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Highest governing body | WFTDA, also see text |
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Nickname(s) | Derby |
First played | 1935, Chicago 2001, Austin, Texas |
Clubs | 1,200+ |
Characteristics | |
Contact | Yes |
Team members | 14 |
Categorization | Indoor, roller sport |
Equipment | Roller skates, helmet, pads, mouthguard |
Venue | Roller rink |
Olympic | Under consideration for 2020 |
Roller derby is a contact sport played by two teams of five members roller skating in the same direction around a track. Game play consists of a series of short matchups ("jams") in which both teams designate a scoring player (the "jammer") who scores points by lapping members of the opposing team. The teams attempt to assist their own jammer while hindering the opposing jammer — in effect, playing both offense and defense simultaneously. Roller derby is played by more than 1,200 amateur leagues on every inhabited continent.[1]
While the sport has its origins in the banked-track roller skating marathons of the 1930s, Leo Seltzer and Damon Runyon are credited with the basic evolution of the sport to its initial competitive form. Professional roller derby quickly became popular; in 1940 more than 5 million spectators watched in about 50 US cities. In the ensuing decades, however, it predominantly became a form of sports entertainment where the theatrical elements overshadowed the athleticism. This gratuitous showmanship largely ended with the sport's contemporary grassroots revival in the first decade of the 21st century. Although some sports entertainment qualities such as player pseudonyms and colorful uniforms were retained, scripted bouts with predetermined winners were abandoned.[2]
Modern roller derby is an international sport dominated by all-female amateur teams, in addition to a growing number of male, co-ed, and junior roller derby teams, and is as a roller sport under consideration for the 2020 Olympics.[3] Most modern leagues share a strong "do it yourself" (DIY) ethic which uniquely combines athleticism and elements from punk, camp[4] and third-wave feminist aesthetics.
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Game play
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Contemporary roller derby has a basic set of rules, with variations reflecting the interests of a governing body's member leagues. The summary below is based on a comprehensive rule set developed by the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA),[5] which is used by the vast majority of leagues. In March 2010, Derby News Network claimed that more than 98% of roller derby competitions were conducted under WFTDA rules.[6] For example, members of the United Kingdom Roller Derby Association are required to play by WFTDA rules,[7] while members of the Canadian Women's Roller Derby Association are encouraged to join the WFTDA.[8]
Basics of play
Roller derby is played by two teams of five members simultaneously skating counterclockwise on a circuit track. Each team designates a scoring player (the "jammer"); the other four members are "blockers." One blocker can be designated as a "pivot"—a blocker allowed to become a jammer in the course of play.[9] The jammer wears a helmet cover bearing two stars; the pivot wears a striped cover; the remaining members' helmets are uncovered.[10]
The bout is played in two periods of 30 minutes.[11] Point scoring occurs during "jams": plays that last up to two minutes.[12] During a jam, points are scored when a jammer in scoring position (scoring position is after the jammer has initially passed through the "pack") laps members of the opposing team.[13] Each team's blockers use body contact, changing positions, and other tactics to assist its jammer to score while hindering the opposing team's jammer. Certain types of blocks and other play are violations; referees call penalties and require violators to spend time in a penalty box.[14]
Jams
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Play begins by blockers lining up on the track's starting line (the "pivot line"). The jammers start from a second starting line 30 feet behind. With a starting whistle, the blockers begin to skate; when either the last blocker in the pack crosses the pivot line or the blockers' actions result in there temporarily not being a pack, a set of two short whistles signals the jammers to start.[15]
The pack is the largest single group of blockers containing members of both teams and arranged such that each is within ten feet of the next. While blockers are required to maintain the pack, they are permitted to skate freely within the area of the track beginning twenty feet behind the pack and ending twenty feet ahead of it, known as the "engagement zone".[15] The first jammer to exit the front of the pack, having legally passed all blockers at least once, earns the status of lead jammer.[16] Once earned, lead jammer status cannot be transferred to other skaters, but certain actions (notably, being sent to the penalty box) can cause it to be lost. Subsequent to her first pass through the pack, each jammer scores a point every time she laps an opposition team member.[13]
The lead jammer can stop the jam at any time by signaling to the referees[17] by placing her hands on her hips. If the jam is not stopped early, it ends after 2 minutes. Teams then have 30 seconds to form up for the next jam.[18] Team members typically rotate between jams from the 14 players on the team's roster.[11] Designations may change between jams: a pivot in one jam might be the jammer in a later jam.[19]
Positions
Position | Helmet Cover | Responsibility | References |
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Jammer | Stars | Scores points by lapping opposing team members | [19] |
Blocker | None | Assist the team's jammer to progress through the pack. Hinder the opposing jammer by preventing her from passing. | [19][20] |
Pivot | Stripes | A blocker who may be designated as a jammer during the course of a jam. Establishes team strategy during play. | [19][20] |
Scoring
The jammer scores by passing opposition team members. Each jammer must first complete a non-scoring pass through the pack, which determines which jammer (if any) is the lead jammer. After this, the jammer scores a point the first time each lap that she passes each opposition team member, including the other team's jammer.[19] For example the jammer for team A may pass 5 blockers during a jam, the jammer for team B passes 3. When the jam ends—either because the time limit is reached, or because the lead jammer has "called the jam" beforehand—the score would be 5 points for team A, 3 for team B.[21]
Blocking
Roller derby skaters attempt to knock opponents out of bounds or impede their movements by blocking.[22] Legal blocks follow certain rules. Contact by hands, elbows, head and feet are prohibited, as is contact above the shoulders or below mid-thigh. Contact may not be from the rear, only from a player's front or sides.[23][24]
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Penalties
Referees determine rule violations. Each type of violation carries major or minor penalties, or no penalty at all.[25] A player receiving a major penalty, or four minor penalties, is removed from play to sit in a penalty box for one minute. If a jam ends beforehand, the player remains in the penalty box during the subsequent jam until the minute penalty is completed. Jammers are released from the penalty box before the full minute has elapsed if the second jammer is sent to the box while the first is still seated. The second jammer's penalty is then only as long as the amount of time the first jammer spent in the box. A player is ejected from the game upon the seventh time she is sent to the penalty box.[23]
Equipment
Players skate on four-wheeled ("quad") roller skates,[26] and are required to wear protective equipment, including a helmet, wrist guards, elbow pads, knee pads, and mouth guards.[26][27]
Strategy and Tactics
Roller derby is a game where offense and defense are played simultaneously,[28] a highly volatile aspect which considerably complicates strategy and tactics. Blockers, for example, may create a large hole for their jammer to pass through and score, but this same maneuver might also allow the opposing team's jammer to score.[29][30]
- Ending the Jam: The lead jammer can end the jam at any time, thus she controls the opposing team's ability to score points. Ideally the lead jammer will attempt to score as many points as possible, and end the jam before the opposing team scores any.[31]
- Passing the Star: The jammer for a team may "pass the star" to the pivot — that is, she hands the star helmet cover to the pivot, at which point the pivot becomes the scoring jammer for the team.[32] A jammer might pass the star because of fatigue, injury, penalty trouble, or because the pivot is in a better position to score.[33]
- The Whip: A blocker or pivot grasps her jammer's hand and swings her forward, thus transferring some of her speed and momentum to the jammer.[34]
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- Walling Up: A basic "wall" consists of two blockers working together to take up as much space on the track as possible to make it difficult for the opposing team to maneuver. "Walling up" refers to creating a wall formation at a strategic time, so the opposing team (especially the jammer) has no time to respond. A wall can inhibit, slow down, and ultimately trap the opposing jammer, and may last an entire jam if they can effectively hold the opposing team. Variations on the strategy include setting up blockers to rotate through the wall positions.[35]
- Goating: The pack is defined as the largest group of in bounds Blockers, skating in proximity, containing members from both teams.[26] In the "goatherding" tactic, one team surrounds a blocker of the opposing team (usually the weakest or slowest), and then slows so that that group becomes the pack. The opposing team, skating ahead, are thus put out of play and thus cannot legally block the goatherders' jammer. [36]
- The Diamond: A similar tactic, wherein four blockers form a rough diamond around the opposing jammer to prevent her from getting through the pack.[29]
- Slow Start When a team's jammer is in the penalty box at the start of a jam, they may attempt a slow start: the other team's jammer can't enter the jam until the last blocker passes the pivot line. A slow start prevents the entry of the other team's jammer.[37]
- Intentional Minor Penalties: A skater with 4 minor penalties will be sent to the penalty box for a minute. It is easy for a jammer with three minor penalties to incur a fourth penalty, thus taking her out of play and leaving her team unable to score. Some teams will therefore send a potential jammer with 3 minor penalties into the game as a blocker, with the intent that player intentionally incurs a fourth minor penalty in a less critical blocking role — for example by intentionally entering the starting line-up behind the jammer line instead of the pivot line. [38]
- Other Strategies: A newly developed "Western Style" strategy has been developed in which a blocker who bumps the opposing jammer off the track skates backwards, forcing the jammer to re-enter further behind the pack.[39]
History
Professional endurance races
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The growing popularity of roller skating in the United States led to the formation of organized multi-day endurance races for cash prizes, as early as the mid-1880s.[40][41][42] Speed and endurance races continued to be held on both flat and banked tracks in the century's first three decades[43] and spectators enjoyed the spills and falls of the skaters.[44][45] The term derby was used to refer to such races by 1922.[46][note 1]
Evolution to contact sport
The endurance races began to transform into the contemporary form of the sport in the mid-1930s, when promoter Leo Seltzer[note 2][note 3] created the Transcontinental Roller Derby, a month-long simulation of a road race between two-person teams of professional skaters.[49] The spectacle became a popular touring exhibition.[50][51] In the late 1930s, sportswriter Damon Runyon persuaded Seltzer to change the Roller Derby rules to increase skater contact.[49] By 1939, after experimenting with different team and scoring arrangements, Seltzer's created a touring company of four pairs of teams (always billed as the local "home" team versus either New York or Chicago),[52] with two five-person teams on the track at once, scoring points when its members lapped opponents.[53]
Television
In 1948, Roller Derby debuted on New York television—broadcasting well before television viewership was widespread.[54] The broadcasts increased spectator turnout for live matches.[55] For the 1949–1950 season, Seltzer formed the National Roller Derby League (NRDL).[56][57] The NRDL consisted of six teams.[56] NRDL season playoffs sold out Madison Square Garden for a week.[57] During the late 1950s and 1960s, the sport was broadcast on several networks, but attendance declined. Jerry Seltzer (Leo's son), the RollerJam "commissioner", hoped to use television to expand the live spectator base. He adapted the sport for television by developing scripted story lines, and rules designed to improve television appeal; derby's popularity declined in spite of this.[58]
Amateur revival
Roller derby began its modern revival in the early 2000s as an all-female, woman-organized amateur sport. The revival initially began in Austin, Texas,[59] and by August 2006 there were over 135 similar leagues.[60] Leagues outside the U.S. also began forming in 2006, and international competition soon followed. By September 2011, there were more than 1,000 amateur leagues on every inhabited continent,[1] in countries such as Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, France,[61] Brazil, New Zealand, Germany, Belgium, Finland, Sweden,[62] Denmark[63] and Singapore[64][65]
Contemporary roller derby
Roller derby's amateur female revival
A large number of contemporary roller derby leagues are amateur, self-organized and all-female [66] and were formed in a DIY spirit by relatively new roller derby enthusiasts.[67] In many leagues a punk[68][69] aesthetic and/or third-wave feminist[70] ethic is prominent.[71] Members of fledgling leagues often practice and strategize together, regardless of team affiliation, between bouts.[72] Most compete on flat tracks, though several leagues skate on banked tracks, with more in the planning stages.[73][74]
Each league typically features local teams in public bouts which are popular with a diverse fan base;[75] larger venues hosting audiences ranging from 4,000 to 7,000 are no longer unusual.[76] Many leagues took advantage of the release of the roller derby movie Whip It to increase awareness of the sport.[77]
As the sport has matured, successful local leagues have formed "travel teams" composed of the league's best players to compete with travel teams from other cities and regions. Furthermore, corporate advertising has used roller derby themes in television commercials for insurance,[78] a breakfast cereal,[79] and an over-the-counter analgesic.[80] At the 123rd International Olympic Committee session in South Africa in February 2012, it was announced that roller derby was one of the eight sports under consideration for inclusion in the 2020 Olympic Games.[81]
Aesthetics
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Most players in these leagues skate under pseudonyms, also called "derby names" or "skater names," many of which are creative examples of word play with satirical, mock-violent or sexual puns, alliteration, and allusions to pop culture, some of which are the subject of some controversy.[82]
Name | Allusion |
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Clitty Clitty Bang Bang | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
Vulva Display of Power | Vulgar display of power |
Michelle O'BamYa | Michelle Obama |
Mazel Tov Cocktail | Mazel tov, Molotov cocktail |
Sandra Day O'Clobber | Sandra Day O'Connor |
Slaybia Majora | Labia majora |
Princess Lay-Ya Flat | Princess Leia |
Anna Mosity | Animosity |
New players are often encouraged to check their name against an international roster to ensure novelty and uniqueness of the alias before officially using it.[84] Some players claim their names represent alter egos which they adopt while skating.[85] Referees may also choose to use derby names as well.[86][87] The phenomenon of roller derby aliases has attracted legal and sociological analysis within the ambit of intellectual property and trademark law as an indigenous activity.[88]
The names of the bouts, tournaments, or double-headers themselves are typically just as sardonic and convoluted — for example, Nightmare on Hull Street (Nightmare on Elm St.), Night of the Rolling Dead (Night of the Living Dead), Are You There Blocker? It's Me, Jammer (Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret), Knocktoberfest (Octoberfest), Spanksgiving (Thanksgiving), Seasons Beatings (Seasons Greetings), Grandma Got Run Over By a Rollergirl (Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer), Skate & Destroy Her (Search and destroy), Mama Said Knock You Down (Mama Said Knock You Out), Cinco de May-hem (Cinco de Mayo), and War of the Wheels (War of the Worlds).[89]
Although some teams opt for a uniform livery, the camp can extend to players' garb as well. Costumes (sometimes called "boutfits"[90]) are often inspired by or comparable with rockabilly or burlesque fashions,[91] and tattoos and tutus are commonly in evidence, as are fishnet stockings.[92][93] In addition to the on-track competition, some leagues emphasize entertainment with showy on-track behavior, half-time shows, and "penalty games" — unofficial competitive stunts between players such as arm wrestling, wheelchair races and the like.[94] The extent to which such non-athletic stylizations are embraced varies from league to league, and continues to be a source of some contention.[95][96]
Safety concerns
As roller derby is a contact sport, the risk of injury is non-trivial.[97] Injuries range from common bruises and sprains to broken bones and concussions[98][99] and beyond.[100][101] As is the case with many sporting events and other large public gatherings, many modern roller derby games are required to be played with EMTs on hand[102] Some leagues prominently display their injuries,[103][104] and safety and injuries are a perennial topic on skating blogs and other forums.[105][106][107]
Expansion
Although the early 2000s revival of roller derby was initially all-female, some leagues later introduced all-male teams and co-ed games. Furthermore, as of February 2010 there were over 40 junior roller derby programs across four countries in various stages of development. Despite being viewed by some as risqué[108] adult-oriented entertainment,[95] the positive empowering aspects of the sport are a draw for some youth.[85]
Governance and organization
The largest governing body for the sport is the Women's Flat Track Derby Association, with 124 member leagues.[109] Other associations support either coed or men-only derby.[110][111][112] Outside of the United States many roller derby leagues enjoy support from their national skate federations such as the Skate Australia,[113] the British Roller Sports Federation[114] and Roller Sports Canada.[115] Although affiliation with a national organization has been declined by American leagues who prefer governance on a grass roots level,[116][117] the WFTDA and USARS maintain a reciprocity agreement for insurance purposes.[118] Canada's national roller derby league works with the American federation.[119]
Tournaments
Since 2006, the WFTDA has sponsored an annual championship. In 2008 this first took the modern form of the "Big 5": four regional playoffs, and a final championship tournament.[120] The association also officially recognizes eligible tournaments hosted by member leagues.[121] The Roller Derby World Cup, an international competition, took place in 2011.[122]
See also
Notes
- ^ “Roland Cloni of Akron, world’s champion roller skater, who yesterday tried out the track in the Broadway armory, where the national roller skating derby will be held this week, asserted new world’s records can be established for flat tracks. The derby will open tomorrow and run until Saturday.”[46]
- ^ Sources disagree on whether it was Leo alone or with his brother, the skate maker Oscar Seltzer.[47][48]
- ^ "Roller derby has entertained the masses in one form or another since the 1930s, when brothers Leo and Oscar Seltzer conceptualized the idea of a skating contest on a Chicago restaurant tablecloth."[47]
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External links
- Roller derby at the Open Directory Project
- Flat Track Stats – Statistical aggregation of WFTDA sanctioned roller derby
- International Rollergirls' Master Roster – International derby name and team registry
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