Coach Caesar
Caesar got involved in roller derby in 2005, as a coach and announcer of the Ohio Roller Girls. As an OHRG coach, he mostly worked with advanced skills and bench coached the WFTDA charter team, but also worked with rookies and fresh meat and bench coached the "B-team" from time to time. He was also a Vice President with OHRG, overseeing all games-related issues and contributing to the general organization of the league. He was one of the principal organizers of the 2007 WFTDA East Region Tournament in Columbus. Caesar left OHRG in March 2010 to pursue other derby interests.
He has helped train several Midwest and Ohio Valley Leagues, (Gem City, Cincinnati, Naptown, Derby City), as well as consulted with numerous others. Recently, he helped write the first WFTDA training manual, contributing to sections on blocking, jamming, coaching, and general strategy. As a "worker bee" for the WFTDA Games Committee, he serves as a sanctioning representative at tournaments and helps write and edit policies for consumption by WFTDA representatives and member leagues.
Today he is an announcer for the Cincinnati Rollergirls and continues as a freelance training consultant. Caesar is a Derby News Network correspondent and has been recently published in Five On Five Magazine. Caesar hopes to return to coaching derby "full time" after he completes his Ph.D. in entomology.
Contact Caesar at coach.caesar@gmail.com. He currently maintains a general coaching and leadership advice twitter account (http://twitter.com/coachcaesar) and a YouTube page with various training related clips compiled (http://www.youtube.com/user/coachcaesar2009).
Coach Estro
Estro Jen is a jammer for the Angel City Derby Girls, as well as coach of the newly formed Long Beach Roller Derby. With almost five years of derby and twenty years of skating experience, she has been coaching private camps for leagues and larger camps like Blood & Thunder, RollerCon and Derby Dolls for the past four years. As a host of Roller Derby Workout Video and owner of local L.A. based skate shop, Moxi Roller Skates, Estro covers skate maintenance, product knowledge, nutrition, and derby cross-training in addition to her derby and skating instruction.
Coach Pauly
Coach Pauly AKA. "Pauly the Water Boy"
Former Head Coach/ Head Ref
Managing Owner/Partner of AZRD
For 5+ years
Former Member of the WFTDA" Gang of 9 "Rules Committee.
Coaching contributor for "five on Five" Magazine.
Real Name: Paul S. Perez
Email: Derbywhisperer@gmail.com
Website: www.CoachPauly.com
Qualifications:
- 5 + years derby knowledge
- 5 + years coaching AZRD and guest-coaching 29+ leagues in the US, Canada and New Zealand.
- Coached the AZRD's Tent City Terrors to a 3rd place national ranking in 2006.
- Coached AZRD's Tent City Terrors in two Dust Devil tourneys and many inter-league bouts
- Coached at the 2008 and 2009 Blood and Thunder Magazine's National Training Camps in San Diego.
- Coached at the 2009 Blood and Thunder Magazines New Zealand National Training Camp in New Plymouth NZ.
- 4 years ref \ rules knowledge and experience. including Roller Con 05, 06 and 07 scrimmages and WFTDA regulation bouts
- Former Member of the WFTDA Gang of 9 rules committee
- Led ref and On Skates training seminars for Roller Con 06, 07, 08 and 09.
- Referee at Roller Con 05,06 and 07 both challenge bouts as well as the scrimmages at the banks.
- Total years coaching roller derby 5 + years
- CPR/First Aid certified in accordance with WFTDA insurance requirements.
- High School Varsity Football 2 years
- Baseball: Chandler Youth Baseball 2 years
- Wrestling: Junior High School 1 year
- Strength Trainer, High School female Athletics
Coach Smarty
Smarty Pants started skating with the TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls of Austin, Texas in May of 2003. Over the past seven years, she has skated for her home team the Holy Rollers, TXRD's travel team the All Scar Army, and the fantastic Vagine Regime. Smarty's day job is coaching rowing on Town Lake in Austin. She started applying what she knows about coaching to derby in 2004 when she traveled to NYC to train the newly formed Gotham Girls. She has since trained various leagues across the U.S. and several leagues in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Smarty uses sport theory and common sense to teach derby strategy. When training skater skills such as agility, speed, transitions, and stance, she prefers to focus on the intricacies of each skater's unique style. As a trainer she is sensitive to the needs of the athlete and well aware of the process of learning. She takes the sport of derby very seriously and holds much respect for its growth, yet tries to create a relaxed and humorous learning environment.
Coach Ziv
Ziv Kruger has been watching derby since March 2005 and coaching since August 2007. He's coached on the Alamo City, Oklahoma City Victory Dolls, Brewcity Bruisers, and No Coast benches, and run practices in San Antonio, TX, Dallas, TX, Houston, TX, Tyler, TX, Oklahoma City, OK, Tulsa, OK, Madison, WI, Milwaukee, WI, and Lincoln, NE.
Ziv's greatest flat track coaching accomplishments to date include helping BrewCity in their meteoric rise over the past season and a half, and helping No Coast ensure that they'll be invited to the South Central Regional tournament they're hosting in Lincoln, NE this season.
Ziv attended some of the first interleague bouts in flat track history with the Texas Rollergirls, as well as Dust Devils 2006 and 2007 in Tucson, AZ, Bumberbout (the first invitational tournament) 2007 in Seattle, WA, Governor's Cups 2008, 2009, and 2010, (in Houston, Dallas, and Austin, respectively), WFTDA Nationals 2007 in Austin, TX, Western Regionals 2008 in Houston, TX, Eastern Regionals 2007 in Columbus, OH, Eastern Regionals 2008 in Madison, WI, Eastern Regionals 2009 in Raleigh, NC, South-Central Regionals 2009 in Atlanta, GA, "Queen of the Hive 2009" in Ft. Worth, TX, "Clover Cup" in Ft. Worth, TX, "BrewHaHa" 2010 in Milwaukee, WI.
As official photographer for TXRG, ACRG, ACD, HRD, DDD, KCRW, MRD, OKVD, and BCB, Ziv has covered flat track roller derby in 25 cities in the USA and has helped flat track derby get exposure in The Austin Chronicle, MSNBC.com, The Dallas Morning News, The Kansas City Star, The San Antonio Current, Blood & Thunder Magazine, USARS magazine, and most recently in Austin Monthly Magazine and Colorado View Magazine.
Ziv can be contacted directly at: SoundCounsel@yahoo.com, as well as on facebook (Ziv Kruger), flickr.com (Zeeev), or MySpace (Zeeev)
