Baby Flamingo does a Dance! - Penalty Tracking

For an upcoming game our team needed a Penalty Wrangler and Tracker, and since we didn't have a volunteer I've gone in for some re-training!  The main thing is learning the hand signals and codes (letters) for each of the penalties a referee might give, so that you can recognise them from a distance and write them down.

When running through them all I couldn't help noticing that they form a lovely 90's style dance, so I had a go at putting them all together.  My friend suggested the perfect song!  This took about four takes to get right :P

Back to Skates!

After four weeks of hobbling around everywhere recovering from a broken toe, this week I finally got back on all eight wheels again.

Coming back from any longer stint off the track, there's going to be a little adjustment period, so I was planning to take it easy on my first day back and make sure my foot was properly working again.

But naturally the gods of derby saw fit to throw me in at the deep end...

The risks we take

I've broken my toe.  Fortunately it's just my littlest toe so I can still hobble around quite merrily.  I've never broken anything before so the novelty and sympathy votes I'm getting out of it are still interesting enough to outweigh any annoyance and being stuck off-skates again.

Since I've got this injury, I thought I'd find some use for it and write a post.