- Not Your Mama's Roller Derby makes you want to don your own quad skates and black fishnet nylons and join Providence's Roller Derby women, Burnin' Helen, Craisy Dukes, and Whip Tease who skate undaunted as they elbow pass their opponents on the track. Through interviews of the PRD's original players, current PRD players, film footage of earlier day roller derby and footage of the Philadelphia's East Coast Derby Extravaganza (2008), the filmmakers reveal what attracts viewers to this fast- action sport.—Anonymous
- Not Your Mama's Roller Derby makes you want to don your own quad skates and black fishnet nylons and join Providence's Roller Derby women, Burnin' Helen, Craisy Dukes, and Whip Tease who skate undaunted as they elbow pass their opponents on the track.The film examines the inception of Providence's Roller Derby league, one of the earlier leagues to be established under the W omen's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA). Early league members describe the skills besides skating that were needed to make the league grow. And the filmmakers turn their lens close-up on current PDR players to examine the other secrets of roller derby such as the rigorous training that players endure o become part of the elite league of fast-skating women. By following the league's all-star team, the Riveters, to the 2008 East Coast Extravaganza, the filmmakers find out how the league's all-star team matches up to other East Coast teams. Viewers become absorbed in a derby drama as Dolly Rocket, the former captain of the Riveters and now playing for Baltimore's Charm City Roller Girls, confronts her former teammates in a killing match.The Riveters return home and the audience learns important derby lessons about family and sisterhood.
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