Coach or No Coach?

Finally I had managed to gather a core group of women together that kept coming back to my bi-weekly practices. Word was spreading and some of the regulars starting brining in friends - as was the case with Tornado Tosha recruiting Val Talon. I kept seeing the same faces on a regular basis and managed to come up with an attendance sheet & contact log. Something that Roxie Moxie really helped me organize. Let me tell ya, having someone, even if it's just one person really click with you and you're both organized, driven, focused individuals - magic truly happens! I only had a few women that I met through derby that I just instantianiously clicked with. Roxie Moxie was the first, Val Talon was the second, Torch was the third and The Jersey Kid a.k.a Nir'Ivanna was the fourth. We got our goals accomplished, whether it was league related, training related, or game related I couldn't have gotten it done without them. It takes a hell of a lot to be skater-owned and operated.

Now that the ladies were getting the basics downs we needed closed practices to mark off a track and begin working on drills within the track space. We managed to arrange closed practices at Roller Sports in Taylors in conjunction with out very first photo shoot. My husband just happened to tag along that night and noticed just how insane it was for me to be a skater and a coach at the same time. I couldn't really stand back and assess the girls progress and see what people needed to work on. I also wasn't able to focus on sharpening my own derby skills. So after that very first close practice he offered to coach us. He knew pretty much everything I did since that was all I would talk about and he had access to all of the drills and training manuals that I had.

Some of the girls didn't like the idea of having a male coach, but majority ruled that we needed someone to carry the title of coach that wasn't a skater. So began the reign of F.B. a.k.a Franken