When I first first first started playing derby, my helmet was the usual mishmash of stickers and whatnot.
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| Helmet 1.0 |
At some point I decided that I wanted to have a crown painted on my helmet, so I asked one of my teammates to do it for me.
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| Helmet 1.1 |
I liked having such a distinct helmet because it was easy to find myself in pictures. (It also worried me when the occasional "hey we should all have matching helmets because that would look fierce" conversations would bubble up, because MY HELMET IS MY THANG.)
Anyway, I wore that helmet for two seasons. (During Season #2, another teammate glued little jewels to the points on the crown, to make it bling.)
Between Season #2 and Season #3, I decided to get a new helmet, which required a new crown. I had another teammate do it up for me. This one was much more bling-y.
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| Helmet 2.0 |
At the end of Season #3, I realized that the lining from my helmet had come completely unglued from the shell of the helmet. YIPES! TIME FOR A NEW HELMET!
Since I didn't have a spare helmet to wear while waiting for someone to paint a crown on my helmet, I took matters into my own hands.
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| Helmet 3.0 |
Because of my knee injury, I didn't skate much at the start of the season and probably could've had someone paint my helmet fairly early on, but I didn't. My helmet looked like this pretty much until last week when I asked another teammate to paint it for me. (I wore a spare helmet from the gear bin for about a week.)
And here it is!
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| Helmet 3.1 |
I LOVE it. It's stylized, it's simple, it's elegant, there's no jewels to give me helmet cover tumors.
(I also have to include this picture - one of the refs and my teammate (who did Helmet 3.1) were playing Draw Something, and the ref's word was "Queen")
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| This is my Facebook profile picture |
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