What keeps you in Roller Derby?
Too many decisions, not enough deciveness.
When I decided to leave Montreal, for a quieter, more English existance, I thought that it would only be a new place. I would join up - very happily - with the Hammer City Rollergirls, work the new job, and life would go on. Weeee!
Instead, the 1 1/2 hour one way commute between Hamilton, ON and my work place means up at 5:30 AM, home at 7 PM, to bed by 10 or 11 and so the wheel turns. I don't own a car, and being a walker, skater, biker, on bus takes a little more time than driving would. And it's not quite as easy to skate or bike everywhere as you might think, with roads not being setup to allow for safe bike travel. Anyhoo, so roller derby has become a past-time, and not a career lately.
Last night, I went out to talk roller derby and what I was going to do with HCRG League President, Staplehead. Between the pint of beer, the sampler snack platter, and news about Chainsaw's pregnancy - she's ready to pop!, somewhere in there I realized that I don't know what I am going to do. I can move closer to my current office in the spring and see if the GTA Rollergirls are recruiting, I can transfer to my company's satellite office in London, Ontario and see if the Forest City derby girls are recruiting, or I can stay in Hamilton, so close and yet so far from playing for HCRG.
Technically, if I am willing to be tired, I can probably start practicing the GTA Rollergirls now in the off-season - cart my gear, gym bag, briefcase and shoes on practice day on two buses to work. Or, with HCRG, at least on Sunday evenings. But trying to restart my derby career is hard, when I don't know where my alter ego is landing. Is it fair to practice with a league that I won't play for and be able to work for?
Why does life have to get in the way of roller derby? Well, if it were popular enough to be a job, I probably wouldn't be on a team anyway, so I'll count my blessings that I learned how to play, have the will to keep trying, and love it enough to stay in it when I can't actually play.
What keeps you in roller derby?
Yourself.
When I decided to leave Montreal, for a quieter, more English existance, I thought that it would only be a new place. I would join up - very happily - with the Hammer City Rollergirls, work the new job, and life would go on. Weeee!
Instead, the 1 1/2 hour one way commute between Hamilton, ON and my work place means up at 5:30 AM, home at 7 PM, to bed by 10 or 11 and so the wheel turns. I don't own a car, and being a walker, skater, biker, on bus takes a little more time than driving would. And it's not quite as easy to skate or bike everywhere as you might think, with roads not being setup to allow for safe bike travel. Anyhoo, so roller derby has become a past-time, and not a career lately.
Last night, I went out to talk roller derby and what I was going to do with HCRG League President, Staplehead. Between the pint of beer, the sampler snack platter, and news about Chainsaw's pregnancy - she's ready to pop!, somewhere in there I realized that I don't know what I am going to do. I can move closer to my current office in the spring and see if the GTA Rollergirls are recruiting, I can transfer to my company's satellite office in London, Ontario and see if the Forest City derby girls are recruiting, or I can stay in Hamilton, so close and yet so far from playing for HCRG.
Technically, if I am willing to be tired, I can probably start practicing the GTA Rollergirls now in the off-season - cart my gear, gym bag, briefcase and shoes on practice day on two buses to work. Or, with HCRG, at least on Sunday evenings. But trying to restart my derby career is hard, when I don't know where my alter ego is landing. Is it fair to practice with a league that I won't play for and be able to work for?
Why does life have to get in the way of roller derby? Well, if it were popular enough to be a job, I probably wouldn't be on a team anyway, so I'll count my blessings that I learned how to play, have the will to keep trying, and love it enough to stay in it when I can't actually play.
What keeps you in roller derby?
Yourself.
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