I’m stronger than I’ve ever been and more at home in my body. I definitely own the space I’m in
I dropped out of Birmingham University in the Easter of my first year. The course wasn’t what I expected, and I was so unhappy. I moved back in with my mum at our council house in Lincoln and got a part-time job as a cleaner. I was getting more and more down. My mum had started going to this roller derby thing and dragged me along. I hadn’t roller-skated since I was eight, but I loved it.
Roller derby is a team sport, played on an oval track about the length of four badminton courts. On the track at any one time are four blockers and one jammer from each team. It’s a point-scoring sport, and the jammer is effectively the ball. The basic premise is to get your jammer out of the pack of blockers and around the track, while preventing the opposition jammer from doing the same.
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