Derby has been such a big part of my life and my development in the last half year that it needs to be spoken of! Well, I suppose the beginning makes the most sense...
One afternoon I was at Brooklyn Pickle on West Genesee Street with my (now ex-) husband, Walt. It was a sunny day in spring or summer, if I recall, and we were walking through the parking lot after eating lunch when I see a car with stickers on it's back and a sign advertising a bout the following weekend. Bouting for Boobies was the match to benefit breast cancer research, which I admired.
I was excited. Syracuse has a roller derby team?! Hell yeah I wanted to see it. I was very curious how it all worked and what exactly we would be watching. I purchased the tickets online and away we went to the bout! Which I was amazed to find was so close by at the Baldwinsville Ice Rink.
Well, we went in and found seats. People of all sorts passing us and taking theirs as well. I loved the variety of the fans alone. There was a live band playing, who were pretty good. I was honestly fascinated by the everything.
The basic rules were explained before anything further happened. I drank it in. Okay, so were watching the one with the star on her helmet. Okay... Wait, wait. It's a different person now... And so on and so on. I turned to Walt and said "I have to do this. I can do this!" He smiled and basically gave me a sure-you-can response. But really, I didn't care. I was enraptured. I was tossed a free tshirt of their logo and an advertisement on the back and put it on over my clothes right away. I loved it, all of it.
Then life happened. Children, marriage, separation, upheaval, relocations, etc, etc, etc... Issues upon issues. I didn't get to see another bout until about 6-8 months ago. I didn't even think about roller derby with all that was going on... (to be continued)
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