After putting many bouts on my calendar and subsequently missing them, I finally got to see some men’s roller derby. The TC Terrors, the all-star team for the local men’s derby league had a double-header with the Supernovas, the all-star team for the North Star Roller Girls at the Terrordome (the St. Paul Armory).
Varying opinions on whether men should be seen in derby skinz aside, men’s derby is a fair bit different than women’s. A bigger spectacle, more brute force, bigger crashes, less finesse. It was fun to watch and especially fun to see right after the women, for direct comparison, but my heart will always belong to women’s derby.
