Helsinki Roller Derby organises a Beginners’ Course (BEC) twice a year. BEC usually lasts about three months, during which time you’ll learn all the basic skills you need to lay the foundation for your derby career. If you want to know when the next BEC is scheduled, send us an email (beginners[at]helsinkirollerderby.com), or keep your eyes peeled for more info on Facebook and our website.
To join the BEC, you’ll have to be 13 or older. Skaters over 16 join our adults’ trainings.
Before each BEC, we also arrange Open Skate sessions, where you can try on quad skates and other roller derby gear under experienced skaters’ supervision. We advertise Open Skate sessions on our social media channels, Instagram and Facebook.
BEC usually costs €120 and it should be paid before the first BEC session. Please note that the price may vary based on the availability of training facilities.
HRD will loan you the basic gear for your BEC. The required gear includes quad skates (no inliners allowed!), helmet, mouth guard, knee and elbow pads, and wrist guards. For your own rookie sets, we highly recommend checking out Derbykirppis Rollaattori on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/182901385138964
Eager newbie, me likey!!! You’ll be doing some non-contact, pre-gaming drills already during the BEC. Newly graduated skaters from the Beginner’s course join first our Alpakka team’s trainings.
You can join Team Officials! HRD is always looking for referees and NSOs (non-skating officials) and there are no try-outs for these positions. The officials have a slower-paced training programme that runs throughout the year. The time commitment for officials is not as big, and female-identifying officials always have the option of trying out for our league during the next BEC. To find out more about officiating, please contact officials [at] helsinkirollerderby.com.
You can also volunteer. We always need people to help out with various tasks such as, but not limited to, bout production, announcing, fundraising, and general tasks related to running the league. If you’re interested, please contact info [at] helsinkirollerderby.com.
Our BEC is open to everyone over 13 years old. However, since Helsinki Roller Derby is a member of the Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby Association (WFTDA), we select the skaters in our competitive teams (All-Stars, Bees and C-Cassette) based on their gender policy*. The non-competitive team (Alpakka) is open to everyone!
* “An individual who identifies as a trans woman, intersex woman, and/or gender expansive may skate with a WFTDA charter team if women’s flat track roller derby is the version and composition of roller derby with which they most closely identify.” Read more about the WFTDA gender policy here!
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To become a member contact: info@helsinkirollerderby.com
For more information about practises and teams contact: trainer@helsinkirollerderby.com
Officials: officials@helsinkirollerderby.com
Practise times
Wednesday & Friday 19:00-22:00 @ Viikin monitoimitalo
Sunday 13:00-17:30 @ Viikin monitoimitalo
Membership payments, paid quarterly
Skaters 45 € / month = 135 € / quarter
Officials 10 € / month = 30 € / quarter
Volunteers 35 € / year
In addition skaters are required to have the Finnish Skating Association’s roller derby license (25€ for adults and people 16-17 years old, 15€ for people 15 years old and younger).
Helsinki Roller Derby welcomes new skaters with warm hugs! Transferring skaters can contact info@helsinkirollerderby.com for more information.
Helsinki has three traveling teams; All-Stars, Bees and C-Cassette. The teams compete in different levels. A team selection committee will appraise the traveling teams and designate skaters accordingly every three months.
Helsinki Roller Derby loves to have new coaches! Helsinki has a Coaching Department that plans and develops coaching, and offers support and a community for our coaches.
Helsinki Roller Derby’s teams select their coaches by voting. Helsinki has four teams that play and compete in different levels. Traveling teams All-Stars, Bees and C-Cassette.
In addition, our beginners’ courses welcome new coaches at all times.
We in Helsinki Roller Derby adore our officials! We welcome all kinds of officials, on and off skates, experienced and beginners and everyone in between to our Sunday scrimmages. Our officials’ community offers guidance, organises monthly workshops, provides an info channel for news in officiating roller derby, and serves as a place for discussing rules and roller derby in general.
Helsinki Roller Derby supports its officials to travel around the country and the globe to officiate.
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