Comments on: Oklahoma City Roller Derby

By: Blonde Brawler

Blonde Brawler — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 20:05:52 +0000

I am so thrilled you had a wonderful time. We love all of our fans and cherish the time the share with us to come and support us. Thank you for coming and sharing this. We look forward to seeing you at more of our bouts.

By: Suzy SINsation

Suzy SINsation — Thu, 31 May 2012 17:36:44 +0000

I’m glad you enjoyed the bout overall! I like to receive constructive criticism about the halftime event, and in the future we are looking at way to make the head-shaving period shorter (though most of our home bouts have a 10-20 minute halftime, this particular one was long because it was St. Baldrick’s).

So, have you been back? :)

By: Kitty VonKlobber

Kitty VonKlobber — Thu, 31 May 2012 17:22:50 +0000

Thanks so much for coming to the bout, and lots of thanks for the write up! We are always looking for ways to improve our bouts, and they are a work in progress. The long halftime isn’t typical, just once or twice a year for certain charities. We hope you come back soon! Say hi and we’ll try to get some autographs and derby swag for the littles :)

By: Mya OH Mya

Mya OH Mya — Thu, 31 May 2012 14:22:59 +0000

I’m just now stumbling upon this. We are so happy to hear you had a good time and glad you found it family friendly. Sometimes during the summer we get bouncy houses for the kids outside, we’ve even had an exotic animal petting “zoo” before. We have many moms on the team so we like to keep it where they feel comfortable bringing their family with them. The St. Baldrick’s head shaving half-time is extra long. Us as skaters get antsy and cooled down and do NOT like the looooooong halves so don’t feel bad for complaining about it. Also know that we have already been discussing ways to “fix” this. Unfortunately (but not really) we will have another extended half time at our June bout because our charity is to benefit Breast Cancer and we will have an auction. These are the only two bouts a season with extra long halfs and we are going to do some revamping of these for next season. We learn by trial and error. We are all volunteers who work very hard to keep our sport alive. Keep coming and we’ll keep skating!!!! Thanks for the support!

By: sarah davis

sarah davis — Thu, 31 May 2012 13:48:45 +0000

I am a member if okcrd, and an very plesed you had a great time.
The bout you attended was our annual St. Baldricks bout. The head shaving is not party of every derby bout, and it is always a long process due to the high number of volunteer shavees.

check out okcrd.com or like us on Facebook to find out about future bouts!
Hope to see you at our next bout in June

By: Brandi Garner

Brandi Garner — Thu, 31 May 2012 03:55:23 +0000

I love that you wrote of your experience at our bout! I’m the charity liaison for the Oklahoma City Roller Derby league and involved in the production of our events and am always curious about what people think of our events. Our St. Baldrick’s event was the first I’ve personally organized for that charity and I agree halftime was too long. Normally our halftimes our brief and we are working on ways to incorporate fun activities for our fans. We’ve also set up a craft table for kids to make posters for their favorite skater that the kids seem to enjoy. Thanks for the write-up and for the suggestions! I hope you’ll come see us again this season – and if you do, come say hello at the charity table! PS – if you sign up for our newsletter (via Facebook page), it often has coupons for discount tickets and our next bout on June 22 is a fan favorite, our Bout Against Breast Cancer!

By: Mom

Mom — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:21:43 +0000

I know you’ve already heard how much my mom loved Roller Derby, and she really got into it. I remember her yelling, “Get her, get her!” Quite un-granny like! But we loved watching her watch it. Sure wish she was around to take to one of these. She’d still have a blast.

By: Mike Warma

Mike Warma — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:25:59 +0000

> there was literally nothing else to do other than sit around and watch people get their heads shaved for an hour.

Well. You could have gotten *your* head shaved. Or Mason’s. Or better yet Susan’s. That would have entertained the kids