RollerBug Roller Skate Shop Blog

Clam Slam is happening this weekend and we are super excited – derby girls from all over Canada and the U.S. will be in town to play and watch the Clam Diggers take on the Vagine Regime!  Cardinal Skate Shop and RollerBug.com will be there with as much stuff as we can pack up from the shop.  If you want to see great roller derby in Toronto go to torontorollerderby.com to buy tickets online or come by the store and grab some ($12.00 advance).

Kandy Barr and Dust Bunny of the (Gore-Gore Rollergirls and Cardinal Skate Shop) stopped by a GTA Rollergirls game to check out the derby action and set up a mini shop for the evening.

RollerBug.com present Full Contact: a roller derby photo event to exhibit and give props to roller derby photographers!

Full Contact will be taking place at Cardinal Skate Shop (Toronto’s only roller derby specialty store) on Saturday June 26th from 7pm-10pm.  If you are in the area (or even if you aren’t!) come by the shop and see some great roller derby photos.  All prints in the exhibit will be available to buy!!

Wow! We have been super busy This update is a little late but we finally opened our first brick and mortar store location in Toronto on March 13th, 2010.  The store is co-owned by Common Ground Skateboard Facility’s Glen Field and is roller derby, skateboard, snowboard, shoes and apparel shop!  The store location is called Cardinal Skate Shop and is located at 2142 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON.  We will post pics of the store soon….

We now have over 10 Fresh Meat packages online! New in stock for skates are the Sure Grip Rebel skates.  We also have many many other roller skate models for roller derby, outdoor skating, and indoor recreation skating.

We also finally stock 187 Pro knee and elbow pads, Smith Scabs Knee and Elbow pads, Protec protective gear including helmets in various colours!

We have RollerBug T-Shirts and Booty shorts for sale also!

RollerBug Roller Skate Co. Shirt

We have just put the very popular Bones Reds bearings on sale in our Roller Derby Shop for $39.98 $36.98! Hurry and get your set before the sale ends on November 20, 2009.  Bones Reds bearings are great quality bearings – not ABEC rated (who needs that anyway when you are the best!)  If you have questions or need advice on how to care for your bearings just contact me at Alyson@rollerbug.com.  Bones Reds bearings are serviceable and long lasting skate bearings.

Toronto Roller Derby League is hosting The Great Canadian Roller Derby Training Camp for all levels of skaters November 28th and 29th. The camp runs two days from 8:30am to 5:30 pm. Featured trainers who will be at the camp are Jackie Daniels (from Team Awesome and seen in Whip It) and Coach Pauly Perez (Team Awesome). Don’t miss this opportunity to train with the best and add to your derby skills! The Camp will feature morning Yoga classes and two separate tracks for intimate classes.
Check out all the details on the ToRD website and register today at RollerBug.

Toronto Roller Derby helps promote Whip It during the Toronto Film Festival.  In September Whip It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and Toronto Roller Derby held a exhibition bout at Dundas Square to help promote the movie.  ToRD skaters were dressed in Hurl Scout uniforms and spent the weekend doing Whip It promotions where ever the movie’s director and star – Drew Barrymore – was.  Here are some photos from the event.  Photos taken by Kevin Konnyu.  To see more of Kevin’s photos click here.