Any moment now the first bunch of kids will arrive.
They come at noon.
Around three I must pick up the youngest ones.
We begin with Vito, León and Alma for school and kindergarten.
Lautaro and Eleonora go to school, three blocks from here.
I didn't know if it was normal for a plane to take off in the snow.
I saw on august the 8th. or 9th.
a recording of a crosswinds landing...
- It's right next to the sea! - Right next to it!
I texted mom from the plane.
I told her I was scared about the rough weather.
Try praying, she replied. So helpful!
I turned off the cellphone, if that was her help.
Do we need to identify ourselves? Not yet, right?
LOCKER ROOMS SKATERS
EMERGENCY ROOM
Emergency medicine is a specialty that treats life threatening
acute and critical pathologies.
I work in an E.R. with patients that are brought in the ambulance
and demand immediate care.
I realized that I liked the way I responded during an emergency.
Once the problem was solved, I looked back
and I liked what I had done.
They say you play the same way you live.
In any sport.
If you watch carefully.
That's me, the one who's whose skating.
The one that walks down the street everyday.
The thing is my life is about this.
This is my life. My everyday, normal life
includes derby.
Hi.
- Did they invite you? - Yes. Nicole's mom told me.
I'll leave at twelve.
But nobody told me.
I can't take you to a place where there's no-
- I'll give you the number. - To Nicole's house.
Peachy! Peachy!
I've just come from duty
at the hospital.
24 hours.
I'm pretty fine today.
We're a group of women who were on a search.
For something like this, where you'd feel reflected
You could feel represented.
Where you feel that what you do is exactly who you are.
The Derby Direction
Romi, over here!
The girls in the house study hard.
I can't complain.
But it's their daily work.
Their only duty, so come on.
Take responsibility.
How were you at the their age?
Well, Eleonora.
The truth is I was finishing primary school at thirteen.
Nothing like them.
At home nobody completed secondary school.
We didn't have the culture of
finishing primary school and continuing our education.
Now I'm finishing secondary school.
It has a lot to do with derby.
I found the reason I needed there.
I'm almost forty years old.
As the american players have a very long service lives.
I also expect to have a long service life.
It will help to train my brain.
If the body does well, the brain does well, too.
- At what age did you have your first child? - I was 21 years old.
After my first child it was like the Terminator movie for me.
Derby name: Diamantina Team: Dirty Fucking Dolls
You fall into the real world, like the naked guy.
I came into reality, into life. Into what was really happening.
I started then to take charge of things.
We had to work at home.
Grocer's family.
My old man, a very severe man.
My mother worked next to where she's still living.
Here, in Lavallol projects.
Three blocks from here.
She started selling groceries.
She had a line half a block long waiting to buy from her.
So you had to work, look at mom.
She's overwhelmed. She needs help.
It sucks, but it's like...
I have two older brothers.
It's like the boys had a freedom I couldn't have, and that made me mad.
I can't do that? But why? Why not? Is it "no" again?
Is it always a "no" for us women?
My old man, he was raised in the countryside.
Without a mom. The youngest of nine.
My mom also had a pretty harsh childhood.
She was raised in a minority institution.
They worked it out fine, they raised a family with three kids.
We came out quite well.
We're parents.
I have no change.
What do you want?
Well, goodbye.
Did you see that? I'm a mother of teenagers.
I'm too young to take this.
She's happy if I give her money.
Motherhood is so gratifying.
I didn't do drugs as a kid, I left that for later.
As a girl I only got pissed sometimes
and I made out with a japanese guy.
Derby name: Barbie Turik Team: Sailor City Rollers
I ended up pissing in a street trash can.
Good luck is not usually on my side.
I have to make a great effort to achieve my goals.
qI'm Mar'a Marta Berdi–as, I'm 39 years old.
I'm a lawyer, I have three kids.
I was married twice, two kids from the first one and one from the latter.
I've been a lawyer for 15 years, it's gonna be 16 years soon.
I try to do my work well, and the prosecution
has to do it better than me, my dear attorneys.
So if thing's are not working well
it's because the lawyers are better than the prosecutors.
This is my lawyer's look.
The hardest part is find clothes to wear with this shitty hot weather
and cover the 22 tattoos I have.
I don't like to lose at anything, I've never lost a trial.
I don't like to lose at all.
I'm in a league that hasn't lost in years.
It's unusual that I get to a training without any make up on.
It might happen, I wouldn't die.
I like to look good, even when I train.
I feel better that way, and I do things better.
Otherwise I won't stop so well If I'm not wearing eyeliner.
I asked her If she's going to wear long leggings
because I usually play with short leggings
but today I'm wearing long ones and I feel weird
and I didn't want to be the only one so she saved my day.
- Why are you wearing the long leggings? - My legs are hairy.
Actually I'd rather be dressed for a game
than wear in civilian clothing.
I was going to practice figure skating, completely different. than wear in civilian clothing.
I was going to practice figure skating, completely different.
From the naïve to the hits.
Of course my mom told me 'Always the same with you'
'you can't do anything normal'.
The first thing I saw was the hits, it looked very violent.
I mean, this sport.
Now it's different.
Plus I know she loves it and I know she's good at it.
So modest.
My old woman is a Pilates instructor.
She has a beauty parlor at home.
Actually at her home, I don't live with my parents anymore.
I don't really know what my biological father does for a living.
He's in Bariloche city and I don't know anything about him.
Derby name: Trouble Team: Sailor City Rollers
He always had a drug problem, when I was little he was absent
because he went from one treatment to another in rehab centers
Blah.
He was a very good father when he was sober.
He was cool with me, I had a better relationship with him than with mom.
Despite everything.
He played with me, he wouldn't scold me.
He pulled me out of any punishment.
He would always spoil me, mom was the severe one.
Well.
We're all from Uruguay.
When my parents came here they went to my father's mother's house
who lived in San Miguel.
She was a shitty old lady.
The kind who won't let you touch anything.
Very meticulous.
She was mean to me be cause I was dark-skinned like my mom.
So she didn't care for me because of that backward old woman bullshit.
For me my real father is the guy my mom married later with.
He raised me like I was his own.
He has a music shop. He sells tango music.
Sometimes you want to pass and speed up to break.
When you're a jammer.
- To pass between the two. - Obviously.
You also do that. So then I would duck.
- When I see her. - But you let her through!
- But she would fall hard! - No!
- Try it sometime, you'll see. - No!
There's no chance of that because she has a stance prepared
to not losing lose her balance, you see?
She comes like this.
She arrives with a strength
and she will keep going no matter if she collides or not.
- Do you have a boyfriend? - Girlfriend.
- For how long? - It's been more than two years.
My first experience was a little before I began derby
but it was something brief.
She was my best friend then.
After that I began doing derby
and it was a circle filled with women.
I met girls who were attracted to other girls
which was new for me at the time.
And then I said 'why not?'.
Why shouldn't I do it if I liked another woman?
It has nothing to do if she's a woman.
When I was younger I used to be obsessed with women.
I never realized it could be like that.
I wanted to be like some of those girls
but I guess that I actually liked them.
I don't relate the word 'pleasure' with sports.
For me fucking is a pleasure. Or eating chocolate cake.
It's something else, like satisfaction, not a pleasure.
The sport gives me something else
No matter what I do, I always give all of me.
Derby name: Papap Team: 2x4
You can have a very demanding career
and practice a very demanding sport at the same time.
I've had marathons getting through my shift and training.
Play a bout, take a shower and run to the E.R. duty again.
All of it in a neverending day of more than 50 hours.
It's like everything, you have to do the things right.
Just like everything you want to be in your life.
Yesterday I dreamed I was stabbing Manija.
I'm not sure that's a good subject.
Hello Manija.
Manija is Carla. My sister.
She's the pretty sister, I'm the smart one.
We always did everything together, and always the same stuff.
My mom was obsessed with us doing ballet
skating and that kind of things.
There are a lot of pictures of our childhood
with Manija wearing a beautiful dress
posing beautifully.
And I'm behind her with a t-shirt copying her.
Without any grace.
Yes, Manija is great, she's really great.
It's very nice to watch her play.
I'm quite sensitive now because she's no longer here.
Manija went to live to Ireland. She's skating there.
I think that in a short time we lived together
we built something very strong together with roller derby.
It's probably very important who Manija is as Manija
that makes me call my own sister Manija.
Once I had a dream that was worse. I dreamed that Manija was sick.
She told me 'I don't want to live anymore, kill me'.
And then I shot her in the head three or four times.
Suddenly she said 'no, I don't wanna die'.
- 'I don't wanna die'. - That sucks.
'save me, save me', and I was like fuck you!
How will I explain that I blasted your head
because you wanted to die and now you regret that.
But it was always like that with Manija.
She asks me to pluck my eyebrows, she does one eyebrow
and then she says she's tired and leaves the other one hairy.
The dream I had is about her, not me.
About how she is.
I thought that we were every character in our own dreams.
One is every character.
I don't know, you're the one that goes to therapy, not me.
If I had one free hour one evening during the week
I'd rather have a nap than going go to therapy.
Welcome to the second Violentango.
You will announce the points
- once they are already- - Once the reff has called them.
- Yes, they told me about- - Right, great.
I found out about derby from Whip It.
I loved everything about it when I watched it.
I was one of the first ones to get to this.
I saw the movie, I searched roller derby Argentina.
There was a post on the Taringa site.
It was crazy that I arrived right at the first meeting.
And with me being so shy.
I didn't connect with people outside my everyday life.
It was crazy because I used to go church.
It was an evangelical church.
I was twenty, I obviously needed to find something.
How did you get into an evangelical church?
Because of a friend who insisted to me that I go.
I just went.
Everything I do I give my 100%.
I'm not saying I didn't believe then
but it was a phase, I took the best of it
and I moved on.
How what was the breaking point when you decided to leave the church?
It's actually because of many ideas I have which
directly contradict...
For example?
Derby Name: ANIMAL Team: 2x4
Homosexuality, I think.
After many years I found out-
Not find out, but I realized that I'm bisexual, so to speak.
That was the point when I began to break away.
I couldn't accept that, it was not reasonable.
And many things like that.
Actually my parents don't know it, but I wouldn't have a problem telling them.
'You know what...', because it's natural.
I went through all of it in a natural way.
They know how I think, since I was a little girl.
I've always have had a certain sensitivity with specific issues.
Like not eating meat
hating the police.
This was one of the issues I stood up for as a kid.
That it's not wrong. It's natural.
Nothing, all that.
I tried to find an answer, or whatever I was looking for.
Today with derby I feel I don't need to look for anything else.
I have an activity that completes me and brings the best out of me.
I was not the kind of person that tell to another:
'that thing you do is wrong'.
'You're going to hell for that'.
That's what a religious person does.
But it did influenced my derby life at first.
I didn't like the expressions hell, burning fire
things like that
related with to the devil, mostly.
If I think of the evil in this world.
Like rich people, that sort of thing.
That is all represented by the devil.
We had the Bully Chicks team and the Cowgirls from Hell.
I didn't get in the Cowgirls because I didn't like the name.
Animal was actually the last derby name I've had.
I had lot of names.
But the first official one was Holy Disturbance.
It reflected that ambiguity I had as a christian person.
Yes, I'm gonna beat the crap out of you on the track.
but that doesn't mean...
I'm not a good person.
As I grew older in derby...
And also in my personal life.
I felt more comfortable with my current name.
It represents well who I am now.
What are you now?
An animal.
In derby every skater has a derby name
which is a skater name.
That derby name is supposed to be like an alter ego
that one takes into the track
or just an artistic name that you like.
There are players with intimidating names
or names that refer to personal tastes.
But it's something that will represent you as a player.
When I decided to choose my derby name
it didn't make sense to me to be Agustina Mollo
to be the same person I already was.
I had the chance to pick another name
and my sister says she told me to use one related to Miss Marple.
My derby name is Miss Jam Marple.
Because of the Agatha Christie's character.
Miss Marple is an old detective.
She's a nuisance, a curious nosy woman. It comes from her.
And are you a nuisance and a curious nosy woman?
I think I am a little bit, yes I am.
It has more to do with a matter of your attitude on the track.
Everyone said that while I was playing
no one would notice me until I suddenly did something
and then they'd say 'oh look, Mollo was there'.
And she's like that, and old lady just asking things
and then she solves a crime and no one noticed her before.
I am Agustina Mollo. I live in La Plata.
I'm 24 years old.
I used to study psychology, but not anymore.
I live here at home with my mom, my sisters and Noah.
Noah is my son, he's...
He's 8 years old.
Now you can go play some games.
I was 15 years old when I got pregnant.
At that age you think you're an adult. I was 15 years old when I got pregnant.
At that age you think you're an adult.
Derby Name: Miss Jam Marple Team: Chat Noir
When you turn 25 you realize you were not and you're not now neither.
At that time I thought 'it's ok, I'm pregnant'.
'Well, hello mom'.
It's not as simple as being prepared or not prepared.
It happens and you deal with it as best you can.
Sometimes you do it right
and you also make mistakes along the road.
And that's the moment when you're prepared.
Even if I had another child now I wouldn't be prepared to...
make it the best I possibly could.
What did your parents say?
Dad was against it.
He understood that I was young and I had to finish school
and study and that sort of stuff.
Mom is bipolar, what they call bipolar these days.
She had like outbursts of love and caring
or the exact opposite, violence
fury, anger.
At first my mom agreed with it.
She was in a kind of zen phase, but in the middle of my pregnancy
she threw me out of our home, she couldn't bear it.
I went to live at Noah's father's place, I was there for three years.
I hardly saw my mom then, I didn't see much of my family.
One day I broke up with him and I went back...
Later she told me that on november 25th, one day before my birthday
which is the day of the miraculous medal, she asked the Virgin for my return
So I left him and moved back both because of her.
Mom.
My mom is 52. My dad is 50.
They've been se parated for 13 years.
I remember they used to fight in the kitchen
because they took so long that you'd get hungry
and you couldn't get to the fridge because they were arguing.
But I do not remember what were they fighting about.
Dad is an alcoholic, now I assume that should have been
one of the issues for them.
- He kept drinking? Still does? - His whole life, yes.
Yes, too much.
That's also why we don't see him.
He works every day an d when he goes out, he goes out.
He goes out and gets pissed.
He'll end up dead under a train and nobody will notice.
I don't remember much, anyway. I guess I repressed a lot at some point
and there are things I don't remember from the first three years with Noah.
I guess it's normal, too, when you're having a horrible time.
Noah's father's family is people very...
Kind of sociopathic.
Manipulative kind of people.
When I broke up with him, for example, they didn't want to let me go
because I wasn't supposed to break the family apart.
How can you break your family apart?
You have to sacrifice your whole life and happiness
to have a a dad and a mom living in the same home.
It wasn't even my house and we weren't even living alone
because we lived with his parents-
- Was it an anguished phase? - Yes, it was horror.
I think that's why I can only remember half of the things.
Do you dream about marriage, those kinds of things?
Yes, we have a lot of plans.
- Children? - Yes, eventually I guess so.
How would you do it?
We thought about something we saw in a reality show once
a lesbians reality show.
It's some sort of homemade artificial insemination method
with a dildo, it's really good.
I saw it on the tv, you make a perforation on a dildo
and then you put a syringe with a catheter inside.
Obviously you ask someone for the sperm donation
You get that and since it stays alive for a while
you put it in the syringe and after coitus you finish with it
and I thought it was original and cheap.
I have a friend with two daughters.
I love those girls a lot.
But she definitely had to be a mother.
I can't see myself taking care or depending on someone like that.
You want to do something and you have to stop doing it.
Or you don't feel like cleaning the bathroom
but the bathroom has to be clean.
I don't feel like cooking, you have to cook.
You can skip a meal, your son can't.
I can't picture me like that.
I'm a bit careless, like when I don't visit the doctor
But well, it's just me.
During the first three years living in his father's house
I was completely in charge of Noah.
I can count with one hand how many dipers
did his father changed.
That was very hard. I got up
I fed him, I cooked for him
I bathed him, and I'd cry every time I put Noah to sleep
because it was so hard. I don't know...
So hard for him to fall asleep.
and after spending the whole day caring for the baby
I wanted to sleep, too.
Why did you split up?
That guy was crazy as shit.
He was mad, he was violent.
The kind of people who pass their violence on to you
and you end up being the crazy one.
I stopped getting together with my friends
I came to my mother's house on saturday from 2pm to 3pm
If I was three minutes late he would call me on the phone
and asked me where I was, who I was with.
It was a kind of a violent situation.
After a while I started dating another guy
for three years and a bit.
Why didn't it work out?
At some point I got tired.
There was a moment I couldn't look at him in the face.
All the time I just wanted him to leave.
And I wanted to leave, to stop seeing him-
Why was that?
I really can't say. I spent an year like that.
- A whole year like that? - Yes.
And he was having a horrible time too. It was better to make it one bad moment
instead of all the time.
Sounds strange, why did you feel that way?
- Was he cool with you? - Yes, perfect.
Watch out, watch out!
You're gonna have a good bath.
I did boxing for a while.
It was good as a sports discipline.
The training is very complete.
It's all about you and the gym.
And I was always...
Until I...
Before my husband I always felt lonely.
So I didn't want something that would lead to loneliness again.
How long have you been living here?
12 years in this house.
And in this neighborhood since I was born.
I've been away from Lavallol for about four years.
But they say you always return to your first love.
How did you meet your husband?
We knew e ach other since I was 14 and he was 19.
We messed around a bit back then.
We'd get together now and then over the years
There was a moment then when I was meant to move to Italy.
Along with my family at that time, my first three kids.
- You were in a relationship then? - Yes, my kids' father was already in Italy.
And I say, 'what now?'.
I'm gonna be ok in Italy, but what a sadness.
And well.
One day I didn't fly, and I stayed.
I went to live with the love of my life.
He did too.
So we stayed together.
Do you remember the first time they saw you playing derby?
It was the first exhibition the park.
Strong, stronger.
- But listen, if I keep pulling... - We'll twist it on top.
What's this sport about? A bunch of girls in skates
practicing a contact sport.
Nice, thrilling, that was a precious day.
How could you be late, get a boyfriend.
No, thanks, I have a husband and I'm happily married.
To share it with them...
This team consists of Thelma Diamantina 01...
Because they had only seen trainings until then.
Balls. Ovaries.
This big.
I got to roller derby accidentally.
I had no idea what it was about.
An acquaintance told me about this sport played with quads skates.
He knew I'd practiced figure skating as a kid.
I started training with Mambas Negras.
I had no idea of what it was, I had never seen a track.
I had not seen a game, or watched the Whip It movie.
At first they made me play as a jammer.
They made me run and see what happened.
Then I played my first scrimmage, my first friendly game.
I didn't understand a thing.
I was curious so I searched what was it all about
I wasn't one of those who saw Whip It and got all excited.
The first time I saw derby I thought it was mayhem.
That I wouldn't understand it. That I couldn't do it.
It would be too hard for me to coordinate
the blocking, helping, and everything on skates
since I'd never skate before.
I began skating with derby, it was really hard for me.
I was always the last to get things done.
But I skate now.
I think it was more about doing something new
than practicing a sport.
If I had had to start the first rock and roll band in la Plata
I probably would have done it.
I got into derby.
Together, together!
Get together!
It must be the tenth time I've come and I still don't get the rules.
I don't understand a thing because it's my first time here
but I like it.
Shut your mouth! Shut up!
I like women, and watching them play like this
really causes gives me an interesting feeling.
It's surprising to see women playing.
One would think that women are not that violent.
But you can see at the doors of a pub
women are the firsts ones to come to blows
but those are real hits
at least here they are practicing a sport.
What are you calling, dude?
My first impression is the girls seem to be made of rubber
because they fall, they stand up, they fall again, they stand up.
They have lots of guts. That impressed me a lot.
We've come many times, and each day I feel worse
because they hit a lot.
I think that's bad, bad.
Because every time a girl falls, specially my granddaughter
it hurts me more than her.
About the hits, we hope that no one gets hurt
that no one gets injured.
But my granddaughter's team must win.
I watch a soccer game and I understand what's going on
and what they have to achieve to win.
My mom still doesn't understand.
- I do understand. - Really? Tell me a bit.
I understand they go round and well...
She sees me skating and says 'she skates nice', and that's it.
Obviously the one that scores more points is the winner
but the whole process to score a point
and all the game dynamics
you won't understand it even if they give you
a page of rules.
How do you score points if there's no ball?
People is shocked by the fact that there is no ball.
I've been told that we just run like morons because there's is no ball.
Roller derby is a contact sport.
It's played on skates, in teams.
In an oval track.
Where the skaters move counter-clockwise
and that is known as the derby direction.
Each team can have 14 skaters.
It lasts an hour, it has two periods.
Each period is divided into races called jams.
Only five skaters enter the track.
Four blockers and one jammer for each team.
The jammer scores points, jammer means runner.
The ones with the stars on their helmets.
A whistle blows.
And the jammers go.
The first thing jammers find is a pack.
group of blockers from both teams.
Where your teammates try to help you pass and win the race
and players from the opposite team
try to keep you from passing.
Points are scored once you finish your initial pass
and meet again with the opposing players.
In your second lap the scoring pass begins.
How do you score points? For every rival you pass
you score a point.
So, first pass you don't score
and in the second you start scoring points.
She adds a point for every blocker she passes.
That's it.
What else can I say?
Anything else?
And there are lot of things more.
Lots of strategy, that on a first look...
For those watching it for the first time
or asking for the first time, you can't explain more than this
because you'll make their head hurt.
We have a team that learned the game bit by bit
like in the park, with no rules.
Not knowing the rules, and the few ones we knew
it was because the referees had to call them on to us.
During the game...
It's hard, you know. Lots of anger.
But they kick you out, they kick you out, they don't let you be.
That's what I think, the referees don't let you be.
Go suck a dick, man.
Faggot!
Come on, fag, nothing happened.
Break her mouth!
They didn't do anything, man. You fucked us.
All of you fucked us.
Everything's cool with the girls but you were all bossy!
It's a perfect mix, skating and contact.
It's beautiful.
If you see a video about hits and falls
it can be scary, there are hard hits.
When I saw some 30 seconds videos
they were all about hits, and I thought I wanted to do it.
Some girls come to try and never come back.
They wear make up, wear the stockings
but they don't want to run or anything.
They don't give all of themselves.
Then they lose the illusion of being a roller derby girl.
This is nice.
Little wheels. I'm happy.
I'm going to skate.
I tell my teammates to hit me.
So I can be prepared.
As a jammer you use your shoulders
so you need strong shoulders.
So you don't hurt your collar bone.
You play with your hip, you have to be strong.
You need strong legs to stop.
There are a lot of injuries because of poor training.
It's a contact sport.
I have muscles that need to be prepared
to receive a hit.
I liked it when you pushed four girls to the floor.
Do you remember? You did it like this and they fell down.
Give me a kiss, dear.
- Seriously, do you remember? - That was for you, dear.
You're going at full speed and suddenly let your energy go
But no, I promise. It's not scary.
You prepare hard for it. It's very good.
Never scared.
Not scared of the hits.
I'm scared of the hits.
I don't like being hit.
As a player that's why I try to dodge those things.
Anyway during the jam you get hit and it's not that bad.
It doesn't hurt that much unless they break your leg.
- Did they break you a leg? - They broke me a leg.
How was it?
The guy in the bus asked me the same.
I got a broken tibia and fibula. - OCTOBER 2013-
I have a titanium prothesis.
My mind was elsewhere and they hit me
and broke my leg.
My leg spun to a side.
My foot kept going ahead.
The tibia got fractured...
in a spiral shape.
It was broken before I touched the ground.
Legal?
Very legal, perfect, neat, beautiful.
I congratulated her, now I kind of regret that.
This one's better.
It's like this.
It goes up in a spiral and there's another fracture there.
Here's another one. Broke in two.
Do you remember standing aside like this?
I told you to come. Yes, like half an hour.
Until I told you to come, that I had broken
and you said 'yes'.
Remember?
Yes, it was obvious you had broken.
Yes, right.
I stayed down and I didn't move.
My friend Manuela came and asked me what happened.
She said well, 'if Mollo says she broke, she broke'
because I never make a fuss for a fall.
They put a cast on me, surgery, all of that.
How long?
9 months total.
- Have you played again? - No.
- Do you want to? - A lot.
What do you think, Noah, does she have to keep on playing derby?
Yes.
So she can break the other leg, can you imagine that?
Yes, I can, it wouldn't be funny.
I went to a doctor with my x-rays.
- FEBRUARY 2014-
And he told me I'm fine and I can skate.
I'm not gonna cry. I've already cried.
Now I'm going to skate and see how it feels.
You can't play again, because you can break...
the doctor told her that if I break again
over the same fracture and prothesis it would be a huge mess.
Those were his exact words.
So my mom is convinced that I can't do this again.
Mom says I didn't learn the lesson
because I want to play again.
But I don't know if that's the lesson, 'ok, I'm broken, I drop it'.
It's hard to see a hobby so... demanding.
I guess she'll get used to it.
To the idea that...
it's not much of a hobby.
Or it's a hobby I want to keep doing even with my broken leg.
FEBRUARY 2014
MARCH 2014 First game after the injury
It keeps me a long time away from home.
They suffer for this, first my husband
who has the anti-derby league.
If you want to split up young
get your woman into roller derby.
He says since I'm doing derby
I don't care about anything else, I only talk about it
like soccer players talking only about the ball.
But they need their mother to be happy
and if she's happier she'll treat them better
and will give them more stuff.
Look how nice that shiny pink leotard is.
I used to buy my first fishnet stockings here.
When I practiced ballet in the national school.
Ballet, modern dance, gymnastics, music, drawing, French, folklore.
Nobody used those when I was a kid.
The leggings.
I'm crying.
I love skating, I can't live without it.
But there's a moment I want to do things so well
that I miss the pretty part of this.
- NOVEMBER 2015- Ok, Panda!
Wait, wait.
It's not the t-shirt. The girls...
All Star team from 2x4 League, has not lost yet against Sailor City Rollers.
We all spaced out and they're training.
Each of you must think who's training enough
and who's needing more trainings.
Whoever is training a lot can train more.
They won 120 to 62. A month before they'd won 230 to 102.
This means they are training and we're not training enough.
Now get together, celebrate, show your bras.
But it's not the t-shirt, it's not a confusion.
The girls are training and I congratulate them.
Team Osom, Team Osom...
At first they complained because we didn't win.
They stopped complaining when we won.
- Mom is very competitive. - I am competitive, it's true.
After those matches we lost over and over again
mom used to say 'but you let her go'.
- Yes, sometimes she escapes from me. - I don't remember that.
If I were able to get her every time I'd be a machine
not a human playing derby.
I can't forgive myself when something escapes from me.
I should have been there so it couldn't happen.
- Do you feel the same in your life? - No.
In my life I don't mind.
I like them to win whenever I go.
At first I couldn't believe when they lost.
They have to win.
The thing is Priscila never knew how to lose.
She didn't allow me to participate of the pi–atas
because I would be sad If I couldn't grab many presents.
Of course, so she wouldn't suffer. It's true, I didn't let her.
If she competed she had to win.
There's a serious matter of self-demand
which someday I'll claim to mom.
- Did your mom watch you play roller derby? - Never.
I won't allow it, dear.
I have a brother who killed himself practicing a sport.
Do you think I want to see my daughter
risking her life for this nonsense?
No wait, I'm not risking my life.
Norberto did risk his life, he did parallel bars and fell badly.
He was 25 years old.
She doesn't come to see me because she doesn't want to.
This is a good reason to say but it's not true.
Don't shout, please, I can't concentrate.
I tell you moms are not happy with this derby thing.
But you watched me skating in the Canada world cup, on DirecTV.
- Barbie Turik played 2011 World Cup in Canada. It was streamed online. -
She watched on DNN.
I liked it a lot when she got to the world cup.
I was thrilled to see her there.
I liked to see her there.
How far she got to, with her team
but it was her, my daughter.
My mom must have told the whole neighborhood
about her two daughters being part of the national team
of who knows which sport it is.
They framed our pictures
with the national team shirt.
It has my number and all.
The woman who made it is so skilled. If was a gift for my birthday.
Amazing, lots of cockroaches.
My fans are Eleonora, Alma, Vito, León and my mom.
Go thelma, go!
They are messing around...
I had the accident on friday and they had a game
the following sunday and I went.
At night they had to replace my cast
because I jumped like crazy.
Here at home we support soccer.
We have the culture of soccer.
We're huge fans.
In soccer, roller derby, tennis, whatever.
What do you like about the game?
That you win.
See, they never understand why we don't win and celebrate.
And if they lose?
- If they lose they can go on. - We can go on.
If you lose you have to keep trying.
This boy, what a character.
What are those, babies?
León is the one that goes
and use his mafia style in our buffet.
He takes just two pesos and wants a hot dog and a coke.
Here's a bill, give me two cokes, I want a cake.
Don't start.
My husband always supported me gladly.
Though it was hard that I left on Sundays.
Sundays are important for a family.
Did he ever tell you anything about how you played?
I remember when...
we finished the first half in the first Violentango date
I saw him and he talked to me like this, very serious:
You're not playing at all.
After the beating we have received.
The girls have to call it off because they see we're mad
and we're going to fuck it up.
Easy, we're doing what we like the most.
- Playing this way. - Like this, rough.
It's four points against seventy but I don't give a shit.
We scored four.
You're not playing at all, he said to me.
He knew me well so he gave me the coldness I needed.
It was 'cool off because you're messing it up'.
'Cool off because you're screwing it up'.
This these girls are in control. And it was true, they owned it.
- MARCH 2012-
- Dirty Fucking Dolls had their debut against 2x4 League
in the 1st. date of the 1st. Violentango tournament. -
We are 40 already.
My family? We're a group of... a beautiful gang.
A beautiful gang.
Always there, little warriors.
The faces with dirt.
The knees with marks...
of going wild.
I don't know...
Hard workers.
And the pillar of the family who is with us from the Ether.
Here, in the heart, in the fight.
In everything.
How did he die?
- A heart attack. - Very unexpected.
Yes.
Did you consider leaving derby when he died?
I never thought of leaving it.
I would have lost all those sundays with my family in vain.
I invested those to have the team
and make this work in the neighborhood.
Vero came and told me 'ok, Thel'
'We talked with the girls and we're pulling out', she said.
'We want to know your opinion'.
I said no...
I heard what she said, but the decision was wrong.
We have to go to the second game.
We can not pull out.
So it was
that two weeks after Pablo died, I was training again.
'Big Paul Forever'
- MAY 2012- 2nd. Date Violentango Tournament
There I felt...
This is the place, I'm safe here.
Nothing bad can happen here, I am looked after.
Everyone did...
a huge hug, the whole community.
The loss was so big that everyone wants to see you do well.
All that nurtured me, one little hug, and another.
A greeting, and another.
It was the best way for me
to honor him
and all the support
Pablo gave to me
so I could grow into what I wanted.
If there's something I always felt over the wheels
It's freedom.
It's like a sunny window in the middle of a tunnel.
This comes to take your life.
I remember Pablo saying 'Listen to me, kids'
As a joke.
'Anything you want to ask mommy'
'put yourselves on wheels and she will listen'.
I can't recall the first tournament I played.
I only know we lost every single game.
From 2014 I have stronger experiences.
Everything that Mambas was.
What it means to be Mamba.
Mambas helped me find my place.
The way you have to become unexpendable.
What you have to do for the team to need you.
Y learned that with Mambas.
When we played with the national team against Texas in Austin
it was our first reality check in the U.S.
I felt well, I wasn't overwhelmed.
I felt like I had to give twice as much.
On that day, when we were back at the hotel
we took turns with my roommates
to have a half hour immersion bath.
I couldn't leave the bath because I couldn't stop crying.
Thrilled, anguished.
Thinking how Mambas had given me everything.
Mambas taught me that you can always give more.
When you can't give anymore, you close your eyes
you push your legs and run one more lap.
And I couldn't stop, I couldn't leave the bathroom
because I never cry like that.
It's always key in life to have a purpose, a goal.
A place to get to.
Derby gives me that, I'm always looking for more.
You keep moving those goals ahead
so the next day you'll have a new objective to pursue.
The obsession is defined as an intense but brief feeling.
This is intense and it doesn't stop, it keeps going.
I see Thelma and I don't even know how old is she but...
She does it.
And she is old. How old is she?
What do you do afterwards?
Do I hang up my skates? No way.
I feel anguish over retirement so I try to work harder than the others
because I'm 15 years older than them. I would never retire if it depended on me.
I say I'm going to do this until I get broken.
My aspiration is to skate until my daughters can play.
To share the track with them.
That's my goal today.
Can you picture yourself playing with your mom?
Yes.
- And your sisters? - Yes.
Yes, I want to.
Why do you think roller derby causes such a fanaticism?
Because it's the best sport in the world.
The 'Putas de fuego' were my first friends.
You know, the team from U.S.
You'll make me say rock and roll, punk...
I listen to Silvio Rodriguez, Caetano Veloso.
I don't know why.
The 'putas' ('whores') thing is probably why I made friends with them.
A little bit of Ismael Serrano when I'm in a good mood.
Dyed hair, lots of tattoos...
It's a tribe... a different world.
Not that it's abnormal, but it's different.
The fat rough hitting lesbians wearing a tutu cliche
is very far from reality.
You can take out the fat tutu girl part.
Stop it, I'm sinking.
That's why people hate me, I'm hateful.
Mom, you're so cool.
You're the best.
I said 'no, there are girls that skate well'...
'No, but you have style'.
- I'm going to tattoo a phrase. - Where?
- On my calves. - On the eyebrow.
Shut up, you'll make mom go mad.
- What do you mean the calves? - On the calves.
And when you're wearing a skirt?
It's a sport for delicate women if a delicate woman wants to do it
and it's for not delicate women if they want to do it.
You can be... I don't know.
Anything. And you can play derby.
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