Roller Derby / March 2009
June 2014 | March 2007-
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A Brutal Pageant Indeed
- Gliding in and out of the adoring crowd, soaked in sweat, their costume make-up smeared and running, and even with bruises clearly rising to the surface of their skin, the skater's faces showed that joyful emotion of exhaustion mixed with elation seen after any tightly fought contest. And that was both the losers and the winners. This was the first bout of the Richter City Roller Derby – Wellington's first roller derby organisation – and so naturally called The Grudgemaker.
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Skate or… Die
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- No no no… the Richter City Shakedown: The Grudgemaker is not your traditional flat-oval-track-spandex-wearing roller skate race… heck no… this is a contemporary-all-woman roller derby bout at its absolute baddest and will of course feature the sport’s trademark theatrical athleticism, mock-violent pseudonyms and third-wave feminism aesthetic.The Richter City Shakedown: The Grudgemaker is the inaug
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