Available now from www. The best things to do in London. The must-read London articles. The coolest London events from our partners. By Lindsey Last edited months ago. Report a problem with this article. Not if she was a prostitute. Not if she was drunk. Not if you thought she wanted to. There are a lot of awesome songs about roller skating and even about roller derby.
Here are a few classics…. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address:. Sign me up! Are you sitting comfortably? Well get on your feet because Anarchy: Euro Crash is here. Europe, you have never seen anything like this before! If you love roller derby, this is one fixture you cannot afford to miss. Roller derby: the battle of the sexes?
Serve the soup with yoghurt and the flavoured oil and sprinkled with dried mint. London Rollergirls star in new Pet Shop Boys video. Email Subscription Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join other followers. Create a free website or blog at WordPress. So I did. I was editing fashion books at the time so I thought it would be great to make a beautifully designed, illustrated book with photos from all the leagues that have formed all over the world and really showcase the whole culture and style of roller derby and how it has developed over the years.
To my surprise, the company really liked the idea so I suggested that I write the book and manage the project myself. I really enjoyed the challenge and researching and writing about it all.
I wrote to leagues all over the world and got some pretty amazing photos of some very stylish rollergirls from around the globe. We also did an exclusive fashion photo shoot with rollergirl models from London Rollergirls, London Rockin Rollers and Croydon Roller Derby especially for the book here in London in the atmospherically moody setting of a graffiti spattered tunnel under Waterloo station. Interval training is something that has helped me a lot recently—especially with jamming.
It is perfect for roller derby because it enables you to perform at your maximum capacity for short periods of time and then recover quickly. Interval training is a type of training that involves short periods of high intensity exercise followed by periods of low intensity exercise for recovery that are repeated during one exercise session.
It can be done using most types of cardiovascular exercise but running, cycling and rowing are most common. Interval training uses both the aerobic and anaerobic system as fuel for the body to exercise. During the periods of high intensity, the anaerobic system uses glycogen stored in the muscles as fuel. The anaerobic system fuels your muscles without oxygen and produces lactic acid. In the periods of low intensity, the body breaks down the lactic acid that has built up.
It is thought that by performing high intensity intervals that produce lactic acid during training, the body adapts and burns lactic acid more efficiently during exercise. This means athletes can exercise at a higher intensity for a longer period of time before fatigue or pain slows them down. In roller derby, a bout is made up of two minute periods.
Each period is made up of a series of jams, which can last up to two minutes with a second break in between. Ideally, we need to train so that the body is able to cope with the worst case scenario under these circumstances. The worst case scenario is that each jam will last the full two minutes and that skaters will be required to go on in consecutive jams.
This means that skaters need to be able to exert themselves at maximum capacity for a full two minutes and recover in 30 seconds and keep this going for a period of 30 minutes before having a substantial break. In reality, this would rarely happen as jams often get called off before the full two minutes and skater line-ups are switched so that each skater gets enough time to rest. It is possible to train for this using interval training. It also produces an increased tolerance to the build-up of lactic acid.
It also helps athletes to increase the intensity of their training without over-training and therefore helps avoid injuries caused by repetitive overuse. Many sources also claim that more calories are burned during periods of high intensity exercise as opposed to slow, endurance exercise. It is a great way of cross training for many different sports, roller derby being only one of them. Every person should work out their own individual interval training routine based on their level of fitness and what they want to achieve from their training.
It is best for beginners to start with shorter periods of intensity and longer periods of rest and gradually build up the level and duration of intensity, duration and frequency of training, and reduce the periods of rest to speed up recover time.
Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address:. But here we're thrown in together and have to get along. Invented in Depression-era America as a spectator sport by businessman Leo Seltzer roller derby was originally played in mixed teams, but is now generally women-only.
The sport's US heyday was in the s and 60s, when games were regularly televised and players were paid professionals. It subsequently fell out of fashion, but has recently enjoyed a major revival as an all-girl amateur sport: there are now more than American leagues. Over the past 18 months, roller derby has also been gaining popularity in Europe. Leagues have sprung up in Germany and Sweden, and four have formed in Britain: two in London, one in Birmingham and another in Glasgow.
This is not a sport intended to be played behind closed doors. On the contrary: these women want to attract paying customers. Wallflowers need not apply, because half of the appeal is the theatrics, wearing the raunchy uniforms and playing up to the mixed crowd. The Rollergirls say that the game helps them to get out their aggression. But another skater, Iva Issues, from the Birmingham Blitz Derby Dames league - aka year-old cognitive hypnotherapist and mother of one Bee Bentley - admits that there can be conflict.
She points out that it was a fight between some of the London Rollergirls that led to the creation of a rival league, the London Rockin' Rollers. The squabbling tends to reach its peak when a league splits up into different teams, who then become rivals, she says. Watching the London Rollergirls' practice - in training for their first public bout on September 8 - it becomes clear there is a rivalry in the costume department too. The skater with the coolest helmet is year-old illustrator and animator Emma Broughton, who is sporting what looks like a stainless steel fishbowl on her head and circular, thick-lensed glasses.
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