Wrist pads worn by Arthur Chastains III as "Arty Panimal" of the St. Louis Gatekeepers Roller Derby
name: label: user
content: Chastain III, Arthur
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Wrist pads worn by Arthur Chastains III as "Arty Panimal" of the St. Louis Gatekeepers Roller Derby. The two pads are nylon with black, hard plastic pieces at wrist extending into the palm. Black nylon velcro straps with '187 killer' printed in white attach the pad to the wrist. The Gatekeepers were founded in 2009 by two male flat track derby referees who wanted to participate in roller derby beyond being referees. There are now five teams in the men's division, Chastains competed on the 'B' team of the national travel team, the 'Bee Keepers' and on the local team, 'Raiders of Forest Park.'
label: Description (Brief)
content: Modern roller derby began in 2001 after four teams were formed and founded under the Bad Girls Good Women Productions (BGGW) name. In 2002, the flat track derby, Texas Rollergirls was formed from 65 members of the first BGGW teams after a disagreement over management practices caused a permanent split. BGGW took the remaining 15 skaters and became the TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls forming a banked track league. A truly grass roots movement, the flat track derby uses a not-for-profit organizational model with female identifying skaters running the leagues and using their own money to buy rink time, produce tournaments, and print programs, putting any money earned, back into the organization.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: name of sport
content: Roller Derby
label: level of sport
content: Amateur
label: web subject
content: Men
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Sports & Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.0037.04
label: accession number
content: 2018.0037
label: catalog number
content: 2018.0037.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: wrist pads, roller derby
label: Object Name
content: roller derby wrist pads
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: nylon (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: Velcro (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 4 3/4 in x 6 1/2 in; 5.08 cm x 12.065 cm x 16.51 cm