Showing posts with label Spirit Animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spirit Animals. Show all posts

Friday, February 5, 2010

Spirit Animals

An email circulated around my team regarding "spirit animals".  Without going into top secret details, I came to the conclusion that my derby spirit animal is the Vulpes vulpes, aka the red fox.  It's not about the colour, I'm not a red head, but there are a few reasons for it.

First of all, they are darn cute:


Also, apparently their eyesight is quite poor and near-sighted, just like mine.  And I like they they are considered "sly" and smart, that suits me just fine, too.  Fast, predatory, opportunistic, hunter- these are all things I want to bring to my derby.  The truth is, I only ever saw a fox once, and it kind of looked like this:

 

Which is how I feel at the end of a bout or scrimmage.  

But honestly, even though I know I'm getting to be a better player, stronger blocker, and much more experienced on the track, I still mostly feel like this:




Also cute, also blind.  Lacking the fierce.