Sport and Strategy
DRD’s play in 2009 forced the country’s top teams to both learn it and learn how to counter it within the rule set. In 2010, those teams added it to the known strategies. The sheer skating talent and strategy that it takes is amazing. Packs began to speed up again.
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RMRG can and does play at any speed, within the rules, and to the benefit of the team. It is nothing short of incredible to have a team like Fight Club that is so well trained and in tune with one another that they play at top speeds or a crawl as a cohesive and bruising unit. The wonderful thing about derby is the evolution of strategy and watching an ever more talented set of skaters who can play these amazing bouts.
Thanks for your consideration. —PJ “Dangerous Leigh A’zon” Shields
The NBA has a 24-second clock as a result of teams’ strategies of slowing the game down, and not shooting. Fifty-five years later, the game still thrives with that rule change. Derby doesn’t need to be completely cerebal any more than it needs to be strictly physical. Find that balance. —bdeviller
Content Without Connection
Paul Mooney’s “everybody wanna be a nigga but don’t nobody wanna be a nigga” is still one of the realest things I’ve ever heard. And it gets played out again and again. —Emaan
