Featured Skater – Evelyn Tent!

Our January Featured Skater is the incredible Evelyn Tent #999

Evelyn is a skater on our All Star Reserves, and has been for some time now. She’s a force to be reckoned with on track, and a lovely person off track. She’s also a committee spokesperson for ARRG and puts a lot of work in. We think she is great! If you want to judge for yourself, come and watch her skate at the end of the month when the All Star Reserves take on Oxford at Meadowbank on the 31st January – tickets here

 

Home Team Affiliation: Leithal Weapons

Joined ARRG in: Oct 2012

Favourite position to play: at scrims – jammer is so much fun. In a bout though – blocker as designated O.

Number of games on the All Star Reserves: 6 amazing games

Your Derby story: Unfortunately I was a slow starter into ARRG. I saw a couple of notices calling people to sign up but was always able to talk myself out why I couldn’t make it at the moment. I still kick myself over the lost time I could have been playing.

Then in 2011 I managed to drag my boyfriend to watch one of the Fringe bouts which meant our Saturday night date was spent shopping online for derby gear. And so its continued – derby is the ONLY thing that will drag me out of bed on a Sunday morning!

This year I’ve been working hard at it both on and off skated and its been great. I’ve moved up to advanced, made the Reserves and got picked as a WFTDA 20 Reserve.

Worst Derby injury: 2013 Christmas scrim – landed weirdly on my knee and as I rolled I felt my knee cap move well out of place before popping back into place as I finished rolling. Hows that for stretchy tendons?

Best Derby advice: Weight training is essential and you have to make time for it. It reduces the risk of injury and without it you’ll never have the power to get through a pack.

Mentally, don’t compare yourself to your team mates – you’re competing with yourself.

What you do for the league aside from skating: I’m the Secretarial spokesperson (and soon to be trained up First Aider).

Embarrassing derby story: Most embarrassing derby story was playing against Hamburg. Came on as jammer and managed to imagine the start whistle – managed to get almost to the apex before it was called. Fortunately the other jammer decided to follow and confuse the referees enough that no penalties were awarded.

Derby Hero: The Australian wall that held Scald Eagle back for 1:44 during the World Cup!

What do you do outside of derby: I’m a big fan of boardgames – the more complicated the better. That and getting embroiled in debates that last till the sun comes up.