I found out that because someone in Washington State shares the same derby name, I might have to change mine. If I can get written permission from the other that it is okay to use the name then it will be no problem. I was going to give it a week or so to see if I heard back. I only found the teams facebook page. I did message them, they did read it, and now it's a waiting game. I'm not sure what will happen if hey don't message me back.
If nothing else I will change my name is Malice in SlamHerLand. I thought it was funny.
In other news, my ankle is sprained....which we knew, but it was worse than I was first told. I'll be off of skates for, at least, another month. If I ever want to go back to skating I will need high top skates, which they don't make for derby. So that means a brace it is. My sister says she doesn't see why I will forever need one, but the sports doctor said. So I guess we will see.
Guess that's all for now!
Showing posts with label sprained ankle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sprained ankle. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Friday, May 15, 2015
It's been to long
Well then I feel ashamed that I have let my blog just slip out of my fingers. I am going to an MD on Tuesday to finally (hopefully) get the ball rolling about my ankle. It still has it's days, but I can get into my derby stance now, which I'm THRILLED about.
However, the more I NSO the more I'm just starting to love that side of things. Skating and NSOing is possible, but it is harder....I guess. Maybe.
Anyways, the important part is right now I can NSO, Saturday is the season opener and my shirt is so cute. I finally get to go by Malice, "Malice in Wonderland" of course is my derbs name. Calling derby derbs has got to be one of my favorite things, fyi.
Anywho, I went on a weekend trip to Ohio with my sister and my niece for derby. It was a blast. On top of that I started talking to this wonderful person, who I can now call boyfriend...still weird, but we're both pretty weird. I guess it works out. The weekend was a blast, I needed it. I started talking to more of, not only my derby girls, but people from other teams! It's amazing to listen to some of the girls and how many of them just love the sport and love the other team. It's truly an amazing community that derby has provided to people.
I could truly write forever on how much derby has changed people lives...maybe I will do that one day.
Needless to say, things are pretty good on this. Turns out having to turn down my DCP just might have been what was best.
Things have a weird way of working out like that...don't they?
However, the more I NSO the more I'm just starting to love that side of things. Skating and NSOing is possible, but it is harder....I guess. Maybe.
Anyways, the important part is right now I can NSO, Saturday is the season opener and my shirt is so cute. I finally get to go by Malice, "Malice in Wonderland" of course is my derbs name. Calling derby derbs has got to be one of my favorite things, fyi.
Anywho, I went on a weekend trip to Ohio with my sister and my niece for derby. It was a blast. On top of that I started talking to this wonderful person, who I can now call boyfriend...still weird, but we're both pretty weird. I guess it works out. The weekend was a blast, I needed it. I started talking to more of, not only my derby girls, but people from other teams! It's amazing to listen to some of the girls and how many of them just love the sport and love the other team. It's truly an amazing community that derby has provided to people.
I could truly write forever on how much derby has changed people lives...maybe I will do that one day.
Needless to say, things are pretty good on this. Turns out having to turn down my DCP just might have been what was best.
Things have a weird way of working out like that...don't they?
Monday, March 16, 2015
Clarissa Explains It All: Update
Clearly I've been watching too much Amazon Prime lately...aka nothing, but Clarissa Explains It All. Really though, who doesn't love the 90's? I didn't go to derby practice yesterday. I was debating if I should have gone anyways, but then I didn't wake up until 10...so there went that.
--------just saying though, waking up that late is amazing!----------
On our Facebook page some people posted that they were unable to make it to practice and asked what we did. Let me tell you...that wasn't the practice to miss. They learned an amazing amount of new things that I don't even know what half of the crap is. I know the 180 knee taps and that's about it.
I am feeling like this ankle thing will never heal...even though it is...how lame is that?
I'm pretty sure I'm just going crazy from being in my house so much and yet I still don't want to do anywhere.
On the Disney front: I got out of submission for a call center job!!! For anyone that doesn't know this is how Disney works....you find a job to want to apply for and apply for it online. Within minutes (most of the time) you're put in to two groups, submission or no longer in consideration. How they do that...I don't know. After that you'll be in progress, then pre and post interview, then you'll find out if you got the job or not! ---the DCP is a little different, you're just submission then in progress the whole time--
Anyways, a few weeks ago I was just playing around and thought "WHY NOT?!" and applied for a few different jobs at Disney, one being in the call center. A few days ago I was on my dashboard and I got out of submission! Even if I don't make it any further I think it's pretty awesome that I even got out of submission for a REAL Disney job!
In the meantime...I'm still waiting to hear about the DCP. I feel terrible because some people are still in submission for that. Come on Disney!
Vocab time!:
180 knee taps: tap your knee down, turn 180 and get back up, all while still moving as fast as possible. It's used to turn around quickly during game play if you get knocked down.....yeah...sounds easy...sure.
Sunday, March 8, 2015
Watching The Masses
Everyone compares themselves to other...everyone watches other people. Come on now. I know a lot of people who can even say that "people watching" is one of their favorite things to do.
Today in practice...that's what I got to do. I watched.
At first I was really excited for it. Watching everyone skating around the track and doing the basics was really helping me understand what we were really doing. I know what to watch for now and it makes it a lot easier to notice things.
However, even though we're not suppose to judge other people, it is hard. I'm watching some of these girls that can clearly skate better than I can and so, naturally, that causes me to get down on myself. Then I notice half of the girls are at my level. --staying up, hardly falling, just trying--
There were some tears today. They may have been tears before, but this was the first time I saw someone crying at practice. I felt her pain. I've been there already as well.
It's funny because we are all trying new things. I've noticed that even the girls who I thought were beyond amazing were stumbling and having a hard time on at least one thing.
I was pretty upset because today we...well they learned how to do 180 transitions and turn around toe stops. Pretty much the transition is turning in around by lifting your feet (at least your heals) off the ground. The turn around toe stop is the same thing, but you put your toe stop down after you turn in order to stop and change direction that you're going if need be. I've been all about it and I was pretty bummed I miss it.
The swelling in my ankle has gone down, but there's a chance I won't be able to finish this wave. Wave being the group of girls that's training at a time. For now I'm keeping my hopes high and if nothing else I'm going to start does NSO-ing. NSO being non-skating official. Pretty much....score keepers.
We will see what it's like after Tuesday. The big audition day.
Until then R.I.C.E. is my friend, and I will keep it up.
Anyone can do anything for 30 seconds.
There is always one thing someone can't do. No one is perfect.
Today in practice...that's what I got to do. I watched.
At first I was really excited for it. Watching everyone skating around the track and doing the basics was really helping me understand what we were really doing. I know what to watch for now and it makes it a lot easier to notice things.
However, even though we're not suppose to judge other people, it is hard. I'm watching some of these girls that can clearly skate better than I can and so, naturally, that causes me to get down on myself. Then I notice half of the girls are at my level. --staying up, hardly falling, just trying--
There were some tears today. They may have been tears before, but this was the first time I saw someone crying at practice. I felt her pain. I've been there already as well.
It's funny because we are all trying new things. I've noticed that even the girls who I thought were beyond amazing were stumbling and having a hard time on at least one thing.
I was pretty upset because today we...well they learned how to do 180 transitions and turn around toe stops. Pretty much the transition is turning in around by lifting your feet (at least your heals) off the ground. The turn around toe stop is the same thing, but you put your toe stop down after you turn in order to stop and change direction that you're going if need be. I've been all about it and I was pretty bummed I miss it.
The swelling in my ankle has gone down, but there's a chance I won't be able to finish this wave. Wave being the group of girls that's training at a time. For now I'm keeping my hopes high and if nothing else I'm going to start does NSO-ing. NSO being non-skating official. Pretty much....score keepers.
We will see what it's like after Tuesday. The big audition day.
Until then R.I.C.E. is my friend, and I will keep it up.
Anyone can do anything for 30 seconds.
There is always one thing someone can't do. No one is perfect.
Friday, March 6, 2015
Roller Derby...the Pain.
I finally hurt myself.
I shouldn't say finally. I should say....I had my first real fall. Not only was it my first fall, but it was the first fall during practice to actually stop a practice. Now I'm worried I'm "that" girl. I had to get up and rest my ankle, sitting with ice on it for the last half hour of practice. This morning isn't much better. On the plus side, my sister was there and got my water bottle and some pain killer right away. It isn't swollen and they don't think it's much, just a pulled muscle. For a pulled muscle...this sucker hurts! (the next day up date at the bottom)
I'm worried about going back now. Not because I'll get hurt again. I'm worried if I can stand to be on skates for two hours while working muscles that don't like being worked.
We were doing knee taps. For anyone that doesn't know what knee taps are you go down, tap one knee on the ground and quickly get up again...all of this while still skating and moving forward. If you stop (which I did...a lot!) you're not doing it right.
Doing a relay, we skated, t-stop, skated, knee tap, skated, rock star, then skated back as fast as possible ending in a one knee slide to high five the next person in line. The first time around I was way better than I thought I would be and I was proud of myself. Then we had to go again. My t-stop was worse (which I suck at them anyways) then came the one knee tap. I went down, pushed on my toe to come back up and rolled my ankle. A large pop and that's all it took for me to curl in a ball on the floor. With my skate off I felt so much better and ready to get back up...until I got up. Shooting pain went into my calf until I started walking a bit more. Then I felt pretty good the rest of the night. The more I move today - the better it feels, but I'm so scared to push it.
I'm proud that I wanted to get up and finish practice. I'm proud that I walked it off as much as I could. I'm not so proud of how scared I am to go back to practice on Sunday. I can't walk without a limp...how am I suppose to go to practice?
Vocab Time:
T-stop: A way to stop skating. Place one foot behind the other forming a T. Gently squeeze with your butt and your thighs to pull your back foot close, making yourself stop and the "T".
Rock Star: A way to fall. Drag one toe letting yourself gently glide to one knee, then gently place your other knee down and slide like a rock star would!
One-knee Slide: A way to fall. Like the rock star, but you only put the one knee down and slide until you stop.
Update: It's been two days since I hurt my ankle and my sister is finally making me go to urgent care. I worked yesterday and I came home to rest...later that night my ankle bone was swollen. This morning it is still swollen and still hurts. It was going to happen. I have to go to urgent care. That also means...no skating Sunday. The plus side of that is I get to rest up for my audition on Tuesday for the DCP. Hopefully I will be well enough to dance...at least pull through for a while. Hopefully it'll be nothing, but a sprain, but until the pain goes away...I'm afraid no more skating for me.
I shouldn't say finally. I should say....I had my first real fall. Not only was it my first fall, but it was the first fall during practice to actually stop a practice. Now I'm worried I'm "that" girl. I had to get up and rest my ankle, sitting with ice on it for the last half hour of practice. This morning isn't much better. On the plus side, my sister was there and got my water bottle and some pain killer right away. It isn't swollen and they don't think it's much, just a pulled muscle. For a pulled muscle...this sucker hurts! (the next day up date at the bottom)
I'm worried about going back now. Not because I'll get hurt again. I'm worried if I can stand to be on skates for two hours while working muscles that don't like being worked.
We were doing knee taps. For anyone that doesn't know what knee taps are you go down, tap one knee on the ground and quickly get up again...all of this while still skating and moving forward. If you stop (which I did...a lot!) you're not doing it right.
Doing a relay, we skated, t-stop, skated, knee tap, skated, rock star, then skated back as fast as possible ending in a one knee slide to high five the next person in line. The first time around I was way better than I thought I would be and I was proud of myself. Then we had to go again. My t-stop was worse (which I suck at them anyways) then came the one knee tap. I went down, pushed on my toe to come back up and rolled my ankle. A large pop and that's all it took for me to curl in a ball on the floor. With my skate off I felt so much better and ready to get back up...until I got up. Shooting pain went into my calf until I started walking a bit more. Then I felt pretty good the rest of the night. The more I move today - the better it feels, but I'm so scared to push it.
I'm proud that I wanted to get up and finish practice. I'm proud that I walked it off as much as I could. I'm not so proud of how scared I am to go back to practice on Sunday. I can't walk without a limp...how am I suppose to go to practice?
Vocab Time:
T-stop: A way to stop skating. Place one foot behind the other forming a T. Gently squeeze with your butt and your thighs to pull your back foot close, making yourself stop and the "T".
Rock Star: A way to fall. Drag one toe letting yourself gently glide to one knee, then gently place your other knee down and slide like a rock star would!
One-knee Slide: A way to fall. Like the rock star, but you only put the one knee down and slide until you stop.
Update: It's been two days since I hurt my ankle and my sister is finally making me go to urgent care. I worked yesterday and I came home to rest...later that night my ankle bone was swollen. This morning it is still swollen and still hurts. It was going to happen. I have to go to urgent care. That also means...no skating Sunday. The plus side of that is I get to rest up for my audition on Tuesday for the DCP. Hopefully I will be well enough to dance...at least pull through for a while. Hopefully it'll be nothing, but a sprain, but until the pain goes away...I'm afraid no more skating for me.
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