There are scrimmage assessments tonight.
[crickets chirping]
Don't worry...not for me!! Silly people! I may be crazy, but I'm not that crazy! There are about six Fresh Meaties who will be going through the scrimmage assessment tonight and they'll do great. They've proven that they are strong skaters and they always seem to work really well together when they are in a pack. As for me, well, I think I'll need three or four more weeks...er, I mean, months before I am ready to go through that scrimmage assessment. I'd like to imagine that I could take a beating or two in the assessment, but I have no idea what I'm doing out on the track. I don't know anything about the roles of blockers B1, B2, or B3. I try to listen to the Pivot, but eventually I just do something wrong or fall or lose my place and feel like a grand disappointment. So until I have a better grasp of general pack strategy, I'm just going to sit these scrimmages out.
In other news, once these ladies pass their scrimmage assessments, they'll be able to put in for their derby names (I think). Yay!! That's so exciting. I can't wait to hear the names that they've chosen for themselves. Will we have a Rotten Rita or a Smashing Sally?
[do I hear crickets again?]
Okay, so I know I'm not really all that great at this name picking thing. And that is why, back around the time of tryouts, I tasked my mom, friends, and boyfriend with coming up with a variety of names. They did not disappoint. I probably had about over 100 names to work with. Some were taken, of course, as we discovered when checking the Roller Girl Name Registry, but others were not. The excitement for choosing a name, however, has sort of died down for me. Once I started practicing and realized that this Fresh Meat process was going to take me quite a while, I thought I would let the dust settle a bit and when it came time to pick a name, then I would allow myself to get all excited again.
Don't get me wrong, out of those 100 names, I did cling to about three or four that I thought would be good, but there's always a chance that those names will get chosen by someone else while I'm waiting to pass the scrimmage assessment. Oh well! It will just be back to the drawing board at that point. And if all else fails, I also discovered that when having trouble coming up with names, a great little source for inspiration can be found by perusing lists of old Garbage Pail Kids. See what I mean:
[do I hear crickets again?]
Okay, so I know I'm not really all that great at this name picking thing. And that is why, back around the time of tryouts, I tasked my mom, friends, and boyfriend with coming up with a variety of names. They did not disappoint. I probably had about over 100 names to work with. Some were taken, of course, as we discovered when checking the Roller Girl Name Registry, but others were not. The excitement for choosing a name, however, has sort of died down for me. Once I started practicing and realized that this Fresh Meat process was going to take me quite a while, I thought I would let the dust settle a bit and when it came time to pick a name, then I would allow myself to get all excited again.
Don't get me wrong, out of those 100 names, I did cling to about three or four that I thought would be good, but there's always a chance that those names will get chosen by someone else while I'm waiting to pass the scrimmage assessment. Oh well! It will just be back to the drawing board at that point. And if all else fails, I also discovered that when having trouble coming up with names, a great little source for inspiration can be found by perusing lists of old Garbage Pail Kids. See what I mean:
2 comments:
garbage pail kids? wow, there's a forgotten '80s reference -- does anybody on the team even know about them? good luck.
TAGjr! I would hope people remember them...it wasn't that long ago...oh wait! That was like 20 years ago... We're getting too old! I wish I still had all of mine. Grrrrrr...
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