Last minute oversell tickets are available for LOCO Roller Derby in LONDON, ON first live bout! WIPE OUT ticket sales benefit the Sexual Assault Center London, so come enjoy some women on skates playing roller derby for a good cause!

We have added 25 Self Defense Class Tickets to TicketScene, along with a coveted 20 additional seats at the bout for 20 combination tickets for the self defense class plus the bout. If you are in London, and would like to purchase any of these tickets, please contact sacl@sacl.ca  or talk to your favorite LOCO Roller Derby skater or email our President, Nia Capps at info@locorollerderby.com .

Get your tickets now, they are only available until Saturday night! http://www.ticketscene.ca/events/3753

Last minute preparations are under way and you can look forward to:

• A welcoming atmosphere and a private room for discussion about self defense awareness
• A roller derby bout keepsake program hand out
• SACL Information and Merchandise to commemorate the event
• Noisemakers and Flags – Pick your team The Pretty Terrors or The Black Heartz and CHEER!
• LOCO Merchandise – to show your LOCO love and support
• Concessions: From Pop and Water to Chips and Candy, if your stomach growls, we got you covered!
• 2 intermissions of roller skating demonstrations and KIDS PLAY TIME when they get to take over the track and play
• Sarah Smith of The Joys singing an acapella Canadian National Anthem.
• A Roller Derby 101 lesson to get you started
• 60 minutes of roller derby, where you may be surprised at how competitive low-contact can get!
• An awesome after party, even though it’s Sunday @ The Morrissey House

Come one, come all, see some live roller derby!

LOCO Roller Derby hopes our friends from Kitchener’s WFTDA Tri-City Rollergirls, London’s FCDG Thames Fatales and all our Eastern Canadian teams representing at the Beast of the East 2011 Tournament in Montreal, QC this weekend play well, win big, and have a great time doing it! GOOD LUCK to all!

LOCO is growing across Ontario. 3 months after opening Kitchener LOCO Roller Derby, Startford Roller Derby has applied to and been accepted by the LOCO Roller Derby league members as the newest LOCO Roller Derby chapter. Now, you can skate in Kitchener, in Stratford, or in the flagship London location, and all with the same friendly, welcoming, and encouraging atmospheres, recreational low cost, low commitment and low contact roller derby training and playing, and with the same focus on the fun and friendship of roller derby.

If you are in Stratford and you want to learn to roller skate, play roller derby, and meet some great new people, come on out to the open house event this Friday, March 25, 2011. We’ll be at the Stratford YMCA from 7-9 pm. A few loaner skates are available (first come, first serve) and it will be a fun night of skating, a chance to meet the Stratford LOCO Roller Derby skaters and to find out all about how to join and what to expect. $5 a night is all it will take to get started, so come on out and skate!  Skaters are required to have helmet, mouth guard, wrist guards, elbow and knee pads, and be female and 18+.  We’ll be there every Friday following (except holidays) and welcome new skaters every week!

Welcome aboard, Stratford LOCO Roller Derby!

London’s LOCO Roller Derby is adding practices! We’ve grown so much, we needed a little more space and time. Starting Monday March 14, 2011, LOCO London is adding Monday nights to it’s practice schedule, but we’re starting slow with every other week on the plan, and more to come. Practice Monday March 14, 2011 is from 8:30-10 PM at the YMCA Centre Branch at 382 Waterloo St., London, ON.  Check the Schedule page for London for up to date information.

And thanks to the KW Granite Club, Kitchener LOCO Roller Derby is scheduled and open all summer! Practices move this month to Mondays, and to the home of our friends, the WFTDA Tri-City Rollergirls at New Hamburg Arena, in New Hamburg, ON and April 11 LOCO Londo visits for a special scrimmage night. Then, starting April 20, 2011 through to September, LOCO Kitchener settles into a nice Wednesday night time slot 6-8PM at the KW Granite Club in Waterloo, ON. Thanks for the support, TCRG, KW Granite and KW! Track the Kitchener schedule on the schedule page.

We’d also like to give a shout out to the Sexual Assault Center London for choosing LOCO Roller Derby to help them with their fund raising during Sexual Assault Awareness Month this May. Announcements coming soon about the events that will let you and LOCO help put an end to sexual violence.

LOCO Roller Derby is proud to announce that Kitchener LOCO Roller Derby has procured practice space through April 4, 2011, and we have updated the schedule for Kitchener to reflect the changes in days, times, and locations.

Through March 17, 2011, practices will remain at Queensmount Arena in Kitchener on Thursday nights from 6-8 PM. Effective March 21 – April 4 practices will be held on Mondays from 7-9 PM at the New Hamburg Arena (home of our friends, the Kitchener-Waterloo area WFTDA Tri-City Rollergirls).

We are still looking for space for April 2011 and onward, though, so please let us know if you can help.

Visit our downloads page to download printable color or black and white copied of this flyer for yourself and a friend. Valid only in London, ON, and only for first-time skaters. Flyers for Kitchener are also available on our download page, for those that want to promote LOCO Roller Derby Kitchener. Thanks to our sponsors, partners, and friends for all the encouragement and support.

At LOCO Roller Derby, we believe that all women can enjoy being strong, fit, powerful, and that all women can play roller derby. Our team names have been the Red Shirts vs the Black Hats for our open scrimmages, but we are happy to announce that we have our 2011 team names chosen!

Join us in our love of powerful women and welcome:

The Ellen Degenerates (red)

&

The Dope Rahs (black)

to the LOCO Roller Derby track this Friday night. Please contact info@locorollerderby.com if you have questions about the scrimmage nights!

Credits to one of our newest skaters in the LOCO London chapter, (derby name pending) Suzanne, we bring you a collage piece to highlight our 2010-2011 growth, improvements and fun had by all. More videos to come, but this is our first teaser. Enjoy!

See below for Scrimmage Night info for Jan 28, 2011. Don’t forget practices in Kitchener are every Thursday including Jan 27, and start at 6 PM!

The date is Jan 28 2011, we apologize for the image error.

Scrimmage night: Jan 28 2011 in London

Schedule (as usual) 6:45 arrive and sign in. Gear up.
7:00 PM: Floor sweep, warmup, stretch
7:15 PM: Track setup and Roster Announcement
7:20 PM: First jam
3 periods of  20 minutes are planned. Time will be announced with rosters as it may depend on number of players and start time. It is all WFTDA roller derby, but if you check a girl to the floor in low contact derby, we will send you to the penalty box!

2011 will bring new team names, but for now, we’re still playing open-roster Red Shirts vs Black Hats and the Black Hats need to win this one, at 0-2 for LOCO in London.

Requirements to scrimmage:  Skaters must pass skill testing (Jan 21 2011), attend a ref clinic (Jan 21 2011), have gear check approved (Jan 28 2011), and have insurance valid for 2011 (CWRDA or RSC accepted) by Jan 28 2011. We will also ask if you have read the rules so ask for them if you haven’t!  For this scrimmage, we will have 14 day waivers for those that have applied for insurance but are missing cards. Helmet, mouth guard, knee and elbow pads, and wrist guards are required. Women over 18 can play, men 18+ can serve as referees. Referees and NSO officials can be on or off skate at LOCO, and we will train you.  Referees and Volunteers will not have to pay on scrimmage nights.

Spectators: Our practice space is not setup for crowds, sorry, and do to renovations that are underway we do ask that you wait to attend one of our family and friends bouts, or tell your rollergirl that you want to come watch and we’ll see if we can accomodate you. Better yet, volunteer to do penalties, clocks, or score keeping!

LOCO Roller Derby in Kitchener is underway every Thursday night at the Queensmount Arena, email kitchener@locorollerderby.com for information or to sign up!

If you have ever thought about learning to roller skate and play roller derby, and you’re 18+ and female, you are welcome to come out and join LOCO Roller Derby! In 2011, LOCO has twice the fun, twice the fitness, and twice the friendship time planned!

In London, ON:
We are back! Jan 7, 7-9 PM we are back at the YMCA-Centre Branch to kick off 2011!
Costs: $5 per night, $40 skate cards for 10 nights!

February 12, 2011: LOCO Roller Derby in London, celebrates it’s first year anniversary!

In Kitchener, ON:

Jan 4: Info Night!  7-9 PM
Considering it, but not sure? Need to know where to get skates and gear? Want to know what it’s all about? Come on out to the first info session and sign up for the first practice!
McCabes Irish Pub and Grill  352 King St. W Kitchener, ON between 7-9 PM on Jan 4, 2011! (tomorrow!)

Jan 6: Thursday, 6-8 PM
First Practice in Kitchener! Come on out and try it. Email kitchener@locorollerderby.com to sign up!
Cost: $5 per night or skate cards $40 for 10 nights!

Insurance is being setup for 2011 now! Contact info@locorollerderby.com or speak to Nia Capps at London, or Pepper Assault at Kitchener to sign up now! Please check our schedule, or ABOUT section for more information.