Minimum Skills! Yay!

So, ummm, I kind of passed my minimum skills at practice yesterday…

I think.

I guess it takes a bit of explaining. With the season being over and everyone doing various holiday things, attendance at practice has pretty much plummeted. So yesterday (Thursday) it was a small group (less than 10 people) and one of the vets asked when the fresh meat would be testing out. The captain/president of the league replied that we’d be testing out around November 10th and the vet said, “Why not tonight?”

So we did.

It was only one other fresh meat and I testing out since our third girl didn’t show up to practice. We took to the track to do our 25-in-5 and I actually improved my time again! This time I got 4:45! It’s an improvement by 9 seconds, which I think is pretty damn awesome.

After that we went and did some other skills. Because it was an unplanned testing they didn’t actually have the list of skills and whatnot with them, so it probably wasn’t everything that would be on something when we test out. We did some weaving, stops, glides, falls, and jumping/hops.

Out of a possible 100 points, I got 89!! I need work on my t-stops (which I knew), my glides on my right foot (getting better!), and my lateral hops (I feel like I’m miserable at them, but I scored higher than I thought I would). I am very proud that I got a high score on my jumping and my tomahawks. We jumped over a small stack of books! Before derby I read books, but now I jump them.

So I’m technically not on the team since I still have a written test and my practice minimum skills test might not stick. I may have to do a more official testing out. The president is going to take it to the board and see if they agree that it counts as a pass, if not I’ll test again in a few weeks. I feel really awesome about it though! Unless I’m having a really horrible day, I can’t see myself doing any worse than I did yesterday. I actually screwed up a few things that I’m usually pretty okay at but I was insanely nervous.

In conclusion: SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!