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Finally made my school's hockey team! This school year as a whole has been better for me as well, I've had good grades and made some new friends. Plus I picked up a QX Pro yesterday and I'm really excited to try it out. Hope everyone else is doing well going into the new year. Edit: The QX Pro is awesome! Going up to 75 flex and switching to a new curve (W05) has been really nice. It feels way easier to pick my spot when I'm shooting and passing.

@strosedefence34 I've gone way further than that and do the tissue technique and crank it to 11 every time I bake my skates. I first take several paper towels and fold them down to stuff between my big toes so the big toes can't be pushed in away from the boot. Then I fold up several more paper towels and tape them from my bunions to the top of my big toes. In all, after the paper towels being compressed between my foot and boot, there has to be at least 3-4mm worth of materials. I've heard of guys at my rink cut up old cloth washcloths and towels to tape to their hot spots prior to baking instead of paper towels and toilet paper so perhaps I'll try that if I have to bake them yet again.

TLDR: Teammate 3d printed a handle for me, it is sweet. I have always used a wooden extension in my stick, for the last couple years as I have become a better skater I have been slowly cutting the extension down. The sweet spot for me seems to be only about a 1/2in extra onto the stick so I build up a knob using half width tape. Cutting down a full 6inch wood extension seems like a waste and adding some extra weight - asked a teammate with a 3d printer "hey can you make this" It came out awesome - I just need to lightly sand down the edges to save the palms of my glove and then toss 1 wrap of tape around it. https://imgur.com/a/P1lsF (sorry for the link, could not figure out where to upload here)

I've already verified with Rob that you can heat the toe box with a heat gun and punch it out.

@smu I think you were trying to quote @CigarScott

There is definitely a change in the resistance/drag across the steel related to the height adjustment. This can easily be verified if you adjust it to the max height just before being too high such that you cause the machine to stall. The first notch below that height will sound like the machine is struggling, the pitch changing the length of the blade and a general 'unsmoothness' to the grinding. Pop it down 2 or 3 notches and it will travel much easier, with a smooth constant pitch. Having it too high causes too much resistance and you can hear it in the pitch changes. Each of the significant pitch changes creates a small 'stop' or skip mark in the steel if you look closely. A smooth pass will have no stop marks. colins

Hey Leif, Sorry for the late response, work has been crazy this week. That's awesome, I'm so glad the 7/16 helped you out. It definitely has some bite to it but again it really helped me out while learning to use those edges. However as you pointed out, It was a little difficult at first because you can really dig in and that can make stopping and transition skills a bit more unforgiving. It sounds like you have really found a good spot and have already made great improvements in your skating my friend. Stay at it and keep us posted on how the season goes!

Howdy, "Quit" is strong, but "take a vacation" is my recommendation. Burnout is a real thing. From what I've seen, you've been going hard at hockey for quite a while with no breaks. Take a planned "palate cleanser" break for a few months and see how you feel. Maybe that break is from teams you're increasingly ambivalent about playing for, maybe its from playing goal, or maybe its away from hockey altogether. Its hard to take a break from hobbies we use to define ourselves. I've done it a couple times in my life and its helped me be happier. One thing I always struggled with was the "who will I be without that?" factor, as well as the "but if I want to do it again in a few months, I'll have given up a bunch of ground by taking a break". For the first one, when I've taken a break I replaced the activity with something I was freshly excited about or just wanted to try out. For me, that's the easy thing as I've usually had something else out there that looks fun but I haven't had time for. That helps with easing myself out of "I'm a <blah hobby> guy", if the new activity starts taking over for me, but its still a bit of a blocker. It doesn't need to be though... You'll still be a hockey guy even if you don't play for 6 months. For the 2nd one... Adult hockey is something that will be there when you're excited about it again. You're not going to miss your window. 🙂 Take some time off and get back going when you come back. Sure, it may not be with the same team or same friends or whatever else, but there will be a new team and new people. But the big thing is... You don't have to fully commit one way or the other. Schedule yourself a 6 month break or something like that. Feel it out. See what you want to do. Mark

Id be embarrassed to play with any of those sticks. PSH is the way to go.

And of course a YouTube video about Lumbr from Hockey Tutorial shows up in my feed... He must have got a free one.

There are plenty of things the NHL does wrong but they honor and remember better than anyone else hands down.

I wish there was an individual thread for “is this garbgage fly by night stick company that no one has ever heard of any good,” rather than making a new thread every 6 months. No, they aren’t. There are a litany of better choices available at the same price or a few dollars more.

Got the job, starting after WF.