So Denver has their very own roller derby team called the Roller Dolls. We went last night and it was quite the experience. When you think of roller derby, or at least when I think of roller derby, I think of crazy, tough chicks out there knocking each other down and stuff. Well get that thought out of your mind. It is an actual sport we found out, and it has a huge following.
How it works is there are 5 girls from each team that start out as a group. Behind them is one girl from each team called the jammer. So on the first whistle the pack starts off and 5 seconds later another whistle signals the jammers to start skating. The jammers are trying to get into the front of the pack, this is where there is some pushing and girls are falling down, you know the fun part. Well once one of the jammers get in the front they have to skate really fast to catch up with the pack again and then they get points for as many girls of the opposing team they can pass. Pretty cool. It was pretty fun to see the big girls just dominate the skinny girls. They all had different names too, the one jammer that was really good was call Amanda Jamin -it-in-ya. Very nice
