FMyLife #14: I H8 BALLS

Index finger was just feeling better.

Ring finger took over.

This weekend, we finally integrated a ball into gameplay, making much more sense than having a player acting like a pinball (duh!)

We had to change the rules a bit too. The track is rectangular with a basket at each end. The blockers have to dribble and pass the ball to each other in order to throw it into the basket.

We called it Roller Basket Ball. Because you put the ball into the basket with skates on (QED). I think it might become a popular discipline in the future. Maybe without the skates, though.

Training was fun. My finger didn't like it that much but hey... always complaining, that one! FML, it says.

Paris Vs. Toulouse: You say Revenge, we say Die!

Paris RollerGirls All-Stars (153-117) Nothing Toulouse
March 2nd, 2013 / Paris.

Paris, Bercy was the place to be on that Saturday, March 2nd. It held the long-awaited and not-to-be-missed French derby event of the 2013 season: The rematch of the Paris RollerGirls All Star and the Nothing Toulouse!

The first meeting dated from July 2011 and had witnessed a crushing double victory of the Parisians during the French Connection I tournament, gathering the three pioneer-leagues of Paris, Toulouse and Bordeaux.

But the French landscape has evolved a lot since then and, earlier this season, Paris was challenged by Toulouse to organize the meeting that would put back the French crown in play.

There is no official French cup (yet) and the so-called title comes from a general assessment only. Yet, it was a matter of honor and Paris took up the challenge to prove who the bosses are!

Our All Star game against Windsor two weeks before had been very welcome for us to experience a first bout under the new rules set and adapt to it. In between, we had the time to analyse and correct our main mistakes -- especially slow reformings of the pack, which irremediably led to out of plays or failures to reform... and to decimated packs and players waiting in line to serve their box sentences...