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Worried that you aren’t fit enough/athletic enough/strong enough to start playing roller derby? The beauty of roller derby is that there is a role for every body shape, including yours! We have skaters from a variety of fitness backgrounds – rugby players, ballerinas, the sport-averse – and they can all kick some serious butt. Skating for 90…

Before you can start playing roller derby proper, there’s a whole bunch of skills that you’ll learn to make you a strong, stable, kickass skater – known as minimum skills (or ‘min skills’). The very first things you’ll learn and skating stance and stride, stopping, and falling safely. Over the course of our new skater programme, you’ll…

Roller derby is a full contact sport. This means that you will hit other bodies with parts of your body, at speed, while wearing roller skates. IT IS THE BEST. So, to make sure that you don’t break while having all the skating fun, you need ALL of the following to start learning to play…

You’ve seen Whip It, or Derby Crazy Love, or In The Turn. You’ve been to some events and cheered on your local team. You kind of know what’s going on in the game. Now it’s YOUR turn to strap those skates on and be your own hero. ​ First things first: find your league. Maybe you’ve already set your heart on a team,…

In ye olde days of roller derby, the sport was played on supercool yet superexpensive banked tracks (see Whip It). Then some smart babes back in ~2001 decided hey, how about we create a version that can be played on basically any skate-friendly surface? And so flat track roller derby was born. Flat track roller derby is a fast-paced,…

According to surveys by Sport England, millions of women and girls in the UK think negatively about sport. Sport is aggressively competitive. Sport is unfeminine and difficult and serious. Sport is only for people who are naturally good at it. Sport is dominated by men, and women are unwelcome. Sport doesn’t accept trans or non-binary people. Sport makes women’s bodies ugly. These answers make us very sad at…