what’s up Vanilla world?

it’s Matomic, i just got back from the biggest derby tournament of my life, it was called the Spring Roll, in Ft Wayne Indiana, pretty much the first men’s derby nationals, there were six teams there, representing all regions, the first time that’s ever happened.

i went with my team, The Dallas Deception, we were number 1 seeded in our pool, followed by #2 seeded Twin City Terrors from MN, and newcoming team the STL Gatekeepers, led by a good friend of mine, Magnum PIMP. the other pool had #1 seeded Harm City Homicide from Baltimore, #2 seeded Puget Sound Outcasts from WA(the only team i’d ever lost too) and newcomers the Race City Rebels from Indy.

the day started off with an upset win when the Gatekeepers edged out The Terrors, so of course, our first game is against a brand new team that just trumped a high ranked team, has a ton of steam heading into our game, we started out normal, me jamming hard and having my Vanilla Brass Knuckle boot and Backspin Revenge on that slick concrete floor do all the work, things went well until last second penalty trouble saw us down, we ended up losing by 3 points, it was cool tho, because my team is very cool with the Gatekeepers and we were glad they got the win. We then played for 3rd place against Harm City.

THAT GAME WAS CRAZY! we changed lead at least 15 times! i finally decided to let the Vanilla’s that i had do the talking so i kept lining up to jam, over and over and over, at one point i jammed 3 jams back to back, sat one jam, and jammed 3 more… needless to say, the hardcore jamming and the Vanilla’s paid off, we won 110-91.

i saw a ton of ppl rocking the brass knuckle boot, and almost my home team had the Revenge, which were awesome on that slick floor! i talked to a ton of ppl about the Brass Knuckle V2 coming out in a few months, the hype is INSANE! ppl can’t believe we are going to offer top grain leather for the same price as our old boots, they loved it!

well here are a few photos of me and my team rocking the Backspin Revenge wheels, and the Brass Knuckle derby boot. until next time….

Keep derby St00pidFast! Vanilla Style!

Matomic

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