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I did the Readline build (recommended) and selected mid kick. It would have been a dream had it had a softer blade. You know it ain't working when guys on your own team are chirping about it. I tried the VF. Here's my honest take. It's a nice stick, even better if you buy enough to get free shipping. It does however lack that magic that makes the Jetspeed the Jetspeed. Your opinion my differ. I have a buddy who's also a Jetspeed user and he loves his VF. The big turn off for me was the pattern. Their Benn Pro plays like a P92. They offer something closer to the P90TM (BigBenn) but only on customs. As a devoted Jetspeed user, I desperately wanted to like it. I'd give it another try if they start offering the BigBen pattern.

Glad you found a solution. Aquaseal does have a pretty good tack to it. All I’ve every done was use weights or clothes pins well curing, and never had an issue.

Thanks for the reply. That stuff would be a good option especially when attaching the plastic insert over the EPS foam board (same as using a polyurethane adhesive like construction adhesive, gorilla glue etc). It would also work attaching the EPS foam board on the softer neoprene like backing as well (not pictured) but the only issue is that unless the glue has a high tack, I'll need to clamp the softer foam to the eps board which would likely distort the foams after being clamped for x hours. I deliberated over whether I should risk it and use hot melt glue since I've used it on foams before and even though it does melt the foam a bit these pieces are pretty thick and by the time the glue cools down it wouldn't have done much damage. I even thought of using industrial adhesive Velcro on both prices and attach it that way but I didn't want the added bulk the loop and hook would create. But this option would've been the quickest and least tedious option. I figured the best options in attaching the EPS board to the softer neoprene foam are: - 3m super 78 foam adhesive (harder to find in Canada and $$$$) - water based contact cement (again a bit harder to find and more expensive than regular solvent based contact cement) What I ended up using was an OLD can of spray 77 that doesn't contain any acetone like thr newer ones. I tested to see if it was still good and surprisingly it was still good even for a 20 year old can lol. I mean in hindsight the thigh boards aren't going to be undergoing much stress in terms of being peeled and pulled from one another. All forces would be direct impact and the boards will be encapsulated inside the pant shell, so maybe I put way too much thought into this 🫠

Some of them wear cotton liners, lundqvist being one of the more famous examples (He explains it here https://www.tiktok.com/@spittinchiclets/video/7534892352972786958): I used to wear a racquetball glove under my glove, mostly just for some more grip. Like this:

Personally, I've never read/used the reviews on any of the sites like Pure Hockey, Hockey Monkey, Ice Warehouse, etc. I'll watch new gear breakdown videos some of them put out but if I want reviews I'll use google and read them on sites like MSH, S2K, or Reddit because, let's face it, the ones who are capable of giving a meaningful review aren't posting on the store websites, they're posting on sites like this one (and Reddit is a mixed bag, you have to weed through a lot of nonsense but sometimes you get some decent reviews).

They should get rid of them. Retail site stick reviews are super dumb. Just a bunch of people complaining their stick broke.

If we go further than 10 years, my blue and yellow Easton aluminum from the mid-90's. The thing was like playing with rebar, but it was very cool.

Haha, yes that is a typo. Nice catch. I went back and read thru it and didnt catch it the second time around. Correction, I meant to say the VS (gold stripe) is very supreme like. Whoops