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Three days with these coaches will change your game forever... 
Whether you are in your rookie year or have skated with the best of the best, our roster of elite coaches from across North America will get you out of your box and push your game to the next level.
Suzy Hotrod
★ Gotham Girls Roller Derby
★ Team USA
★ DNN Best Double Threat (3 years in a row)

Suzy has hoisted the Hydra a record three times and co-captained the inaugural Team USA. She is one of the most recognizable players in modern roller derby and an outstanding coach!

 

Jackie Daniels
★ Windy City Rollers

America’s Girlfriend has been playing derby since forever. She has starred in movies as her derby self, skated in countless Regional and Championship bouts, won loads of team and league MVPs, coached all over, and has no interest in slowing down at all.
Smarty Pants
★ Texas Roller Girls
★ Team USA
★ DNN Breakout Player of the Year 2012


Over the past nine years Smarty Pants has gained the respect of the international derby community as one of the world's premier coaches in the sport at training camps such as Rollercon, Blood and Thunder and the 2012 Northeast Derby Convention.
Quadzilla
★ Rat City Rollergirls
★ Puget Sound Outcasts
★ DNN Best Double Threat 2012 (and 2011)

Quadzilla has been skating derby since '98 when he was featured on Roller Jam. He has spent the past decade coaching leagues all over the world and running GRN MNSTR where he designed the wildly popular Antik line of skates.

Demanda Riot
★ B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls
★ DNN Most Valuable Blocker 2012

Demanda Riot has been described as the most threatening blocker in roller derby. She has captained the B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls' all-star team, the Golden Girls, for years and is a natural at coaching.

  Onda Sligh
★ Oly Rollers
★ DNN Rookie of the Year 2012

We watch the amazing acrobatic skating skills of Onda Sligh and wonder "how does she do that?" If you saw Oly in the 2012 National Championship you know she has some skills to impart when it comes to jamming, footwork and agility.

Varla Vendetta
★ Windy City Rollers
★ Team USA

Varla Vendetta is one of the best and most experienced double threats in modern derby. She has played in every WFTDA Championship, racked up countless post-season MVPs, and has coached leagues all over the world.

  Carmen Getsome
★ Rat City Roller Girls

Carmen Getsome has been Rat City's MVP from 2008 - 2011 consecutively. She is a supremely motivated skater and business owner with her own clothing line, video training series, and coaching company that brings her to leagues all over the world.

Luludemon
★ Terminal City RG
★ Team Canada

Last year Luludemon was League MVP and Captain of Vancouver's All Star team. She runs the popular Pivotstar line and has been coaching at events like RollerCon, Blood and Thunder, and her Pivotstar Across the Pond Tour of the UK.

  Sarah Hipel
(aka KillBox)

★ Texas Roller Girls

Sarah Hipel is an eight year derby veteran and has played in seven WFTDA championship tournaments. She has held major roles in the WFTDA orginization, owns Faster Wheels, and is an all around great coach.

Tony Muse
(aka Peter Pan)

★ Your Mom Men's Derby

If you don't know Tony you should: his team won the MRDA in 2012 and ran the table at Spring Roll. He is known internationally as a speed skater, having won world titles on both inline and quad, including 18 world championships!

  Lil' Paine
★ Boston Derby Dames

Nominated for DNN's 2010 Rookie of the Year, and possibly the best player in New England, Lil' Paine is a double threat for the Boston Massacre where she is entering her third season as team coach.

Georgia W. Tush
★ Montreal Roller Derby
★ Team Canada

Georgia W. Tush is the founder of Montreal Roller Derby where she has been playing roller derby since 2006. She plays for their travel team, the New Skids on the Block, and is a member of Team Canada. She loves travel and has coached all over the world.

  Shark Week
★ Boston Derby Dames

Nominated for DNN's 2011 Rookie of the Year, New England favorite, Shark Week, is head coach for the Boston Derby Dames and captain of Boston's WFTDA travel team, The Boston Massacre.

Dee Stortion
★ Boston Derby Dames

Dee Stortion has been coaching Roller Derby since 2007 when she founded New Hampshire Roller Derby. She is now a league coach for Boston and skates for the Boston Massacre. She also owns the Bruised Boutique Skate Shop.

  The Rev
★ Montreal Roller Derby
★ MTL Mens Roller Derby

The Rev has skated with Pioneer Valley Roller Derby, and the Mont Royals, and is both a great player and an excellent coach. Each year he's helped lead Montreal's perennially strong New Skids on the Block to new heights.

Punchy O' Guts
★ Maine Roller Derby

Punchy O'Guts competed with Maine Roller Derby's all-star team for more than five years (captained the team for several of those) and is now an international traveling derby coach who writes books about roller derby (see more here).

  Dirty Deborah Harry
★ OC Roller Girls

Dirty Deborah Harry comes from a roller skating family and started her training at the age of four. She just completed 7 seasons skating for the OC Roller Girls travel team and has instructed derby players from the US to Australia.

Estrogeena Davis
★ Boston Derby Dames
★ Team Finland

Geena has been involved with roller derby since 2007 and has been coaching for a number of years, most notably as head coach of Team Finland in the Derby World Cup. Check her out at allderbydrills.com!

  Gypsy Rolls Lee
★ Gotham Girls Roller Derby

Gypsy has won numerous national and world skating titles and has a long coaching resume that includes camps at the Olympic Training Center. She is an excpetional technique coach and has brought those skills to Gotham, and now the Northeast Derby Convention.

Olive Spankins
★ Maine Roller Derby
★ Derby Lite

Olive skated for Maine's All-Star Team from '06-'10 and was the Head of Training for the league for three years. After retiring from competitive play she launched the Maine locations of Derby Lite: Roller Skating for Fun & Fitness, where she teaches weekly.

  Killer Quick
★ Maine Roller Derby
★ Derby Lite

Killer skated with Maine Roller Derby's WFTDA all-star Port Authorities until retiring from competitive skating in June 2010. She's now a Lead Instructor for Portland Maine's Derby Lite, a roller derby-based fitness class.

Additional Coaches, Workshop and Seminar Leaders

Bob Noxious (Brown Paper Tickets)
Bad Ass Mama (Boston Derby Dames)
Belle Air Bomber (Boston Derby Dames)
Haley Contagious (Boston Derby Dames)
Rhoda Perdition (
Providence Roller Derby)
Speedy Dan (Boston Derby Dames)
Splatrick Korolev (Boston Derby Dames)
Tanya Procknow
Tera Joules
Wes Turn (Providence Roller Derby / Mass Maelstrom Roller Derby)

Officials Trainers 

Testosteron Jeremy (Boston Derby Dames)
Riff Reff
Tommy Gears
Roo Lyn Forcer
Lethe L Ejection
Goldie Gloves

 
   
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