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.

feet are frustrating sometimes

so I had a doctor's appointment yesterday and in the midst of it, it occurred to me to ask him about my black toenails and if they needed to be drained or anything (he said no) but then he asked if I put arch inserts in my skates and I was like "no, but I am intrigued as to why I might" and he said that if I did that, it would hold my foot in place better and and I said "oh that is a very good idea" and he said that he could give me the name of the guy he uses to help fit his ski boots and I said "yes I would like that" and so I got it and I have an appointment next week.  We'll see what he says.

#72 and #73

First games of the home season went well!  Fell a few times (once when I was taken out by a skater, once when I just fell for no reason - guess which one gave me the bruise).  Made some calls.  Didn't die.

Sunday was an open scrimmage hosted by my league - I HRed the first half.  There was one point where one of the jammers must've thought that the jam was over, because left the track, taking off the star.  The jam actually ended shortly after that, and my thought process went something like hm, that was weird, he just sort of wandered off the track....which is a skating out of bounds penalty oh crap I have to go over and assign that to him.

I definitely have things to work on when doing inside pack stuff.  

Going to Toronto this weekend for another doubleheader (OPR an other game, JR a sanctioned) and then there's a scrimmage in Buffalo Sunday morning.  I can stay at my dad's on Saturday night, so I'll probably go to that.

When you're an official there's SO MUCH DERBY YOU CAN DO.