Whip It - Movie or Motivational Exercise?

Well I finally got to watch it! Released today on DVD, I had the local video store hold me a rental copy until Big Boy could pick it up. After the events of today, and how crappy I still feel I was really looking forward to it.

As a storyline, meh, 4 or 5 out of 10. But the skating! It was pretty good, considering they tended to swing arms and body way too much to get any real speed. Had to laugh when they introduced the whip move, apt with the name of the movie of course. When we did that move back in the 70's/80's it was considered tre's cool. But ours involved a little more than this movie version: two girls forward, two girls backward, fifth girl forward on the outside being "The Whip". First girl facing forward (in the centre), after speed built up, plants herself i.e. brings herself to a dead stop, result - whip is cracked and fifth girl is propelled forward at an incredible speed. Made for some amazing stacks! Yeah, I was either the cracker or the whip. No-one puts Madmother in the middle...

As it is I could have skated as well as most in the movie, if I regain something akin to my peak speed and control... Well, I'd leave them all for dead. Big Boy was a bit floored at the violence having never witnessed a derby bout, the closest thing he could compare to it was Rollerball with James Caan in the 1970's. Similar, but not quite it, lol. He glanced my way a few times and threw in little asides:

"Odds are pretty high you'll get hurt."

"Are you sure you want to do this?"

"I had no idea it was so violent."


Yeah, well, a lot of it is for show, but the other side is if you ARE fast then you do minimise the risk of injury. They can't hit you if they can't catch you!

Now I really want to get back on the skates. If it is still cool over the weekend we may just manage it.

I feel the need... the need for WHEEL SPEED!