(energetic rock music) - I should be terrified that maybe 2,000 people see me on wheels, but when you're out on the track and the way the lights are you have your team, you have your family out there, all of the rest just fades away, even though it's still amazing, but nothing else compares to it.

My is Itches B Trippin.

I play with The Dagger Dolls.

My name is Diamond Rough and I've been playing roller derby for 10 years.

I'm going into my 11th season with Minnesota RollerGirls.

- Obscene sheen.

I have been playing roller derby for nine seasons.

Well, skating is a family tradition, so I grew up skating at the Roller Garden.

When roller derby came back around in the early 2000s I started coming out there and like oh, you should play roller derby and I'm like, nah, I don't like that type of skating.

And here I am nine seasons later.

So yeah, one year I finally tried out and I've been addicted and loving it ever since.

- Roller derby has become such a huge part of my life that I couldn't imagine living without it.

But I would not trade this for anything in the world because it has helped me become the person that I am.

Something about roller derby that a lot of people might not know is that it's actually a sport.

- It's not staged all.

It's real.

You know, we're skater-owned, skater-operated.

Majority of women.

It's just a great group of women that I'm just inspired by.

Just a wide, diverse range of people, so yeah, just been fulfilling and so on so many different levels, way more than on the track.

- I think a big misconception about roller girls and people who play roller derby is that we're just hard partyin', hard-life livin', not necessarily tough members of society.

But the majority of people here are doing amazing things for their communities.

- Every bout we have a door charity.

We have just a lot of people that reach out to us and we like to give them a chance to come in and share what they do for the community at our bouts and it's just great to have so many different organizations that we can support throughout the season.

- The Minnesota Roller Girls are really proud of the Roy Wilkins Auditorium.

We're very proud to skate here and, you know, be a really successful organization that gives back to the Saint Paul community here.

The thing I love the most about skating at the Roy Wilkins Auditorium is how it looks and feels when you come to a bout.

I have skated in many different arenas in many different cities.

Nothing compares to what it looks and feels like when you come to a bout here.

Other places, there's no fancy lights, there's no fun music, there's no announcers with great outfits.

There's just not this whole vibe.

Locally people probably don't realize that they have one of the best roller derby leagues in the world right down the road, here at the Roy Wilkins Auditorium in downtown Saint Paul, but you can come here and for, you know, slightly more than the cost of a movie you can see some of the best roller derby players in the world play right here.