PRG Rookies: The New Generation

Thanks to our Fall Workshops, a small dozen of girls have been detected and enlisted in the league. 

The workshops were pretty successfull despite the late communication.

The concept had been completely revised compared to last year's... revised upwards. 

Not because we are becoming snobbish, but because our league's overall level is (hopefully) improving and we are (unfortunately) lacking indoors official time slots, so that we cannot split the slots or the gym into two to train too different levels.

Last year, the minimum required was basic skating skills, and we would enlist the new girls and validate their agility part of the minimum skills test at the same time.

This time, we were looking for girls who were already agile and who either mastered the derby interactive skills or had the potential and the skating level to learn fast.

Paris RollerGirls 2012 Fall Workshops

Dimanche 7 octobre by Kozmic Bruise
Dimanche 21 octobre by Cherry Lielie
14h-18h

Stages de 4 heures encadrés par les Head Coaches PRG, comprenant un échauffement en baskets, un cours de patinage avec accent sur les bases du patin et du derby, ainsi qu'un atelier de règles sur le derby.

Ces stages ne sont pas adressés à des patineurs et patineuses débutant(e)s, mais sont ouverts à tou(te)s:

Prétendantes au recrutement
Quaddeurs et Quaddeuses novices en derby
Derbygirls et boys de toutes ligues

Paris RollerGirls Winter '12 Open Practice

Shot: Gosh -- thegoshphotographies.blogspot.com | Art: Koz

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 Summer Workshops



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In order for the new recruits to get ready for the integration test, the Paris RollerGirls organize workshops in August and September.

The integration test, the MIST (Minimum Individual Skills Test), is a mere security formality. It will deal with skating basics such as falling, stopping, jumping, crossing... The workshops are not compulsory, but they are meant to point out and explain the drills that will be specifically needed for the MIST.

The idea is that as a Derby League, the Paris RollerGirls are going to teach you how to Derby, not how to Skate, so that you need to have a basic skating level to start the real stuff :)

The workshops will be run by qualified Coaches (Amelia Scareheart, Kozmic Bruise and Wheely Wonka) with their assistants (Cherry LieLie, Joan Get27 and Truck-Off Pooky) for the On-Skate part; and by the Paris Refs (Brute et Peste, Maëlstrom and Watzé) for the Rules part.

All the sessions will have the same content -- you can see the program on the flyer -- but run by different coaches so that there will be different hindsights to the drills. They will take place on Sundays from 11AM to 3PM, i.e. a short Off-Skates to warm up, 3hrs. On Skates and 1hr. of Basic Rules. Check out the flyer for the dates!