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Let’s turn this whole town purple and orange!

johubris — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:07:13 +0000

So after the absolutely fantastically amazingly vicious bout between Smash Malice and Brutal Pageant on Saturday (Hadyn has a good write-up and pics of it), it’s time for the girls to voltronise themselves together to form Richter City (woo!) to take on Auckland’s Pirate City Rollers (boo hiss!). The match is on December 5, and you’ve got to be there. Along with making signs, we’re hoping y’all will join us in dressing in orange and purple to show your support. How rad would it be if the whole audience did it? Here’s what I’d be wearing, if someone else was paying:

Richter City vs. Auckland by johubris featuring gravitypope

So we’ll see you there, right?

Win tickets to Civil Offence!

johubris — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:43:07 +0000

Thanks to the lovely Thigh Voltage, we have a double pass to give away to Civil Offence Roller Derby which is happening this Saturday from 6pm at the TSB Arena. We’ll draw it Friday morning so that in case you don’t win, you’ll still have plenty of time to get your tickets before the event.

In order to win, just leave us a comment telling us what you’ll wear to the event. You’ve seen our suggestions, now we wanna see yours! Leopardskin for Smash Malice? Or pink & red for Brutal Pageant?

(Also, holy crap, what am I going to wear? I feel I have set the bar very very high…)

Roller Derby Outfits revealed

johubris — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:57:09 +0000

Remember how we gave you suggestions about what to wear to Skate of Emergency? Turns out some of youse guys really took our advice to heart. I will suggest that if you want to see really good photos & action shots you go look at Jed’s, but if you want to see hott girls and hott outfits taken by me, then keep on reading.

First up, there’s me!

The bustier is from Hips and Curves, the rest is ezibuy/farmers, with headscarf made by the lovely Amy.
More pics after the jump…

The lovely merch girls

Real Hot Bitch Crotch

Our beloved PPP readers Theresa and Julie dressed to support Brutal Pageant. Suckers.

Delilah Von Doom from SMASH MALICE (you can tell where my allegiances lie)

Thigh Voltage, aka Kate Cutting Shapes

Our lovely Megan, who was working the score-board.

Lux Vengence, Rita Anguish and M.E.O.W. You can see by their costumes that I did pretty well with my dressing suggestions.

Some awesome fans. I like the way that they’ve split their allegiances too.

Me with Suffer Jet and Perky Nah Nah. They were all “You should join! We need big girls to block for us when we take on Auckland!” I was almost drunk enough to go “omg I totally should!” but honestly, I injure myself getting out of bed (and into bed too, but that’s another story…), there is no way I could ever survive Roller Derby.

But I’ll tell you what though – I can’t bloody wait until the next bout on October 10. But what am I going to wear???

Roller derby pics

pretty — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 05:53:17 +0000

My oh my, the roller derby bout on Saturday was so exciting. It was held in Wellington between Smash Malice and Brutal Pageant. Brutal Pageant won after an intensely fought match. Read more about the bout here.

And see all the excitement on Jed Soane’s flickr set.

More hype before Skate of Emergency

johubris — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:32:45 +0000

What are you going to do wear to the Roller Derby?

johubris — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:33:37 +0000

We’ve talked before about Roller Derby, and how fantastic the girls who do it are. We’ve told you to buy your tickets. Now we’d like to offer some suggestions as to how you should dress for the event on September 19. Obviously, you want to be comfortable. It’s licensed, so you may be drinking beer, but then you will have to negotiate portaloos. You may be sitting on the ground or on bleachers, so you don’t want anything too tight. There are many many attractive people in attendance who you may wish to try and pick up, so you have to dress to impress as well – if you’re in to that sort of thing. And then there’s the really important issue – do you support Smash Malice or Brutal Pagaent???

I’ve had a play around on Polyvore today, so let me offer up some suggestions for each team supporter:

Roller Derby Outfits: Brutal Pageant by johubris featuring Converse shoes

Roller Derby: Smash Malice by johubris featuring Nordstrom bracelets

Check out the new roller derby poster

pretty — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:18:29 +0000

Get your roller derby tix

pretty — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:57:19 +0000

The pretties whole-heartedly support the girls of Wellington’s Richter City Roller Derby. I’ve got my tickets. The next Wellington roller derby bout (is set for Saturday 19th September. Tickets only cost $12 from undertheradar. You better get your skates on soon though because the last bout sold out. Keep updated here.

More roller derby darlings

pretty — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:13:47 +0000

Ginger Tonyx from the Richter City Roller Derby twittered about wickedskatewear.com today. They seem to ship internationally so we’re in luck! Look at all these pretty things for sale:

Tulle Petticoats, Long Socks, Sasquatch leg warmers and more!

Roller Derby girls

pretty — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:13:02 +0000

You may recall our post about Ginger Tonix from the Richter City Rollers. Well I finally got to see these roller derby girls in person at the Richter City Rollers grading day this week. These girls are awesome. With race names like Tuff Bikkies, Lux Vengence, Sneaky Darkie, Suffer Jet and so on. In fact, roller derby race names have to be registered, and here’s the database of registered names.

Uniforms are typically stripey socks, fishnets, frilly knickers and leopard skin. Plus ‘tude, lots of ‘tude. Most of the kiwi girls get their roller derby gear from sincityskates.com.

The grading seemed to go well – lots of enthusiastic ladies showing their super skate skills. While there was too many press-ups for my liking, the skating drills, falling drills, and blocking drills looked so much fun.

If you wanna join the Richter City Rollers in Welly team check them out here, else here’s some other links to NZ leagues:

Auckland – Pirate City Rollers www.piratecityrollers.com
Christchurch – Dead End Derby www.deadendderby.com
Taranaki – Taranaki Roller Corps www.myspace.com/newplymouthrollerderby
Northland – Northland Nightmares www.bebo.com/NorthlandN
Hamilton – HELLmilton Roller Derby http://www.myspace.com/hellmilton666

Or if you just wanna find out more about the sport check out Fieldtheory on publicaddress.net.

PS I thought of a roller derby name for myself – Sockin’ Awe. What’s yours?