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It's not the hollow but your muscle control. Your muscles are struggling to control the boot so you get chatter and drift. Just keep practicing those T stops with the stopping foot behind the lead foot. Try just feathering the ice with the stopping foot and a perpendicular blade, this helps to set your muscle memory. As you get more comfortable with the feathering, increase your speed and the attack angle of the blade (edge leading, ankle trailing, your muscles will control the amount of stiffness you need in the ankle). Then start to put more weight into the stopping foot. Your weight is in the center of the blade. Also as you increase the weight into the stopping foot, try lifting the toe of the lead foot, this helps with your shift of weight balance back onto the stopping foot. Once you get this T stop, then you start to move the stopping foot out to the side of the lead foot. As you master this the stopping foot can then move forward until you can eventually stop with it leading. It's all about muscle control and weight distribution, especially the muscle control of the leading foot as you learn to do this. As to the 2 foot stop and outside edge chatter, do the above and once you are able to stop with the stopping foot leading your outside edge chatter will have disappeared. 2 foot stops should be driven by the outside edge, not the inside edge. I loath teaching snow plow stops but its a necessary evil to get someone to stop. Once they have the basic idea of a snow plow I never work with that again, it's always outside edge drills like the one above. Not only does it teach you an outside edge but it also works hard on your one foot balance. It takes much longer to master a 2 foot stop this way but once they get there the technique is far superior to someone who started and continued working with just inside edge stopping drills. Once you get the outside edge, then work on your inside edge for stopping. As to hollow, go with whatever you are comfortable with that suits your style of skating. I doubt anyone can tell you what hollow you should be on without seeing you skate. There is nothing wrong with 9/16" or 5/8", both will work equally well if that is what you are used to.

You had better believe it! A lifetime product is a terrible thing according to many who make products!

The cynic might conclude that the extra cost, and selling price, don’t make up for the longer lifetime and consequent reduced sales.

I’m not missing any point. I was responding to the message I quoted. As far as your weight comment, I’ve used many a 420g carbon stick, some are great, some are shit. You differentiate yourself by being on the former end of that scale.

How is your brand going to differentiate itself from the competition when everybody is selling a 100% carbon 420g stick in the same 3 patterns. I never said you had to deviate from these curves. Those specs just scream cookie cutter made in China. ask the many brands that have failed with this business plan.

One thing is confidence. The chatter is likely from not really putting weight on that edge. At 200 lbs (or pretty much any weight), the blade won’t chatter if you actually have weight on it. Another is make sure that leg isn’t out too far in front of you, it leads to the same problem as my first point. A lot of times I see younger kids really just doing an inside edge stop and the other leg, while in the right position, is kind of just along for the ride and chatters along the ice. Lastly, driving through the ball of your foot more may help.

Interesting read: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359835X14002553?via%3Dihub

Not sure that’s the case with Base who is trying to fill that niche already. If they can manage to remake the CNT Stealth however you can sign me up for a 40 pack.

Both, though more from the loads than anything. Though glass balloons would actually help in the means of abrasion.

What is a nano sprinkle? It sounds delicious and something I would add to a cupcake 😉

I ended up sticking with Lizard Skin (bought a couple new rolls). Skated with the gloves for a pickup, so far so good. I’ll update the thread with a pic after a few more skates with them.

Seen this a hundred times. Sometimes it is the parent living vicariously through their kid or they think their kid will make the show. At higher ages and levels I've seen coaches demand the kids who are not their super stars dedicate all their time to hockey. It really is sad. I've seen to many kids burn out or start to hate the game from parental pressure like this. Most of these parents don't even bother asking what the kids want, it what they want the kids to do. It's not just this sport, it's every sport.

So we have been skating a bit and went to a “pre-tryout” clinic, two days of one hour practices basically at the rink close to us. The guy who runs it is so good with little kids and really focuses on skating. My son is now constantly playing in the driveway. Baseball starts thjs week so we will be transitioning to that a bit more. But the main point of this post was we ran into a kid fron his ADM team at this clinic. This kid is 6 and is very good. But whenever we go somewhere, he is there. Sticktime, he is there. Clinic, etc. He plays in two different ADM orgs, goes to these special skill sessions, works private lessons with Tyler Kennedy, and I am sure other things. At the beginning of our season he was all smiles, by the end, not so much. But what killed me was the conversation between his dad and another parent about how many things they sign their kids up for. One asked, “what do you do when “Bobby” doesn’t want to go to hockey?” “Well, the one night he was crying because he was so tired and had two practices so I told him to just go to practice and kind of take it easy...” This guy is nice but holy *$&#! He is pushing him and I have even mentioned in general a bunch of times to him about not overdoing it. I was just talking in generalities and not about his kid but he just smiles and doesnt get it. 50/50 chance the kid quits by the time he is 10? If he is allowed to quit...

Well, I am a medic and this is about brain injury! Just trying to get people to understand that hydration plays a huge part of it

Helmets protect the skull, nothing protects the brain.