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<\/a>Dumond says that although she has never broken any bones herself, bruises are common, and she says with a chuckle that she\u2019s \u201csitting on one right now\u201d as we talk. She says she enjoys the \u201ccamaraderie of the team\u201d and the offbeat demographic of the Eves of Destruction.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really the only thing of its kind out there,\u201d she says of roller derby. \u201cIt draws women that want to be involved in full-contact sports. It seems to attract an independent-minded person that is looking to challenge themselves physically.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dumond says that roller derby is not just for women; there is a men\u2019s roller-derby association and a co-ed league. The Eves Of Destruction \u201chappens to be a women\u2019s league,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a gender policy in place that says that if women\u2019s roller derby is the version of roller derby with which you most most closely identify, then you are welcome. We\u2019re not going to ask for any gender verification.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dumond says the junior team, consisting of kids between the ages of 10 and 18, is gender inclusive. She coaches the junior team and says that coaching and playing are \u201cdifferent sides of the same coin.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI get a lot of satisfaction out of coaching the juniors and seeing them improve, seeing them come out of their shell, seeing them learn how to strategize on the track and work together, but I also really enjoy the physical challenge of playing myself,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
Because Dumond\u2019s number is zero, her team name is a play on \u201cno regrets,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt ends up being something we go by in most of our lives as time goes by,\u201d she says. \u201cThe derby names are chosen by the individual.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pfury S Pfaff, also known as Shannon Pfaffenberger, plays for the Margarita Villains\u2014one of the other teams in the league\u2014and also trains people who are in the Raw Meat and Fresh Meat programs; those are the new players, many of whom have never been on roller skates before.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love coaching Raw Meat and Fresh Meat,\u201d says Pfaffenberger, \u201cbecause I get to introduce people to the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pfaffenberger says that seeing people learn basic skating skills and then progress to become players is amazing, especially as they embrace the culture of roller derby.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are some people who have never put skates on until the day they come to Raw Meat,\u201d she says. \u201cSo I get to see them go\u00a0 from where they\u2019re not very good on their skates and are really anxious about being on their skates, and then through the Raw Meat and Fresh Meat programs they become completely confident on skates and able to play the sport. I get to see them grow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Correction: A previous version of this story misspelled Shannon Pfaffenberger’s last name. We regret the mistake.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Roller derby is a physically intense sport, and those involved in Victoria\u2019s Eves of Destruction roller-derby league know all too well the physical toll it can inflict on its players. Skye Dumond, whose team name is reGretel, sits on the league\u2019s board of directors; she coaches the Rotten Apples and currently plays for the Belles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-august-10-2016"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12315"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17582,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12315\/revisions\/17582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}