Coaching the Criminal Nurses

I made a detour on my way back home, after our ultimate game of the season in Dublin, to visit the CRIMINAL NURSES in Aubenas (FRA, 07). It was amusing to meet derby people who already knew about me before I started derby! Such a small world. Got less awkward once the presentations made.

OK, I know you are going to read this. It was a really comfortable 'awkward' though -- in a funnybot way. Honest, natural and just PERFECT:

Visiting the Leopard Avengers

This weekend I was in Caen (14) to visit the local Leopard Avengers for a Sunday Workshop in an amazing roller hockey hall, with a perfect smooth ground and a glass roof, which was part of an impressive sports complex, two steps away from the city hall downtown!

MY TRAIN WAS LATE.

I missed my 16:10 train so I took the next one.

Sunday Workshop in Angers

This weekend, I took the train to Angers (Fra, 49) to run a full-day workshop for the young local league. 

I arrived on Saturday evening, and was welcome by the two girls I was staying at and the coach. After a healthy dinner, we went for a teaching equipment "shopping" session at their practice place, before heading to the Irish pub nearby, where we met a few of the rollergirls who would attend the morrow's workshop.

The workshop gym was booked from 9 to 6, which left plenty of time to get organized, talk, eat, have breaks... We finally started at 10 after everybody had found where the gym was, which was pretty tricky on a foggy Sunday morning.

Paris RollerGirls Entrance Test



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What's the finality of new recruit workshops?

The Entrance Test!

To close the 4 workshops, the last being this Sunday (Sept.18), the test will take place on Oct. 2nd at Jules Noël Skatepark, a park under a dome tent, so that we just don't have to bother about the weather.

The test will be about all the drills that were explained during the workshops, to check the general skating ability of the girls. But if you know the basics of skating you don't have to worry: We're going to check if you know how to stop (T-stop, plow stop), how to fall (one knee, two knees, four points, 180° fall), how to jump (10cm), and how to slalom (10 cones, 180cm wide).

As for the equipment, unlike for the workshops, this time quad skates are compulsory, as well as the rest of the protections (knees, elbows, wrists, helmet, and mouthguard).

If you don't have all of these at home, you can still have a look at Hawaii Surf and you should find what you need!

If you're interested in taking the test,

just send an e-mail (compulsory) at recrutement@parisrollergirls.com.