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Tilted Thunder Roller Derby (TTRD), formerly Tilted Thunder Rail Birds, is a Seattle, Washington based banked track roller derby league. They are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization run by a volunteer force of skaters and league members committed to promoting and raising awareness of roller derby, especially banked track roller derby.
National Roller Derby League (NRDL) – 1995–2004; initially promoted as Roller Derby Inc.; current site promotes the San Francisco Bay Bombers, etc. American Roller Derby League (ARDL) – 1997–2003; Owned by Tim Patten; briefly promoted as American Inline Roller Skating Derby League; Promoted the Bay City Bombers
Junior Roller Derby Association (JRDA) [11] – 118 junior roller derby member leagues as of Dec 2017 [citation needed] Roller Derby Coalition of Leagues (RDCL) – 8 banked track member leagues as of September 2019 [12] USA Roller Sports (USARS) [13] – 57 member leagues (combines all age and gender divisions) [14]
Deadly Rival Roller Derby (DRRD) is Florida's only Banked Track Roller Derby league, the only Banked Track league in the Southeastern United States and the 8th operating in the country as of 2019. When the league was first organized, Deadly Rival was the original roller derby league of Pinellas County, and throughout their history maintained ...
Roller derby is a roller skating contact sport played on an oval track by two teams of five skaters. It is played by approximately 1,250 amateur leagues [note 1] worldwide, though it is most popular in the United States. [2] A 60-minute roller derby game, or bout, is a series of two-minute timed jams.
Lonestar Rollergirls in Austin, Texas, play on a banked track (2011). Cherry Bombs (Green) vs Rhinestone Cowgirls (Red) on August 27, 2011, in Austin, Texas. The Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) is an association of women's flat track roller derby leagues in the United States.
Red Dirt Rebellion Rollergirls was Oklahoma’s only all-female banked track roller derby league. [1] It was founded in 2007 by two women, Emily "Suzi Uzi" Matthews and Donn "Smakety Ann" Cross, with previous flat track experience. Skaters from the league built the banked track featured in the movie Whip It starring Drew Barrymore and Elliot Page.
A Very Simple Game: the Story of Roller Derby. 1971. Deford, Frank. Five Strides on the Banked Track: The Life and Times of the Roller Derby. Little, Brown and Company, 1971. ISBN 0-316-17920-5. Coppage, Keith. Roller Derby to Rollerjam: The Authorized Story of an Unauthorized Sport. Santa Rosa, California: Squarebooks, 1999. ISBN 0-916290-80-8.