When I'm interested in something, I spend countless hours on the internet researching it. It took me a year of researching before I booked my Disney Cruise last February.  I'm a FIRM believer that knowledge is POWER. So when I was tossing the idea of joining a roller derby league around in my head, I researched and read many blogs, forums, web sites, etc about just that. In other words...I came into this with eyes wide open. Or so I thought.

Is there such a thing as a "Derby Ghandi"? I hope there is. As a freshie, I have lots of questions that I simply cannot bog down the league FB page to ask. Questions like....

Can you have pretty nails and still derby? (I'm thinking not because even tho my falls in practice have "pretty much" been controlled, I've still broken like 3 nails. I have an obscene obsession with OPI nail polish so If I can't successfully marry Derby and pretty nails I'm in some serious trouble.)

Is there a number of wheels one can have before they're viewed as a "wheel collector" vs. "thoroughly prepared" Derby Dime?

How in the hell do you put BACK ON tights that have HUGE holes in them from your last bout? Don't the holes just get bigger and bigger and bigger pretty much ripping at the crotch or is that just me.

Can pad stink be smelled by the wearer or just the poor player standing next to them? Some of my fellow Freshies NEED to be washin' them some pads. I'm just sayin'.