SWSRS DERBY DIARY OF A TGSS TRIP - 2012

SWSR ARE BACK !! Back in NSW AND HOME !! WE CANT WAIT TO BRING YOU ALL OUR UPDATES FROM OUR ROLLER DERBY DIARY OF A TGSS TRIP - 2012 We are happy to be home, thanks to everyone who wished us well, and congratulated us on our bouts and welcomed our safe return, as promised here is ANOTHER diary of a derby trip this one didn’t go bad though - DIARY OF A TGSS DERBY TRIP , We had a fantastic time in Adelaide and love TGSS, here you can read some of our adventures

Day 1 – Friday Arrival: SWSR were sooo excited to finally land in Adelaide, we hired ourselves two vehicles, a 7 and 8 seater, and set off on our short drive to get ourselves unpacked. not knowing where we were going the first to arrive off the pane drove to the villas together, ready to getting settled in for a few hours before the rest of the Rockettes landed, with most of the girls arriving later in the day, we had enough room for all of our luggage, and there was allot, to have to only make one trip from the airport straight to our villas. We found the beautiful spot not far from the airport, but had to wait for keys to arrive. The Rockettes which had landed and were waiting decided to look at the sounds and found themselves at the beautiful local jetty. The remaining rockettes left behind finally secured the keys, got into the villas, discovered the area, took in our breath taking views and prepared to go shopping for groceries before everyone arrived. We spent the rest of the evening snacking on pasties, sitting on our balcony watching the view, drinking some tasty drinks, cooking a huge bbq and talking until bed called us for tomorrows adventure. In the midst of all this we also checked out the tracked and registered our skaters for the bouting days ahead.... tomorrow is the first day of TGSS and our SWSR Merch stall !!

Day 2 – Saturday TGSS Begins We thought we would make the most of our trip to Adelaide and bring us much merch as we possibly could, in hopes that we would be able to make some more mullah to fund our next big adventure. Little did we realize that the amount of merch we had was more than the table TGSS provided us allowed. Luckily for us the table which was provided for the league next to us turned up very late with little merch, which help us out by enabling us to spread our gods out more, for all of our derby loving customers to see !! With the SWS Rockette All Scars Bouting on Sunday and Monday, it gave everyone in our league the opportunity to watch other league bouts, which were all fantastic, our very our Verruca Bazooka skated hard and fast against USA's very own Quadzilla in the challenge bout under team "Angry Birds", with all skaters and bouts being even better than we could have anticipated, with some very close games until the end, we were sure looking forward to what was in store for us tomorrow; knowing we were leaving after our bouts left us little time to explore Adelaide so on our skating day off we spied the Lego display in another hall at the TGSS and checked it out, there was amazing sculptures, all created out of lego which must have taken hours to build, it was $15 well spent. Some of the girls also made there way across town to the city centre to check out Rundle Street Mall and the city of churches, and what a gorgeous quiet city it is, With a great first day behind us we headed back to our villas to get a good nights sleep before bouting it our with East Vic at 4pm the following afternoon.

Day 3 – Sunday – Bout Day: With alarms set and our uniform, and gear ready to go, we all go up early for breakfast and headed to the convention centre to get ready for our shifts at our merch stall and our bout in the afternoon As we drive to the convention centre with skates in toe, some of the Rockettes are already complaining of not feeling so well, We had heard of a previous trip last year with a group of leagues getting sick "Radelaide water" they called it, and the effects seemed to be taking its toll on some of our girls. with stomach aches and running noses, the Rockettes were not going to let a little bit of sickness get in our way, and skated with everything we had. Regardless of our Radelaide Belly’s, and the freezing cold track, (no heaters were on that day in hall 1)we skated on brave and hard, giving it our blood sweat and bruises. East Vic was an amazing league, which we had a fantastic time skating against, with SWSR dressed in hot pink ad East Vic in dark purple, the final score was The SWSR All Scars and crew left the bout exhausted but happy, we were not defeated, we were exhilarated. We had learnt so much, that that very night our benchie, captains, crew and skaters all came together for a Rockette All Scar meeting in villa 1, surrounded by boxes of pizza and vegetables loving cooked by Bazooka. After a huge day at the convention centre dinner and our meeting, it was time to dream of amazing bout to following in the morning this one was going to be earlier, so alarm clocks on !! SWSR girls and guy sleep and sound off to bed to do it all again.

Day 4 – Monday – Bout Day With alarm Bells are ringing, the shower dripping, and SWSR ARE ABOUT TO HEAD OFF TO ANOTHER FUN FILLED BOUTING DAY, THIS TIME TAKING ON GOLD CITY WA AT 10.00, ON TRACK 4 Arriving at the convention centre in the morning dressed in our Blue shirts, ready to take on the Gold City ladies, we were relieved when we arrived and the heaters had been turned on, this meant we would in fact be able to feel our feet whilst skating, while was difficult the day before, toes were tingling due to no heating and the intense cold in the concrete shell of the convention centre. With the bout about to start and the rockettes still not feeling the best we decided to go in there and skate for our fans, to play roller derby and have fun, and have fun we sure did ! The bout was a fast paced action packed hard hitting one, with Gold City's star jammer swifty unfortunately needing to be taken of by the ambos, only to be wheeled back into the benches in her wheel chair to cheer on and support the remaining of her team mates out on the track, thank fully swifty is ok, and the remainder of the bout was played injury free. After posing for photos with Gold City and for League photos some of the Rockettes crew headed back to the villas for one last afternoon of Radelaide fun, while the rest of the girls stayed on at the convention centre to watch the finals and cheer on all leagues skating that afternoon. The Rockettes who left the convention centre were lucky enough to witness the spectacular display of Dolphins swimming in the oceans across from our villa, while the birds were flying around them and swooping in for fish. What an amazing afternoon in the Adelaide sun, which spurred some of the Rockettes to venture out once again and take in all of the city surrounds, and of course do some last minute shopping at Rundle street Mall. After a long day bouting and sight seeing, all of the Rockettes returned to the villa after the Great Southern Slam Finals, had some dinner, talked about the bout, relaxed in our beach front villa and decided on who and what time we were leaving for the after party. With a lot of the Rockettes still sick from Adelaide Belly, only a handful ventured out into the nights cold to party with the rest of the derby stars, some Rockettes had already flown out, whilst the others stayed night and warm in the villas, packing up for the next days flight home.

Day 5 – Tuesday – Rockettes arrive Home Once again the alarm was set early with a few of us heading off to the airport for flights, with the remainder of the rockettes leaving later in the day. after such a huge weekend behind us, the remainder of the girls were looking forward to heading back home to South West Sydney. Cooking didn’t seem like an option, so we raided the pantry and ate all the left overs before we cleaned the villas for one last sight see, and to fly out. The morning we talked more derby, ate some fine tasting food, walked along the shore line to take in the beautiful views one last time, where the beach couldn’t be calmer and more clean, with the sand squeaking underneath our feet. We decided to do some last minute shopping at the DFO outlet, and then head back to the airport to fly home ! All of the Rockettes arrived safe and sound, and we couldn’t have been happier with the weekend we had, it was derby filled fun, and not and injury in sight. ! Look out TGSS next year, we cant wait to roll into Radelaide again. AND THAT WAS SWSR ROCLLER DERBY LEAGUES DIARY OF A TGSS ROLLER DERBY TRIP 2012, WE GLAD WE COULD SHARE OUR ADVENTURES WITH YOU