Saturday, August 14, 2010

Roller Derby

In my opinion, the piece de resistance of the weekend was our visit to see the Carolina Rollergirls! All women's flat track roller derby - hell yeah!

Not knowing what to expect, we had a conversation on the way over about whether this would be "real" or more like the WWE (all fake hits and such). The answer became pretty clear when parked at the entrance to the rink was an ambulance!



Let's just say, they weren't messing around! I don't really understand the scoring yet but it was fun to watch and there were quite a few hard hits. These girls are tough!

The match was between the "Debutante Brawlers" and the "Tai Chi-tahs" and all the girls had super fun Rollergirl names. A few favorites ... Elektra Q. Tion; Beth Row; Holly Wanna Crackya and Lady Smackbeth. I loved it all!



Probably one of my favorite parts was the "Chi-tahs" human mascot - this awesome(ly hysterical) guy that took his job really, really seriously. I can't make this stuff up people, check him out! ...



Here's Marcus enjoying the show (and wearing his new Carolina Rollergirls t-shirt which he won!).



Ah, good times. I am totally hooked and can't wait for the next game!

1 comment:

CRGblog said...

so glad you enjoyed it! our next bout is Sept 11 at Dorton Arena- hope to see you there!