Sunday, July 31, 2011

10 Things I Learned This Weekend - BCR vs. Regulators

10. There is such a thing as a full moon in Georgia... in the middle of the day.

9. A crowded bar that plays 8 Metallica songs in a row so loud that you can't talk over it is not a good after-party venue, no matter how cheap the PBR.

8. Don't dare tell Amyn you have sweet tea if it's not real sweet tea. She WILL try to get all up in your kitchen and handle that business.

7. Savannah is not only an awesome city, it's also full of awesome derby girls.

6. The phrase "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink" applies as well to drunk derby girls as it does to anything else.

5. Murphy's Law corollary: if you have four women in a car on a road trip, the number of times they will have to stop and pee is inversely proportional to how much they have actually drank.

4. It's not all about winning... but it feels pretty damn good when you do, especially when you know you're the odds are against you.

3. Teamwork trumps ego every time. Roller derby is not a single player game. If you make a great hit on an opposing blocker to make yourself feel good at the expense of stopping her jammer, then you're doin' it wrong.

2. BCR got game... no matter how long it took us to find it.

1. Mindset is the most important thing about derby. If you go out on the track and flip your shit, you won't play the kind of game you want to. Ever.