Ok ok ok, maybe not on the track, but tonight I will be back on the infield and start coaching again. Just five weeks before our summer stop. I'm very excited about being actively involved with our girls again instead of just behind the scenes on the board of our league.
Also, this saturday we will be part of the On Board Festival. Which means we get to mingle on skates and play some jams on our old make shift outdoor track. It's basically a basketball field on asphalts which never gets used for basketball, so we want the city to poor us a concrete track there in stead. It's right next to the new concrete skatepark that opened last summer. It's where we belong!
May 24, 2012
May 15, 2012
I smell fresh meat!
Last saturday was great! It was the first time since my operation that I was standing on the infield coaching others again and it felt good. What made it even better was that it was our try out day and we had a whole bunch of freshies on wheels. They were amazing! Throwing themselves at the floor on command, trying out the feeling of crossovers, skating a pace line, they were just great! I really hope that many of them will continue (if not all, that would be even better!).
Unfortunately I don't have any pics. Someone was there taking pics, but I haven't seen them yet.
Unfortunately I don't have any pics. Someone was there taking pics, but I haven't seen them yet.
May 8, 2012
Science behind roller derby?
Hello derby world! I want your help!
In a previous post you could read that my ultimate dream (professionally) is to become the link between roller derby and medical/movement/sports science. No better time to start with that than now. Now is the time in my education where I have to start sketching the thesis that will help me to get my degree in physiotherapy.
The world is covered in thousands and thousands of flat track roller derby players and I would like for that community to come together and help me still our hunger for knowledge. Right now most of the knowledge we use to base our trainings and rules on is based on sports medicine based on other sports. We are not 19 year old hockey athletes, nor extreme marathon runners. We are a unique mix of well trained, less trained, highly motivated or recreationally playing women (leaving merby out for this purpose) with or without other sports in our backgrounds. We play on quads which demands different things of our bodies than ice-skates, running shoes or inlines.
At some stage during the next 6 months I will send out a (anonymous) questionnaire and I sincerely hope that every single one of you will fill it out. This questionnaire might contain questions about your athletic past, how long you've been playing derby, how often and how you train but most of all injuries you might have suffered during your derby career and possibly before.
To make this more interesting for everybody I'd like some input on which question you think my thesis should answer. Possible questions include:
* What is the main type of injury sustained in FTRD (flat track roller derby)?
* Which player has the highest risk for injury in FTRD? (could correlate to background, age, body type, training hours, type of training, position she plays, etc)
* When in a derby career exists the highest risk for injury? (fresh meat period, first bouting season, top national/international level skating) (why then? what's different to the other periods?)
* What is the average recovery time for derby injuries? (additional questions could be, why so long/short?, how to define "recovered"?)
* ???
I understand that many of these questions seem unnecessary, because we know the answers either by using common sense or by looking at what's happening in your own league or country. But to be able to answer the more interesting questions we need to create a scientific base line first. We need to have proven that a certain statement is true before we can use that statement to do research on why that statement is true, if you get what I mean.
You can reach me with anything you'd like to tell me concerning this thesis (question to answer, research that's been done already (derby specific), your personal story, email addresses to send the questionnaire to, etc) on Facebook, via e-mail: m.pauelsen@gmail.com or just by leaving a comment here.
Thank you so much!
In a previous post you could read that my ultimate dream (professionally) is to become the link between roller derby and medical/movement/sports science. No better time to start with that than now. Now is the time in my education where I have to start sketching the thesis that will help me to get my degree in physiotherapy.
The world is covered in thousands and thousands of flat track roller derby players and I would like for that community to come together and help me still our hunger for knowledge. Right now most of the knowledge we use to base our trainings and rules on is based on sports medicine based on other sports. We are not 19 year old hockey athletes, nor extreme marathon runners. We are a unique mix of well trained, less trained, highly motivated or recreationally playing women (leaving merby out for this purpose) with or without other sports in our backgrounds. We play on quads which demands different things of our bodies than ice-skates, running shoes or inlines.
At some stage during the next 6 months I will send out a (anonymous) questionnaire and I sincerely hope that every single one of you will fill it out. This questionnaire might contain questions about your athletic past, how long you've been playing derby, how often and how you train but most of all injuries you might have suffered during your derby career and possibly before.
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| Most common derby injury? |
To make this more interesting for everybody I'd like some input on which question you think my thesis should answer. Possible questions include:
* What is the main type of injury sustained in FTRD (flat track roller derby)?
* Which player has the highest risk for injury in FTRD? (could correlate to background, age, body type, training hours, type of training, position she plays, etc)
* When in a derby career exists the highest risk for injury? (fresh meat period, first bouting season, top national/international level skating) (why then? what's different to the other periods?)
* What is the average recovery time for derby injuries? (additional questions could be, why so long/short?, how to define "recovered"?)
* ???
I understand that many of these questions seem unnecessary, because we know the answers either by using common sense or by looking at what's happening in your own league or country. But to be able to answer the more interesting questions we need to create a scientific base line first. We need to have proven that a certain statement is true before we can use that statement to do research on why that statement is true, if you get what I mean.
You can reach me with anything you'd like to tell me concerning this thesis (question to answer, research that's been done already (derby specific), your personal story, email addresses to send the questionnaire to, etc) on Facebook, via e-mail: m.pauelsen@gmail.com or just by leaving a comment here.
Thank you so much!
May 5, 2012
Tagged by Swede
So... Yeah... I don't normally like these types of things, BUT some of the questions that Swede posed are actually interesting and fun to answer. Apart from the first one.. that's a hard one..
Who inspires you the most?
See, I don't really get inspired by people. Not because I think they are crap, but just because I realize they have a very different life from me and different circumstances before I even get a chance of thinking: I want that too. I can admire them, but not get inspired to go in a same direction or do something similar. As an example Bonnie D.Stroir. I admire her for being able to turn derby into a living. But I don't want the same thing.
In stead I actually get inspired by myself. Not in the arrogant "I'm great so I want to be me" way, but I often take time for myself. I am one of those people that need and crave that. You know, moments in which you just sit and let your mind wander, have conversations with yourself, convince non-present people of your ideas, that sort of thing. It's in those moments I get my ideas, my inspiration and my drive.
What is the wildest thing you have done?
I think that what ever counts as wildest kind of depends on where you are from. Not counting coffee, alcohol, nicotine and meds I have done three different kinds of drugs (loooong time ago), but when you're from Holland that's not that wild. I've been kicked out of a club in Florence for making out with a girl. Again, not so wild in most countries, but apparently really wild and illegal in Florence. I think the wildest has been my move to Sweden, strangely enough. I was a single mom with a girl of 5, gave up my rental place, packed everything I could fit in a large van, put my daughter on a plan with my mother and drove by myself in one go from The Hague to Eskilstuna. It was great! Empowering, free and scary as hell at the same time. It's a difficult decision when you don't just make it for yourself but for your child as well. It turned out to be the absolute best I could have ever done both for her and me.
Relationship to rollerderby/rollerskating?
Very much a love-hate-one at the moment. I want to play! But I can't just now and the question is if I ever will play at the level I want to play. Because I love the sport and the people I'm staying involved anyways, but it's hard. It's like when I worked at a horse riding school. You're in constant contact with it, because you love it, but you can't do any of the fun stuff yourself.
What about kids?
I have one daughter who is 11 years old but acts as if she's 14 years old. She already picked her derby name for when she gets old enough to be allowed to play: strawberry killer!! And then she assumes derby stance and does a cute litle growl. In the mean time she wanted to have inlines instead of quads because that's what her friends have. She moved to Sweden with me when she was about to turn 6 and just yesterday her teacher told me that you wouldn't believe that Swedish is not her mother's tongue. We're getting into the stage of her life that I have been most scared of ever since she was born. She's a lot like me, which freaks me out. Yes I turned out ok, but the way there wasn't over roses.
Love or money?
Love, always. And not because that is what you are supposed to say. It's how I live my life. It's why I don't have the money to travel around Europe all the time and play derby everywhere. ;)
City or mountains?
Ocean!
In The Hague I lived a 10 minute bike ride away from the sandy beach to the Northsea. It's the only thing I miss from Holland. A sandy beach with salty waves and tides. No matter the season, there's always something nice to get at the beach.
Future goals?
I want to become a doctor in philosophy, with the direction of physiotherapy. That's my goal. My dream is to then become THE link between movement/sport science and roller derby. Most sports have a scientific base behind them where you can find information on how to improve even more and how to prevent injuries. Whilst some (!) in roller derby have that knowledge, that knowledge is based on the science which is directed at OTHER sports. I want to create that knowledge based on science about roller derby.
And now it's time to be lame: I really like these questions, so I'm not gonna create any new ones. I will also not go out and actively tag people. I think that about 7 people might be reading this blogg, so if you've read it, consider yourself tagged. Unless You're Swede, because I won't tag back. ;)
Thanks for tagging me Swede, as I said, these were great questions to answer! :)
Who inspires you the most?
See, I don't really get inspired by people. Not because I think they are crap, but just because I realize they have a very different life from me and different circumstances before I even get a chance of thinking: I want that too. I can admire them, but not get inspired to go in a same direction or do something similar. As an example Bonnie D.Stroir. I admire her for being able to turn derby into a living. But I don't want the same thing.
In stead I actually get inspired by myself. Not in the arrogant "I'm great so I want to be me" way, but I often take time for myself. I am one of those people that need and crave that. You know, moments in which you just sit and let your mind wander, have conversations with yourself, convince non-present people of your ideas, that sort of thing. It's in those moments I get my ideas, my inspiration and my drive.
What is the wildest thing you have done?
I think that what ever counts as wildest kind of depends on where you are from. Not counting coffee, alcohol, nicotine and meds I have done three different kinds of drugs (loooong time ago), but when you're from Holland that's not that wild. I've been kicked out of a club in Florence for making out with a girl. Again, not so wild in most countries, but apparently really wild and illegal in Florence. I think the wildest has been my move to Sweden, strangely enough. I was a single mom with a girl of 5, gave up my rental place, packed everything I could fit in a large van, put my daughter on a plan with my mother and drove by myself in one go from The Hague to Eskilstuna. It was great! Empowering, free and scary as hell at the same time. It's a difficult decision when you don't just make it for yourself but for your child as well. It turned out to be the absolute best I could have ever done both for her and me.
Relationship to rollerderby/rollerskating?
Very much a love-hate-one at the moment. I want to play! But I can't just now and the question is if I ever will play at the level I want to play. Because I love the sport and the people I'm staying involved anyways, but it's hard. It's like when I worked at a horse riding school. You're in constant contact with it, because you love it, but you can't do any of the fun stuff yourself.
What about kids?
I have one daughter who is 11 years old but acts as if she's 14 years old. She already picked her derby name for when she gets old enough to be allowed to play: strawberry killer!! And then she assumes derby stance and does a cute litle growl. In the mean time she wanted to have inlines instead of quads because that's what her friends have. She moved to Sweden with me when she was about to turn 6 and just yesterday her teacher told me that you wouldn't believe that Swedish is not her mother's tongue. We're getting into the stage of her life that I have been most scared of ever since she was born. She's a lot like me, which freaks me out. Yes I turned out ok, but the way there wasn't over roses.
Love or money?
Love, always. And not because that is what you are supposed to say. It's how I live my life. It's why I don't have the money to travel around Europe all the time and play derby everywhere. ;)
City or mountains?
Ocean!
In The Hague I lived a 10 minute bike ride away from the sandy beach to the Northsea. It's the only thing I miss from Holland. A sandy beach with salty waves and tides. No matter the season, there's always something nice to get at the beach.
Future goals?
I want to become a doctor in philosophy, with the direction of physiotherapy. That's my goal. My dream is to then become THE link between movement/sport science and roller derby. Most sports have a scientific base behind them where you can find information on how to improve even more and how to prevent injuries. Whilst some (!) in roller derby have that knowledge, that knowledge is based on the science which is directed at OTHER sports. I want to create that knowledge based on science about roller derby.
And now it's time to be lame: I really like these questions, so I'm not gonna create any new ones. I will also not go out and actively tag people. I think that about 7 people might be reading this blogg, so if you've read it, consider yourself tagged. Unless You're Swede, because I won't tag back. ;)
Thanks for tagging me Swede, as I said, these were great questions to answer! :)
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