NEW LOCATION for 2008!!! Yaarab Shrine Center on PONCE in Midtown (btween Monroe and Piedmont)Dirty South Derby!!!! Drink Beer, Worship Skatin!
OMG, OMG, we were featured on CNN Headline News in a "Roller Derby Resurgence" piece that ran more than TWELVE times on November 11 and 12!
Big thanks to our WFTDA sister leagues Rocky Mountain Rollergirls (DENVER) and Windy City Rollers (CHICAGO) who were shown rolling with Atlanta's All-Star Team.
VIEW ONLINE: If you missed the broadcast, go to CNN.com for video: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/sports/2007/11/10/smit h.roller.derby.resurgence.cnn
The producer said that feedback from derby girls around the nation would really make a difference in helping get it possibly re-broadcast on CNN during primetime, or possibly gathering more footage to do a longer profile about roller derby...so let them know if you liked this sports coverage: [email protected]
MINI-DOCUMENTARY BY SCOTT CROCKER
Click here for Online Video HIGHLIGHTS from 2005 season's championship bout
Watch this episode of the WPBA show "This Is Atlanta" public service/community interest story, go to this page, then click the icon to watch the video: Click here for WPBA link
Questions about rules and gameplay? Just check this out: HOW STUFF WORKS.com has a clickable diagram of gameplay with jammers and blockers.
The Atlanta Rollergirls league was founded in late 2004, and is more than sixty women strong, ranging in age from 21 to 40-something. We are a flat-track, all-female, quad-skate league, part of the D.I.Y. roller derby revival and revolution that began when our sisters in Texas began competing in 2001. Across the United States, many all-girl (skater-owned and skater-operated) leagues have formed in the past four years, taking the country and the media by storm, with recent articles in Newsweek, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and an interview on CNN's Now with Paula Zahn.
This new generation of aggressive female athletes are reviving the hard-hitting, bad-girl sport of eight-wheel roller derby that was popular from the 1930's through the 1970s. Today's leagues are updating the sport with an edgier attitude and the addition of a few modern touches like tattooed team members, sassy uniforms and cheeky penalties for a crowd-pleasing fierce competition that's rougher and tougher than ever! We strive for a crowd-pleasing mix of sport and spectacle, but our competitions are not staged, the outcomes are not fixed, and our falls and spills are the real deal. Come to one of our upcoming bouts to check out the action---See blog for schedule!
We love roller derby and we live for it. seriously. We LIVE for it. The Atlanta Rollergirls are going to kick your ass, knock your socks off, and then charm the pants offa ya. You won't know what hit you.
ARG HOMEPAGE: Our homepage has all the details, Rollergirl of The Week, and links to purchase tickets to our bouts!
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We have four full teams, and each team has its own MYSPACE page.
Add one or all!:
Apocalypstix: Click here if your favorite team is the Apocalypstix
Denim Demons: Click here if you love the Denim Demons
Sake Tuyas: Click here if you heart the Sake Tuyas!
Toxic Shocks: Click here to catch the infection!
