All Blog Posts Tagged 'benefit' (2)

A missed goal and a worthy cause

My original goal date to be bouting will come and go this weekend without my being on skates. Skate-or-Bust, ROSI’s big weekend breast cancer benefit affair is only 4 days away. I am excited but in a bittersweet way. When I first started skating I made a goal to be ready to skate by the July 11 bout. So now that date is going to come and go without my being ready. I am okay with not meeting this goal. I have come a long way and that is the thing to remember. My skills are just about where they… Continue

Added by Jondi Soper on July 7, 2009 at 3:00pm — 2 Comments

Stuck Up Boobs

One of the wonderful thing about derby is all of the great things teams across the country do for charity organizations. I get out on the internet and read about other derby teams and every single last one of them do all they can for charity. Derby isn’t a cheap sport. There is equipment to buy, like skates that cost anywhere from $100 to $700, pads that cost up to $100 for a full set and then there is the travel expenses for away bouts. But derby girls do it on their own dollars. They don’t ge… Continue

Added by Jondi Soper on June 29, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments