Green is the new black
The biggest roller derby happening in whole Northern Europe just happened, last weekend, 3.-4.9.2011. This included the best 5 teams from Scandinavia, Malmö’s own Crime City Rollers, Stockholm Roller Derby, Copenhagen Rolling Hearbreakers, Kallio Rolling Rainbow, and yours truly, Helsinki Roller Derby. Whole Battle of the Nordic Light event was put together by the SwedeVix...
30 Seconds to Jam
HRD’s First Season has reached it’s half time, and before moving on to our Fall Bouts with our lovely, turtle green travel team, it was time for our own home teams, Saturday Fight Fever and Hurtta Lottas, to meet once again on August 19th. As we all well know, the Hurttas won the first home...
Storm is on the way
Helsinki Roller Derby played their 3rd game of season #1 against Stuttgart Valley Rollergirlz’s (who were, just FYI, the winners of German Championship 2010) on Saturday the 11th of June. Most of the german players were the most talented skaters in SVRG, so you can imagine Pasila sports hall was filled with storm and stress...
Overboard is my boyfriend
Our sponsor, a Finnish skateboard shop Overboard has over topped itself. Not only does Helsinki Roller Derby get very generous discounts, but now Overboard presented us with brand new helmets, totally free of charge. And yes, they came in the lovely HRD color, green. Page Disaster looks like a leprechaun with her red hair and...
Roller Derby + Ink = Helsinki
Helsinki Ink is a tattoo happening, that was held at Kaapelitehdas on 25.-27.3.2011. The exhibition brings together tattoo artists around the world, and is also a venue for many performing artists to show off their special skills, such as sword swallowing, burlesque dancing and yes – roller skating. Helsinki Roller Derby was there for Saturday...
Lahti trip
The night between Saturday and Sunday on the week 12 was painful. I woke up (me, that’s Dynamina) ”in the morning” and a quick check to the direction of the clock notified my that I had overslept my first scrimmage and it was already two o’clock in the afternoon – then I woke up again,...
The Creatures of the Night
For several weeks, a lot people here in Helsinki Roller Derby (HRD) have been tossing around ideas about making ourselves a promotion video. Our next event, MayDay in Hell is approching fast, and we were wondering about how we could catch both the medias and the publics attention. I think it’s safe to say that...
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