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Roller derby is a roller skating contact sport played on an oval track by two teams of five skaters. It is played by approximately 1,250 amateur leagues [note 1] worldwide, though it is most popular in the United States. [2] A 60-minute roller derby game, or bout, is a series of two-minute timed jams.
The team's first international competition was the 2011 Roller Derby World Cup, where it finished in first place after defeating Team Canada in the final. [1] Early on, it was known as "Team USA". A trademark challenge from the United States Olympic Committee led to the change to the name "USA Roller Derby" after the team's last international ...
Buscovick first learned about roller derby through the film Whip It. [3] Within days after learning there was a roller derby league in Portland, Oregon, she bought skates and gear and started teaching herself how to roller skate through YouTube videos. [4] In August 2010, Scald Eagle joined the Rose City Rollers fresh meat program. By January ...
The St. Louis GateKeepers are an open gender flat-track roller derby team based in St. Louis, Missouri.It was founded in November 2009 by Magnum, p.i.m.p. (Scott Meyer), a referee for the Arch Rival Rollergirls, and Bat Wing (Evan Jones). [1]
Two women's league roller derby skaters leap over two who have fallen in a 1950 bout in New York City. The growing popularity of roller skating in the United States led to the formation of organized multi-day endurance races for cash prizes as early as the mid-1880s.
The Men's Roller Derby Association (MRDA) is the international governing body of men's flat track roller derby.It was founded in 2007 under the name Men's Derby Coalition (renamed to Men's Roller Derby Association in 2011 [1]), and currently has 59 open gender leagues under its jurisdiction. [2]
National Roller Derby League (NRDL) – 1995–2004; initially promoted as Roller Derby Inc.; current site promotes the San Francisco Bay Bombers, etc. American Roller Derby League (ARDL) – 1997–2003; Owned by Tim Patten; briefly promoted as American Inline Roller Skating Derby League; Promoted the Bay City Bombers
Pages in category "Roller derby" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. ... Derby name; H. History of roller derby; J. Shelly Jamison;