Adelaide Roller Derby

Derby Girl
Derby Girl

Profiles

Blow up Betty

Interesting Information

Name:
Blow up Betty
Number:
v2.0
Team:
Road Train Rollers
Start Date:
September 2009

Distinguishing Characteristics:

My big mouth!

Special Derby Move:

A Pop and Rock on any apex.

Greatest Derby Moment:

Skating out as the alternate captain in the final of Roll Britannia in my past life as a Blitz Dame.

Biggest Derby Regret:

Not getting a decent crack at Union Jack-U-Up, Helen Fury, Bee Sting or Correctional Felicity before I left the UK.

Favourite Off-Skates Activities:

Live music and lazy days in the sun.

Derby Injuries:

Several concussions, whiplash…my head likes the floor apparently…


Guilty Pleasures:

Bad nineties dance music.

Earliest Roller-skating Memory:


Street hockey with my sister…yep, she got a thumping! 



Non-Derby-Confusion Moment:


Hip-checking my way through the kitchen staff on a Saturday night.



Origin of Derby Name:


A huge part of my life I wasn’t prepared to let go of yet! 



Theme Tune:


Here’s My Fist, Where’s The Fight? – Sahara Hotnights