Rat City Roller Girls came down to Melbourne from Seattle and blew my mind in a bout against VRDL. I now have another official crush to add to my list. Re-animateher now joins Swish Caraboom and Olympia as my most favouritist derby skaters evers. A lot of strategic plays that we’ve never really seen much of in the flesh came out the night. I’m pretty sure everyone went home with idea’s in their heads on how to implement these new plays into their own games. I can’t wait to see how the game changes next year !

At South Sea we had our annual south sea Christmas party at a cute little bar in Frankston (you heard me). Alas I wish I could share more but you know, what happens at the Christmas party stays at the Christmas party. As a small spoiler though : I wore a dress *gasp*.

My last bout of the year, “Seasons Beatings” went down in Ballarat on the 4th. I again got to wear my adorable little siren’s sailor bib and hit the track with South Sea’s finest for an epic battle against the Rat Pack. Unfortunately for us the cuteness factor was not enough on the day.

Before the game had even started I was put in place for the second line up and I proceeded to slide off the edge of the chair and onto my butt in front of everyone. My mum on the other side of the arena seem most entertained. I think it was a sign of things to come for me as on my second jam out I fell over about 5 times. The fifth time I went down into a massive spill straight onto my coccyx. I’m particularly disappointed in myself for this as I am always telling people to fall slightly to their side when falling backwards. I just failed following my own advice in a big and painful way.

Honestly the atmosphere was almost identical to the one when we played Geelong. Communication was low, there was lots of lone wolves, half the team was still recovering from the xmas party (note: last bout of the year before xmas party next year please!) and the penalties were flying thick and fast. I don’t want to detract away from Ballarat’s win in any way though because they played amazingly. The Rat Pack’s jamming was so strong and their defense was well organized and adaptable. I think myself as well as the other Sirens are mostly upset that we didn’t give them a better run for their money on the last bout for 2011.

As a definite highlight, I do think next year’s award for “most spectacular performance” will be going to one of our regular bout MC’s Mr. Guy “Chief-Intent” Cunningham for his half time proposal to long time wench and fellow charmer, Mollycious Intent. There was hardly a dry eye on the sirens bench. As you can imagine bringing a bunch of derby chicks to tears is no easy feat.

Even though we lost and I hurt myself pretty badly, the proposal, the awesome road trip with Titasaurus and Inkabelle and Ballarat’s post bout hospitality totally made it worth the trip. In fact as I sit here now looking at the photos and now being well over the post bout blues, it really wasn’t a bad day at all. If i could do it again I would, sans the butt hurt (literally and figuratively).

I’m already looking forward to the 2012 season. It will be my second year of bouting and I’m intending on making it count. With whispers of another great southern slam in the works I can’t wait to get back to Adelaide, this time with skates on feet.

Last but not least: The results are in for the 12 week challenge. I lost a total of 13.5kgs, and 50.3cm. I’m back to boot camp weight but with added muscle *pelvic thrust*.

The plan now is to have a little break, and by break I don’t mean binge, but bring myself up to a little more sustainable calorie intake for the Christmas period. The 12 week challenge starts again in January so I’ll start my rigid plan for another 12 weeks then and hopefully by the time I go to Japan in June I’ll be exactly where I want to be.

Speaking of Japan, I’m excited about the prospect of maybe being able to train with Yokota Roller Derby’s “Scary Blossoms” or the Yokosuka “Sushi Rollers” (best name ever!). I still have to work out which one will be closest to where we are staying…and whether I can afford the cost of hauling my skates back when I have filled my bag with mountains of super kawaii junk and anime merchandise.

But that’s it from me for another year. It looks and feels like I’ll be off skates for the remainder of the season (2 weeks) nursing my butt back to health while also trying not to put back on the weight I lost. Regular trips to Rollerama will be moved back in to my schedule and I’ll finally be able to give my pads the old fashioned stench decontamination they deserve.

Catch you in January !

<3 blitz

P.S Good luck to all the girls testing at South Sea this week !