Have a look at that column on the right. I've explained shortly my sports history from beginning. One of the most important projects for me in sports has been training for a half marathon in spring 2012. I started training already in 2011 and had a good basis for making trough it. Suddenly only a month before the Helsinki City Run I find myself skating around an oval track smiling and falling, feeling wild and excited. Practice after practice I was getting more into roller derby and my training for the marathon kept going but not as active as it had been. All this led to trembling (but running) trough the 21 kilometers and attending a roller derby boot camp the very next day with some sore pair of legs. Five hours of painful skating has never felt that good! I love it with all the pain it has as well as all the ease it sometimes can have.
Where does all this want and motivation come from? A simple logo will do.
I attended a boot camp on Saturday led by the best roller derby team in the universe (as the commentator pointed out). The amount of awesomeness was unbearable with a poker face. That is probably why our triplet attending to the on skates beginner boot camp were having hours of quite scary bad joking. Which was great of course. The USA team was full of dedicated women with figures of hard steel. The main admiration I had was for their thighs, oh their muscular sculptured thighs! Seeing them play against Team Sweden and Team Finland made me feel so small in knowledge as well as in skills. If I could have even a spoonful of their skills, power and attitude in me, it would grow to be a start for being really good in this crazy sports! In my nightly moods on the way home I declared to myself and to the people in the car that I'll start a 4 months program in having even some of that awesomeness in me.
So fixing my workouts from long distance running and from endurance point of view is going to start now. First of all I'm wondering what do I need to have in my training program? What are the key points to work on? Having a good stamina gives me a huge advantage but the nature of this sport is so very different from any endurance sports: skipping, leaping, turning fast, making everything in haste but still in perfect control. While scrimmaging I always notice to be very out of breathe although I have the stamina for long workouts. The key point to work on my body and mind is explosive power. I need to be able to make everything really fast and controlled. What's more important is I need to have the energy and muscular strength to do it again and again and again.
I'm listing my key points here and print the list so I can have it in my calendar as well. I will go deeper into every key point in new post.
1. Agility & explosive power
2. Skating stance (boring but VITAL!)
3. Courage (what, I don't want to jump and turn around at the same time while skating fast because I'm scared to death I will fall?? I will fall anyway! So I need to get rid of this chicken attitude)
4. Endurance
In the program I will divide the workouts to On Skate and Off Skate workouts. Both are as much needed. As one of the coaches at the boot camp said: if you don't have the muscles off skates, how would you suddenly have them on skates? And it is easier to work out your muscles off skates. Easier and more effective. Once you'll achieve good muscular balance and agility off skates you can finally feel easier doing it all on skates. What a simple but important notice! If only I could remember all the tips they gave us, those goddesses full of information in an understandable form. I am most certainly one of those persons to be allergic to all fancy wording and non-practical stuff. Please show me everything by hand, kick my ass down and my back up, whisper in my ear when I look down instead of keeping an eye in the game and make me understand hip checking by making me laugh how stupid I look like when I try to do it from a meter away from another player. Even the simplest can learn and this is going to be an example how!
What more do I need to be a competent player in Roller Derby? In this blog I will mainly concentrate on working with my body and maybe having some reflections about strategies and tactics as well. I know my weak points when I get tired and the huge holes I have in knowledge of this game. I will work on them too, but a bit silently for a starters. After I learn to comprehend better I can also reflect them more usefully.
So let the battle begin!
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