Paris RollerGirls Winter '12 Open Practice

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As part of the winter recruitment wave, the Paris RollerGirls open the doors of their gym for you to have a look at what Derby is and experience what it feels like to sit in the suicide zone around the track.

In-between the two workshops to prepare for the entrance test, you can go and witness the Monday evening 3-hour training in St. Denis, just like in last september when it went like THAT.

 

Open Practice

Monday Jan. 30th, 19:00 - 22:00

Gymnase Pasteur (10 rue Pasteur 93200 St. Denis)

Metro: St. Denis Université

Paris RollerGirls Winter Workshops

Future Freshmeats, this is the second (and last!) chance of the season for entering the Paris RollerGirls! We are organizing a Winter Session made of two Workshops and followed by an Entrance Test.

It will follow the same pattern as the Summer Session (which is fully explained in THIS ARTICLE). The principle is also described on the flyer here (click to enlarge):

The workshops are meant to explain the different skills that will be needed to pass the entrance test. The content of both workshops will be identical, browsing all the basic individual skills: falling, stopping, crossing, jumping.

The workshops will start with a short hour of Derby Rules run by our Refs, and the three hours of skating run by our Coaches will be preceded by an off-skates warm-up.

These workshops are not compulsory but are a good review to avoid surprises on the Entrance Test day, and are a good opportunity to meet some of the main protagonists of the league and to get an idea of the overall atmosphere.

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.