She's skating straight at me and at the very last moment before she hammers full force into my sternum she turns her hips and her wheels make a great breaking screech and she's standing there blinking smiling like she's waiting for a bus. This is the hockey-stop I've been working on for two years. It's taking so long because I had excuses. My excuses were; I had an ACL surgery, a divorce, a move three states away, and a new derby league. Now I am out of excuse. I do them at the end of practice and when we're doing foot worky things but it's slow going. I hesitate. I question. I over-analize. I forget to work on them. I feel like I kinda have it, sometimes I make that great scritching noise with my wheels but I don't yet have the nerve to try it going full blast with someone standing in the way yet. I will though. Then I will hockey stop all over town, screeching up and sliding in sideways like the Dukes of Hazard announcing "I could have plowed into you with everything I have, but choose not to."
5 comments:
I could watch hockey stops all day. Amazing.
me too
i'm just in admiration that you just get out there and play hockey - i think i would break a hip. LOL
okay reread and haven't been on your blog in awhile - you are on a roller derby team - WHAT!! that is awesome, but the statement above still applies for me LOL broken hip would happen.
I'm overthinking my hockey stops, too! And every time I think Iv'e got it, I fall down.
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