How do you work the clock in a close game?

2011 All-Star Team Captain, Method of Madness, will cover some basic strategy that will help you get your team all on the same page when you’re in tough situations on the track.

Register here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/218914

FAQS
Q: Is this open to junior skaters?
A: Yes, but due to insurance stipulations, juniors can only engage in contact with other juniors. Although the Clinic is not specifically geared towards hitting most drills have some contact assumed in order to simulate real game play. In drills junior derby skaters will be paired with other junior derby skaters.

Q: What skill level is required to attend?
A: Clinics are for beginning to intermediate derby skaters. The WFTDA minimum skills are a good gauge although not a requirement. We ask that you can skate using crossovers, safely fall, safely give and receive a hit.

Q: Is this co-ed?
A: Not this time. These clinics will be for women only. Stay tuned for possible co-ed events in the future–the All-Stars love hitting guys around!

This camp is for both novice derby players, and beginning skaters, with separate sessions available for each. Whether you’re new on skates or fully comfortable on wheels, played a little derby or never even been in a competitive sport – all are welcome!

Full details are available here!

Who would invite a Rat into their restaurant?  Chef/author John Howie would, and with open arms.  Of course, the Rats do have to meet certain standards – they should be female and on roller skates.  Howie has invited The Rat City Roller Girls into SPORT Restaurant & Bar as co-hosts for a night of sips, snacks and signings to raise funding and awareness for DAWN, the Domestic Abuse Women’s Network.  The event will be held on Friday, May 4 from 7 to 9 pm and tickets will include admission, two signature cocktails inspired by the Rat Pack, light appetizers, an opportunity to meet some of the team stars and a raffle for great prizes.  Priced at $20 per person, $5 from each ticket will go to Dawn as will all of the proceeds from the $5 raffle tickets.

“The Roller City Rat Girls are an amazing group of female athletes,” says Howie.  “They exert the same amount of energy to community outreach as they do to competing (which is considerable!).  We are very excited to partner with them on this event as DAWN is a charity we both feel strongly about assisting.”

DAWN’s mission is to lead and support efforts in south King County communities to end domestic violence by providing the critical services and education for survivors to make informed choices about their future and engaging communities to raise awareness and take action. 

To get things rolling, guests can purchase advance tickets over the phone by calling SPORT at (206) 404-7767 or in person at the restaurant, located at 140 – 4^th Ave. No., Suite 130, Seattle 98109. Rat City fan favorite team members will attend in full regalia and be available for signings and fan photos.  Tickets are limited. 

April’s exciting Rat City Rollergirls playoff action has finished up after a great night of roller derby. Playoffs done, Championships set!
We’ve got ourselves a couple of rematches from last year’s Championship bout! With wins in April, Danger and the TRs have punched their tickets to Champs!

Snappy summary if you missed the night’s events: in the early bout, overcoming an early run by the Wenches, Grave Danger took the win 177-110. The second bout was a very back-and-forth game but the Throttle Rockets came out on top over DLF at the end of 60 minutes: 162-118

Season 8, Bout 4 MVPs:
Derby Liberation Front: AviHater
Grave Danger: Iron Megan
Sockit Wenches: Sami Automatic
Throttle Rockets: Killah Kelly

But the excitement is not yet over – the stage is set for quite a championship bout as Grave Danger and the Throttle Rockets take play to the next level!

May 19th, Rat City will return again to KeyArena. First, the grunge match will feature DLF and the Sockit Wenches looking to finish with a big win – it may only be pride on the line, but don’t think that means they won’t be playing all out!

Then we move to the finale of the 2012 Rat City home team season – as April’s winners Grave Danger and the Throttle Rockets face off in the Championship Bout! Can Danger repeat as Rat City Champions? Or will the Throttle Rockets stop them, to hoist the trophy themselves? Make sure you’re in KeyArena to see it happen! Season 8 all comes down to this!

Tickets are available now on Ticketmaster.com or in-person at the Key Arena box office or Fast Girl Skates.

Come one, come all to the Rat City Rollergirls Season 8 Playoffs, April 21 at 5:30pm!

Our favorite purveyors of saucy, cheesy, meaty carbs, Zeek’s Pizza, is the night’s presenting sponsor. In addition, Derby Liberation Front have partnered with the Marginal Way Skate Park, and RCRG will be donating a portion of the night’s proceeds to them.

Tickets are available now on Ticketmaster.com or in-person at the Key Arena box office or Fast Girl Skates.

Roller derby is one of the only modern day female sports that is not overshadowed by a larger more successful male counterpart. The rebirth of roller derby started as a grass root, do-it-yourself sport based on the old game. It’s now a widespread competitive sport phenomenon that has exploded from two leagues in the United States in 2003, to 1,082 leagues in 37 countries today. Modern derby differs from its 1970’s predecessor in that the games are no longer staged, scripted or predetermined.

Teams competing in the Glendale Invitational will include the Arizona Derby Dames of Phoenix, AZ; the Charm City Roller Girls of Baltimore, MD; the Orange County Roller Girls of Huntington Beach, CA; and the Rat City Roller Girls of Seattle, WA.

As was the case for the Inaugural ProRollerDerby Chicago Invitational in November of 2011, the 2012 ProRollerDerby Invitational live from Glendale, Arizona will feature teams from leagues who compete on both the flat track and banked track. The Arizona Derby Dames and the Orange County Roller Girls are their city’s premiere banked track roller derby leagues. Likewise, the Charm City Roller Girls and the Rat City Roller Girls are the premier leagues in their cities for flat track roller derby competition. This will be the first time that these four teams will meet each other to play a full length bout on roller derby’s most exciting stage, the banked track.

The ProRollerDerby Invitational event at Jobing.com Arena will feature two bouts each day of the tournament. On Friday, April 6 ProRollerDerby will feature a matinee bout between the Orange County Roller Girls and Charm City Roller Girls and an evening bout between the Arizona Derby Dames and the Rat City Roller Girls. On Saturday, April 7, the losers from each of Friday’s bouts will play each other for third place. The winners from Friday advance to the pursed Championship bout. These exciting matches will start at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. each day of the tournament.

To watch Grave Danger dominate the banked track watch here: justin.tv/prorollerderby

Our tryouts will start at 10am and are run at our practice facility in Ballard. Expect a comprehensive skating workout and an offskates fitness test (so bring your sneakers!) After the sweaty portion of your morning, the tryout panel conducts short interviews with our candidates to learn more about you and what you’d bring to Rat City.

Sound like a good way to spend Saturday morning? Check out our tryouts page to get more information and register now!

See you on the track!

The early bout saw the Sockit Wenches take on the Throttle Rockets. The Wenches raced out to an early lead, but it didn’t take the TRs too long to fire up the afterburners and it was 77 TRs, 47 Wenches at the half. About 10 minutes into the second half, both teams lost key players to expulsions in Missile America and Trouble Loves Mimi. As often is the case, this was a game of power jams and capitalizing on them and the Throttle Rocket jammers spent a just a wee bit less time in the box and got the win.

Final: TRs 135- SW 107

The late bout was Grave Danger and DLF battling it out for top seed going into the April playoffs. While Danger drew first blood, DLF’s trajectory as the comeback kids over the past 2 season was very much the trajectory of the bout– whenever Danger made a move with a scoring run, DLF answered back with a run of their own. GD 55 DLF 35 at the half. Danger grew that lead to 35 points midway through the second half, but DLF swung back and took the lead on a 29-point romp by DLF’s Full Nelson, taking advantage of a power jam and a light Danger pack. But in the next jam with less that five minutes left, the ReAnimateHer came back from the dead (or, well, out of the penalty box), to get lead jam, put a few points on the board, and take back the lead for Danger. Back and forth a few a more jams with it being a one-point game with 19 seconds on the clock. ReAnimateHer got a quick lead and 4 more points to put the nail in DLF coffin.

Final: GD 122- DLF 117

Come back to the Key April 21 to see all four teams battle it out for a berth in Championship game. Grave Danger faces the Sockit Wenches again and DLF plays the Throttle Rockets!

S8B3 MVPs:

Sockit Wenches: Belle Tolls

Throttle Rockets: Skate Pauli Girl

DLF: Full Nelson

Grave Danger: Jerrica Kallio (nee Mona Agony)

Clinics are open to junior and adult, female derby players. Future clinics will cover other derby skills including jamming, blocking, walls, and strategy! Throughout 2012, the Rat City Rollergirls will be offering lots of training opportunities for experienced players and aspiring rollergirls alike with this series of skill-specific clinics, intensive bootcamps, and our annual pre-tryout Makin’ Bacon camp, so stay tuned for upcoming events!

Mar 24: Blocking – Learn the art of one-on-one blocking. Know when to hit and when to sit. RCRG All-Star Shorty Ounce will share some tips and help you with the fundamentals of one-on-one blocking. Shorty is known for her quick plow stops and ability to hold back a jammer by herself at the front of the pack. We’ll work on timing and control and using the angles of the track to your advantage.

For tickets and info: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/218903