All-girl roller derby, loosely fashioned after the co-ed roller derby teams of yesteryear, took root here
in 2001 with the founding of the TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls. Several documentary films and one
reality-style national TV show have helped propel the popularity of this fast-paced, contact sport for
women. Proceeds go to local charities and to the expense of running the league. Occasionally
two shapely lovelies go at each other, swinging hard and fast, falling to the ground,
rolling and grappling as the beer-soaked, capacity crowd roars in approval. The website for the
show describes the sport as raucous bouts that combine fierce competition with jaw-dropping outfits and
crowd-pleasing personalities.The rollergirls impact has even had an effect on the local Austin real estate
market. Their colorful get-ups also include helmets and kneepads and flying scarves and the skates
on which they are racing around the oval track.Elbows fly, legs lock, bodies go careening
and sliding along the masonite track. It's Sunday afternoon at the roller derby bout; roller
derby with a Texas twist.Austin, the city requin tn that likes to keep itself weird, has given
birth to yet another entertainment craze that has gone national. The leagues in different cities
have begun to hold inter-city and inter-state competitions and a national tournament as well.The sport
has been hugely successful in Austin as both local leagues constantly draw sell-out crowds. The
spectacle drives fans into a hormone-and-beer induced frenzy.AE channel produced a 13-episode television program in
2005 called Rollergirls that was about the TXRD league, their skating and scrapping escapades, and
their life off the rink with boyfriends and bosses. Texas Rollergirls, in particular, are fiercely
committed to their slogan, a league for the skaters, by the skaters.Both leagues boast an
independent, tough-girl spirit and are proud of the way their movement grew from their own
sweat and muscle to grow within a few short years into a national phenomenon as
all-girl roller derby leagues have sprouted up all over the country. Enthusiasts swill ice-cold cans
of Lone Star and local bands fill the arena with loud, raucous Austin rock Nike Requin and
roll. On the track though, they assume their alter egos and put on a show
that one of them, Melissa Joulwan (Melicious), describes in her book, Rollergirl: Totally True Tales
from the Track, as a "dazzling carnival on wheels"a sport of speed-skating and brutal body
checks, played out against a backdrop of head banging rock. It's the community-based, locally controlled,
creative and free-wheeling spirit of fun and competition that sets Austin apart from so many
other cities in the country, that has been attracting people to come and settle here
for decades.Escapeso Realty helps investors looking for Austin Texas real estate. In addition, the Texas
Rollergirls play on a flat track, rather than the traditional banked track that the Lonestar
Rollergirls prefer.Volunteerism and inclusion are two of the philosophical and practical pillars of the success
of this Austin-born movement. By day, they are moms, special ed teachers, maternity nurses and
art school graduates. Fans of the flat track version of the sport love to sit
in the first two or three rows where the chances are likely that they'll become
part of the painful action when some blocker or jammer gets knocked off the track-there
are no rails or barriers-and goes sailing into someone's lap.Rough and tumble roller girls with
names like Raquel Welts, Misty Meaner and Lucille Brawl plaster and pummel each other all
through the four 20-minute periods of the game. The women risk bodily injury for the
thrill of extreme sport and the glory of winning; they don't get paid. A couple
of years later, most of the teams in the league spun off to form a
second league, Texas Rollergirls, due to a difference of opinion about how the original league
was managing things. Texas Rollergirls marketing director Rebecca Guitierrez (RadioActive) said that we've had many
folks move here because of the derby movement.That's because it's not just about the thrill,
the sex-appeal and the colorful, carnivalesque atmosphere of the sport. Ten women go whizzing past
wearing wild fishnet hoses. They provide a graphical search of the Austin MLS.
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