2:12pm Monday 9th June 2008
FOR women who like tough competition - and for anyone who likes watching women who like tough competition - Roller Derby is for them.
The Birmingham Blitz Derby Dames will be taking to the track for more fast paced, furious blocks and jams when they play Canada in their last game of the season.
Bee Bentley (aka Bee Sting) from Studley, who set up Birmingham Blitz Derby Dames, said that the game is not one to be missed.
"It will be a pretty special occasion as this is the first time an international team has come over and played in this country. It's going to be a really great night and a great game."
Roller Derby involves two teams of five players (four blockers and a jammer) skating anti-clockwise round a small, narrow indoor track.
The jammers try to break ahead of the pack by fighting their way through, gaining a point for each opposing player they pass or push out of bounds while the opposing blockers try to stop them.
The Birmingham Blitz Derby Dames vs Canada is on Friday, June 13 at Cocks Moors Wood Leisure Centre in Birmingham and starts at 7.30pm.
Tickets cost £8 for adults (£7.50 from www.blitzdames.com) and £4 for under 14s, OAPs and students from 07913 817230.
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