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disasteroid-tnfrd: cobrakaiderbycoach: So many skaters automatically assume that A) they have to stand up when the penalty box manager tells them to and/or B) it is always best to get out of the box as soon as possible. Depending on how the jam is going, it may benefit your team to wait. If there is someone in the queue, the pack is on the far side of the track, and the officials are johnny-on-the-spot about sending queue’d players off the track, it may be better to wait until the pack is closer to you before standing. Or wait until the jammers have cleared the pack to make the switch. Penalty box managers hate it when you don’t respect their authoritah, but it isn’t a penalty to sit in the box longer than mandated. I was always under the impression that if they tell you to stand, and you dont, they stop the timer at 10 seconds until you stand. And if you dont, they can call a ref and give you an insubordination major. This is not the case: 7.2.3.1 - When there are 10 seconds remaining on the penalty clock of a penalized skater, that skater will be instructed by the penalty timer to stand. The skater must stand upright. 7.2.3.1.1 - If a skater does not stand when instructed, the penalty timer will stop the penalty clock until the skater stands.

disasteroid-tnfrd:

cobrakaiderbycoach:

So many skaters automatically assume that A) they have to stand up when the penalty box manager tells them to and/or B) it is always best to get out of the box as soon as possible.

Depending on how the jam is going, it may benefit your team to wait. If there is someone in the queue, the pack is on the far side of the track, and the officials are johnny-on-the-spot about sending queue’d players off the track, it may be better to wait until the pack is closer to you before standing. Or wait until the jammers have cleared the pack to make the switch.

Penalty box managers hate it when you don’t respect their authoritah, but it isn’t a penalty to sit in the box longer than mandated.

I was always under the impression that if they tell you to stand, and you dont, they stop the timer at 10 seconds until you stand. And if you dont, they can call a ref and give you an insubordination major.

This is not the case:

7.2.3.1 - When there are 10 seconds remaining on the penalty clock of a penalized skater, that skater will be instructed by the penalty timer to stand. The skater must stand upright.

7.2.3.1.1 - If a skater does not stand when instructed, the penalty timer will stop the penalty clock until the skater stands.

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meganmeganyeahhh: Good luck to Central City Rollergirls and Crash Test Brummies. CTB are making history today by being in the first mens UKRDA bout! Would have loved to been at this - so many good teams! Shref is reffing at this despite his broken face. Clearly I should take up reffing and get to go to all the tournaments! Oh wait… still that money issue!

meganmeganyeahhh:

Good luck to Central City Rollergirls and Crash Test Brummies. CTB are making history today by being in the first mens UKRDA bout!

Would have loved to been at this - so many good teams! Shref is reffing at this despite his broken face. Clearly I should take up reffing and get to go to all the tournaments! Oh wait… still that money issue!

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I stumbled across this picture on reddit and it made me think of how a bench coach/skater on the track can see something completely different to what refs are seeing. Throw in the fact that shit happens really fast on the track a lot of the time… Take it easy on your zebras people! Zebras, take it easy on the rest of us when we get frustrated too (we may be awesome, but we’re not perfect).

I stumbled across this picture on reddit and it made me think of how a bench coach/skater on the track can see something completely different to what refs are seeing. Throw in the fact that shit happens really fast on the track a lot of the time… Take it easy on your zebras people! Zebras, take it easy on the rest of us when we get frustrated too (we may be awesome, but we’re not perfect).

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Tis the night before try outs

And we want to bout,
The positions are stirring, we’re full of doubt.
The stockings were picked by each skater with care,
With hopes that a position would soon be there’s.

The skaters are nestled all snug in their beds
While visions of new strategies dance in their heads.
And Stabba in her PJ’s and I in the nip,
Have settles our brains to dream we don’t slip!

When out on the track there’ll be such a clatter
I’ll spring with my knees and minor elbows won’t matter.
Away to the sin bin I’ll fly like a flash
Tear open the 4 walls & block with a bash

Can-openers to the breast of new zebra Snow
And then I got bored.

Eeep tryouts tomorrow!!