Siege of CNY review

Had a great time.  Drank lots of chocolate milk, finally lost my big toenail (in probably the least painful way possible - an hour and a half in the hotel pool and hot tub made that thing REALLY PLIABLE) officiated a buncha games, hung out with fantastic people.

Next weekend?  Beast of the East!

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED

so for the last however long I've been doing roller derby-related skating stuff (8 years, nine months), I have tried, and tried, and tried, and failed, and failed, and failed, at doing a hockey stop.  I'd always just end up spinning around (or falling).  I'd try all sorts of different techiniques, I'd go slow, I'd go fast, still spin spin spin.

Last night, though?  I don't know if it was the fact that my skates fit again, or a combination of the floor and my wheels, but I kept doing hockey stop after hockey stop.  It was weird.

I feel like my URL is no longer accurate, but I don't wanna change it

so one more weekend (more or less; I might help out in Buffalo on Friday night) with no derby, and then ALL THE DERBY:

4/22-23: Siege of CNY
4/29-30: Beast of the East
5/6-7: Buffalo games I might help with
5/13: Home doubleheader
5/20-21: Away game in Cleveland Saturday, might help in Buffalo on Sunday

It's absolutely beautiful here today - temps in the 70s.  I might need to put my outdoor wheels on my old skates and tool around the neighborhood. I do think I need to get new bearings, though - mine are really gross.

yay!

it worked!  it worked!  there's plenty of space for my toes in my skates now.  I don't need to throw my skates out the window!  hooray!

so

Apparently I have the minimum requirements to apply to be an OPR at D2 Playoffs/Champs this summer.

Took my skates to get looked at by the foot guy; he said he'd try to stretch them out so I'd have more room across the tops of my toes.  I'm picking them up tomorrow; we'll see what happens.