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I once heard a story about an athlete who was skipped over for a spot on their team because they cried after successfully completing a skills test. The coaching staff…
I don’t know about you but sometimes when I watch high-level roller derby (*cough*CHAMPS *cough*), it makes me feel like I’m not a very good athlete. I haven’t even played at…
Sit-down conversations and frantic emails from injured skaters are one of my least favorite parts of being Iron Octopus Fitness. Especially when they’re in the throes of a near panic attack…
2018 was my second attempt at a fun and carefree RollerCon. I often think of RollerCon as an event that is outside of regular time and space. Where the roller…
There’s an episode of Family Guy in which Brian (the dog) writes a bestseller called “Wish it. Want it. Do it.” In an interview, he’s called out for having the…
It was back in the days when I was line-up managing more often than I was doing anything else. The team I was managing for was in the Championship game…
Not long before I sat down to write this blog, I texted a friend of mine a picture of a pair of boots that he really wants to buy. And…
As a great philosopher once said… SKATERS SKATE. Okay. So. That’s not strictly accurate. One of my favorite Stoic philosophers, Epictetus, ACTUALLY said, “Writers write.” His meaning was not that if you wrote you…
“If you never do anything but the basics, you’ll never BE anything but basic.” This very cogent argument came to my attention after I shared the following image across social…