Leadership
From human resources, to management, to just getting along. Team and league leadership, captaining, and a little policy advice, too.
Derby Coaches Shut Up And Lead
1Seriously. If you are a roller derby coach and you wonder why your skaters aren’t performing? Or god forbid slacking off, complaining, mouthing off, or maybe not even showing up? Shut up, sit down and listen to this guy talk. Listen to the whole thing. Then, show it to your entire coaching staff. Then, print out the transcript provided and MEMORIZE IT, and IMPLEMENT IT. Don’t give me any More >
I Got Your “Play Nice” Right Here
9I grew up faster than most. I don’t mean in the street smart, head strong, Hollywood child actor kind of way. No, I mean I was 5’5” by the time I was 10. I was wearing a B-cup, size 5 pants in the 4th grade. I was HUGE compared to the other little girls. That was the problem. They were little girls and I looked like I should be in More >
Our League Lost That New Car Smell
4The Alignment Was All Out Of Whack
We hit a bump. It had to happen. Granted it was not a big, huge, snow storm, black ice, skid into a tree, flat tire, no cell phone service, car won’t start accident, but it was a big bump and we had to get an alignment.
Our First Bout InvitationWe got invited to our first bout. That is exciting. That gives us a goal. That makes us skate that much harder in More >
The Roller Derby Honeymoon
2We are a banked track league without a banked track. We are a group of over 70 women who all joined this league within 6 months of each other. We have varying skating abilities and bring massive talents to our committee tables. We are a brood of strong personalities who are jockeying for dominance. Like most other derby leagues we are tattooed, dyed and strong thighed. We More >
Over 50 Can Kick Your Ass
11Pfffftt. I dare you to say that in front of The Hot Flash. If this woman isn’t one of your derby heroes, she will be.
Hot Flash (RJB Photo)
The Hot Flash is one of my former teammates of the Rat City Rollergirls‘, Sockit Wenches, and was playing derby while she turned 50 years old! If that isn’t totally awesome enough for you, read on… Flash has More >
Combat Roller Derby Gossip
12Image via Wikipedia
Gossip is Roller Derby PoisonBack in 2007 when I was setting up policies for the Santa Cruz Rollergirls, we spent a lot of time on our SCRG Code of Conduct. Several members brought together various ideas and we ended up with a pretty good Code… Sadly, it was not good enough.
One thing that I tried to implement into the code was a message about that dreadful dirty word… More >
Don’t Focus on the Stars
6Image via Wikipedia
Invest Resources in Girls that are NOT the Super StarsI have seen this all before. One of two things will always happen when someone quits or when you can’t control your turnover rate. You feel the loss immediately and panic, or the noticeable affects are felt a year or three down the road.
Does Size Matter?Whether you are in a big league busting at the seams with six More >
