Into sports? Into women in sports? Local to St. Louis? Then you need to get out to an Arch Rival Roller Girls game. The above is a slide show with some highlight photos from the February 6th game.
It was my wife and my first roller derby game, let alone a women’s game. Arch Rival Roller Girls are part of a Flat Track League. This is not what you typically see on television where the track is raised on the outside. These ladies play on a flat surface with the track laid out in tape.
Action is non-stop once it the game begins. Unlike football, where 15 mins of game time can equal an hour of real time, the pace is much quicker in roller derby. There are two 30 minute halves and the first one flew by. Timeouts are short and play resumes quickly after each scoring period.
I’m a bit fuzzy on all of the scoring rules but with jammers and blockers, and people being knocked flat it’s a good time. The announcers did a great job of keeping up on lead jammer and the scoring.
Bonus: Signing language interpreters were provided.
I’ll write a longer article later but for now I hope I gave you a quick taste and a desire to visit their home page, Arch Rival Roller Girls.
It was fast paced fun!
Once you understand the rules, (even if just a little) it makes it even more fun!
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