Aloha City Rollers is a flat track roller derby league which promotes the sport of roller derby to women and men on the island of Oahu in Hawaii.

 
Photo from our 2013 Season Opener Bout on March 16

Roller Derby is a full contact sport on quad roller skates requiring participants to train hard in order to be well skilled. This is not the WWF style show that was televised in the 70's and 80. There is no fighting, clothes- lining, punching, tripping, or blocking to the head. Players use hip checks, shoulder hits, and positional body blocking to impede or take out their opponents.

This is not mindless violence, there is a lot of strategy that goes into playing.
These are real athletes that work hard to be good at what they do!

Roller Derby is a sport for people of all walks of life and all body types.
There are lots of ways to be involved in our league:
skating players, skating referees, non skating officials, bout production, and sponsors. 

 
Senator Mike Gabbard & Kapolei Chamber of Commerce President Attilio Leonardi support Aloha City Rollers!

If this sounds interesting to you then come roll with us!

Aloha City Rollers roller derby league founder, head coach, referee, manager and leader Mike Crinella, aka Handsome, was struck with a catastrophic illness on 3/18/13. He was rushed to the hospital when his esophagus burst causing a massive infection in his chest due to a very rare condition called Boerhaaves Syndrome. He has endured 7 major surgeries several surgeries to install chest drainage tubes, to repair his esophagus, to remove some of the infection and to install a feeding tube into his stomach and intestine. He has also had 12 minor surgeries as well. He was finally discharged from the hospital after 61 days to continue his recovery at home. He still has a hole in his esophagus, a chest drainage tube and is receiving nurishment only through a stomach feeding tube. He is otherwise "stable" so he was allowed to go home where he will be   continuing his recovery at home for an additional 3-4 months. The doctors say it will take about 6 months and many months of physical therapy of his body and lungs for Handsome to fully recover from this unexpected and rare illness. Handsome will be out of work and off his skates for many months.

Handsome has been trying trying to keep a positive attitude. He is known by all who know him to have a grasshopper mentality and keep moving forward (grasshoppers can only move forward, they can not move backwards). Handsome has been involved in roller derby for 6 years. He has trained and inspired nearly a thousand skaters in his derby career and had a positive impact on many more people's life both on and off the track. Aloha City Rollers has set up a Handsome Recovery Fund to assist Handsome with his medical and living expenses while he recovers. Any size donation is very helpful and greatly appreciated. Donations can be made at www.gofundme.com/2erbt4