BCRD A Team Try-Outs

It must have been planned for weeks and posted all over podio, but I only learnt about it last week: on Saturday there were the A-Team Try-Outs. OMG do we have to register? Did I miss the dead-line? Nope, just show up. The training will be closely observed by coaches Master Blaster, Bee Fattal and Daniel.

Until now the selections were based on continuous assessment along the preceding months only. The tryouts completing that assessment were (re)implemented for the first time for that season.

A dozen of players showed up to try their luck. The training was divided into three parts and felt a bit like a SUPERADVANCED MINIMUM SKILLS TEST. The agility skills were actually more challenging and more complete than those required for the Team France Try-Outs.

FMyLife #10 : Docs & Biceps

Annual visit to doctor for sports certificate to get French Federation licence.

Door of waiting room opens, doc calls my name. Backpack on shoulder and skates in hand, I head towards the doc with free arm straight for a handshake...

... Guess who kisses me hello on both cheeks? I know it's very French, but I can assure you that no matter how long you've known your doc (for yearly visits) even in France, it feels like "err-- okay" awkward.

Welcomes me in and follows me to his desk when he adds in a confessing tone that "[he] ha[d] always been jealous of [my] biceps". Eyebrow rising. Haha. Thanks!

Let's do the physical test, shall we?

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Gonna miss the view...

My room.

Single room with balcony and bay window onto the ocean.

Sunset at 5-ish just when I finished my classes.

Seriously, would shower with the door open to admire the view!

...and the atmosphere

...and the people

...and the working like mad

...and the food

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.

New PRG Graduates

Today was the awaited day of the second part of the Minimum Skills test for our Freshmeats who entered the league in February.

After three months of Freshmeat training, run by yours truly, ten of them took AND passed the test. A first at PRG's: 100% of success. Mother hen is proud of her chicks!

Let's welcome to the next level:

• Bloody Flow
• Calamity Flave
• Céline (Get a derby name!)
• Charlize Daemon
• GG Ell'n
• Lemon Jools
• Marty McFight
• Psykko Sugar Kane
• La Puta Del Fuego
• Thalassa Strykninn

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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.

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Thank God it's NOT my measurements, but my results for a physical recovery test.

This morning I went to the doctor for the annual appointment to get my medical certificate proving I'm allowed to do sports...

He made me do the Ruffier-Dickson Test to ckeck my capacity to adapt to a physical effort. The test is very basic and you must have experienced it at least once in your life.

The test is run following three steps :

1. Take your Heart Rate at rest on 1 minute (sitting or laying down) (P1)
2. Make 30 up & down knee flexions within 45 sec with the feet flat on the floor.Take your HR on 15 sec (P2)
3. Rest 1 minute, and take your Heart Rate (P3)

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.

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!