![]() ![]() ![]() Because you love it more than you've ever loved anything in your life.ĥ. Were I of the correct chromosomatic configuration I would run right down to my local arena and sign up on the spot.ģ. Moreover, its initial, innovative presentation - not so much as an A-to-B narrative, but as an experience and induction to Roller Derby - proved as engrossing and as exhilarating as the real deal itself. Oh, I am told there are rules - there are certainly key and keen strategies which you will learn in chapter four - but it's essentially hockey without the disingenuous excuse of why you really joined up: to knock seven shades of shit out of each other and score top marks in doing so. This contact sport, as I understand it, involves two opposing teams racing round a roller rink on roller skates but in the same direction, hell-bent on up-ending each other by any means necessary. I drop that in early in order that you forget it, for SLAM! made me smile from beginning to end at its genuine joy and heart-felt belief in the empowering, bond-building nature of Roller Derby. ![]() One of my favourite moments is when you finally discover what the direct, no-nonsense, not-easily-impressed cannon ball of a competitor, Velvet Coffin, does for a living. ![]()
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