit of time with a roller derby team, and I recognised that particular stopper run :)

[threatavansufferin]

Tumblr reinvents Roller Derby, touch grass, etc

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Lynda Carter

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[unbeeliever]

Just thought people may enjoy this :)

[threatavansufferin]

Reminder for those who say they have to lose weight before they join roller derby:

No the fuck you don't