Derby Tour Update 2011

I've done a craptastic job of updating this blog regularly, as in most of 2010 was missing. I'm trying to pick back up the slack and get back to regular updating, but one of the fun projects has fallen seriously out-of-date.

In case you don't remember, I started my Derby Tour project in 2009 when I began skating with DDG. The tour includes away bouts in other cities as well as my random drop-in to a league practice in another city that I may be wandering through.

Since I'm a few months behind in this blog in terms of my derby-associated travel, let me update my travel summaries....

1. Sin City Rollergirls -- Las Vegas, NV [April 2009, April 2010, June 2010]
   
2. Ohio Rollergirls -- Columbus, OH [April 2009]
   
3. Roller Girls of Southern Indiana -- Evansville, IN [May 2009]
   
4. Hard Knox Rollergirls -- Knoxville, TN [June 2009]
   
5. Sintral Florida Derby Demons -- Orlando/De Land, FL [June 2009, July 2009]
   
6. Nashville Rollergirls -- Nashville, TN [July 2009, 2010]
   
7. Memphis Roller Derby -- Memphis, TN [August 2009]
   
8. Mobile Roller Derby -- Mobile, AL [August 2009]
   
9. Classic City Rollergirls -- Athens, GA [September 2009]
   
10. Carolina Rollergirls -- Raleigh, NC [November 2009]
    
11. Chattanooga Rollergirls -- Chattanooga, TN [December 2009]
12. Burn City Rollers -- Phenix City, AL [February 2010]
13. Oklahoma Victory Dolls -- Oklahoma City, OK [March 2010]
14. Houston Roller Derby-- Houston, TX [May 2010]
15. No Coast Derby Girls -- Lincoln, NE [June 2010]
16. Green Country Rollergirls -- Tusla, OK [June 2010]
17. Panama City Roller Derby -- Panama City, FL [September 2010]
18. Tallahassee Rollergirls -- Tallahassee, FL [September 2010]
19. Little City Rollergirls -- Johnson City, TN [June 2011]

I'm back to tagging all Derby World Tour stops and compiling a map... look out for future stops! And if you have any "Gotta See It" suggestions on stops I need to make, let hear them in the comments section!

Puerto Rico poster!

I'm getting excited!

Puerto Rico or BUST!

One of the great things I love about Roller Derby is the fact that its a hobby that allows us all a new avenue to travel and explore different areas. This was the inspiration behind my "Derby Tour" project, to skate with as many teams as I could all across the country... and the WORLD. (I need to do some updating of my Derby Tour notes, yikes I'm behind)

To that effect, I was majorly bummed to have missed the trip last year to Hawaii with the rest of the girls, but always wanted to make a trip to my homeland of Puerto Rico and have been searching for a start-up team there for some time now.

Thanks to the wonder of Facebook, not only did I find a team there.... I found several! They've organized together into the Tropic Terrors of Puerto Rico. This consists of about 5-6 teams spread out across the island in San Juan, Mayaguez, Ponce, Arecibo, Bayamón, Caguas... a BUNCH of rising derby on a pretty small little island! That's exciting to me!

The Reckless Bandidas in San Juan is the team that I have been working with on a Pan-American game versus DDG. They are all very new to derby there, and will be using this as one of their first public debuts to the sport. We've set up a bout for October 22 in San Juan, and are really excited to be skating on the island!

So.... there's a bunch to do in just a short time to get there, and a few of us DDG's are trying to come up with some ways to support getting the team there. Look out for a benefit show to be announced soon!

In the mean time, if you can help throw a few coins into my Puerto Rico or Bust piggy bank below, I'd be MUCHO grateful!

WEPA!