Not always. I was recently introduced to the underground world of ROLLER DERBY!
At the Del Mar fair grounds, one of the "San Diego Derby Dolls" teams, the Hard Corps, went up against a team from Humboldt.
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Basically two teams of five people each skate around a track. One of the team members (the pivot) sets the pace around the track, three members try to block while one member from each team, the jammer, tries to pass through the pack, lap the team and pass through again. The jammers score points for the number of opponent team members they pass.
As you can see, there is a lot of protective equipment, helmets, knee pads, etc. It is a competitive shoving match around the track and can be quite exciting, even brutal.
The best part are the team member names, like OB Vicious or Heidi Evidence. One girl's number was #U (pound). Ha!
This is "Buster Scullin", "Flogging Ollie", and "Jenniferocious".
Yes, we are a mean looking bunch! You wouldn't want to meet us in a dark alley at night, especially when we have our skates on! (Or at a lake, because we might have rocks in our pockets.)
