New haircut today! Feels great to get all that extra shag \u00c2\u00a0cut off. All that hair was a damn freeloader, I say. Serves it right!<\/p>\n
Earlier today I had derby practice. No, not the kind with horses. This is roller derby, Women’s Flat Track Derby to be precise. Now, I know what you’re saying. “Tyler, you’re not a woman and what’s a flat track?” And, you know, you’re right. That’s why I’m a referee and not one of the players. Also, a flat track means they play on a level surface, whereas some roller derby leagues have a banked track (like in Nascar).<\/p>\n
If you haven’t before, take a moment to find out what<\/a> it is.<\/p>\n Some of you may (think) you remember roller derby from back in the 80s. That strange, costumed, WWF-style fake combat on roller skates, right? WRONG! Harken back to the early 20th century, when men were men and women beat the crap out of each other on a banked roller derby track. It’s all very real, nothing is staged and there are a few more safety rules today than back then.<\/p>\n Come support the Mission City Brawlin’ Betties<\/a> in their bout against the Bakersfield Diamond Divas<\/a> on October 2nd in Santa Barbara!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Women’s roller derby is back and it’s full contact, very real and rockin’ hard!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,128],"tags":[132,137,131,133,130,140,139,135,138,129,279,134,136],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-roller-derby","tag-betties","tag-bout","tag-brawlin","tag-brawlin-betties","tag-derby","tag-fight","tag-full-contact","tag-haircut","tag-mission-city","tag-roller","tag-roller-derby","tag-skate","tag-track"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chaotickingdoms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}