Amsterdam Derby Dames

The venue was absolutely packed, the atmosphere was great and the crowd rocked! Our first home bout exceeded our expectations in many ways: thank you ALL for making this happen. The bout ended with a score of 105 – 69, so the Amsterdam Derby Dames won. We are so proud of our team.

It was a superb bout to watch, too – The Roller Girls of the Apocalypse made our girls work hard for their victory. And boy, did they have nice outfits! They brought many fans with them, quite a few of them dressed up in line with our Superheroes theme. Awesome to see. The dressing-up competition was won by Super Derby Girl and the cutest Spiderman ever: we will see them again, because they got 2 tickets for our next home bout, of which details will be announced soon.

In the course of this week we will post a more detailed, action-focused article, so those of you who weren’t there can see what was going on. But for such an article we need pictures, and our photographers are working on them as we speak. For now…..enjoy this lovely picture of Jamakaze who makes her way through two RGA skaters, while the Jammer for RGA is being held back by a wall of three ADD blockers.

We’ve had another great mixed scrimmage last Saturday – a huge THANK YOU to all refs, NSOs and derby girls that travelled to Amsterdam despite the adverse weather conditions.

We had some special guests present, too. A BNN film crew was filming an item for the Dutch national television programme ‘De Week van Filemon’. The host of the show, Filemon Wesselink, watched us scrimmage while the game was explained to him. After our own Dirty Job and Furrrocious gave him a crash-course on the basic skills, he even joined us on the track for a couple of jams. We were impressed with his courage to participate and to take some hits in his very first few laps as a jammer. He did well, and we cannot wait for it to be broadcast. Obviously, we will announce it as soon as we have been notified.

Picture by Branko Collin

Picture by Tara Flach

For those anxious to see some Roller Derby action on telly, please tune in to RTL5 on Wednesday 8 February 20.30 to watch Whip It!