Portland Men's Roller Derby

Incase you somehow managed to sleep through the many announcements (my apologies to narcoleptics and those recently recovering from a coma) QUADTASTROPHE 2010 starts tomorrow afternoon! Portland Men's Roller Derby is hosting a variety of events about tow...

Practice this morning, earlier than usual to accommodate the double header for the final day of the Hometown Throwdown (Awesome derby weekend with 6 bouts of nationally ranked teams, so we got started at 9am instead of our usual 11am. That 2 hour earlier...

Once again I am behind in my posts, so I'll summarize to date as best I can...(8/1) Practice happened again. Skatie Kat joined forces with The Whip help direct the circus of misery, and was an excellent resource for seeing how the things we were doing lo...

Another fun practice yesterday. Anarchy was at the helm, aided by Faux Paul, and we had a new skater (with gear!) in addition to 6 skaters. Drills, water breaks, and more drills filled the practice. Also, there was some questionably large amounts of sw...

So a while back I bought some new bearings. After talking with Boyd @ Oaks I went with the Qube 8-ball, which, like their name suggests, have 8 balls rather than the traditional 7 per bearing. They (Qube) claim the extra sphere and a deeper groove/chann...