BenBreeg

You'll be a hit at ModSquadGrammarPolice.com.

Dude, just drop it. You are obviously thin-skinned and get all bent out of shape when people challenge your arguments.

Who is using the last 8mm of steel and what are they using it for? You would be almost vertical. I always thought of Katy Jo as good at marketing. Maybe it's lost in translation but a couple of her ideas seem a bit off- no pushing to the side, stopping on the flats of your blade vs. your edges. There are plenty of successful high level skating coaches with figure skating backgrounds.

Crazy, it's almost like I saw this verbatim on Reddit...

This. Aside from the fact most people don't know what profiling is, the data and expertise to match profiles to players is not there.

But a decent % considering how many posters are in this thread.

I am fine, but when I think about it, Pure switched to Sparx probably because the kids couldn't even sharpen. I never would take our skates to Pure, I don't trust that they are going to be able to teach the teenage staff enough to be helpful.

Which is great but I think ProSharp's go to market has sucked. For every one of you, there are probably 10 guys "doing" profiles without any real knowledge or ability to help people figure out what might work for them. And that number is probably low, likely more like 50.

It helps if you have a bunch of money and time to experiment with profiles. Until they figure out a way to quickly dial in and recommend profiles, it's just a revenue generator and not benefitting the general playing population.

My single complaint with my PR pack is the hooks they use for the straps that hold the skates in. This one has the slide in clips which I think make much more sense.

We have settled on these: https://baseball.epicsports.com/prod/125179/champro-featherweight-tube-style-socks-pair.html They are as thin or thinner than dress socks, come up over your calf, and just over $3/pair (or just over $2/pair if you buy by the dozen). They last a long time. We tried Thinees. For me they were too short, I like over the calf. My son wore them a bit longer but they are expensive, not as thin as other options, and piled a lot.

Yeah, the rating might stay the same because they have a standardized testing protocol that tests within the length of the stick. But cutting it down changes the actual flex performance.

This topic comes up all the time. It's not all that complicated. It's going to be harder to bend something with the same physical properties if you cut it shorter. The "flex rating" of the object doesn't change if they are measuring from set points, but you aren't holding the stick at set points. You are holding it at the butt end and the other point is the blade on the ice. If you cut it, the two points are closer together.

We don't disagree. As you said, the margin for error is greater, and I said it is easier to moderate the force, two sides of the same coin. But just the act of pulling up or pulling across itself doesn't create or reduce the force.

Tension is tension, if you pull outward, you aren't putting force on that eyelet, but you are pulling on the one below it. Maybe easier to moderate the force, but that would be it.

So the biggest thing I like about my Quad 0 is the asymmetrical profile, the flatter rear and smaller radius front. So wouldn't a key decider between these be symmetrical vs. asymmetrical? I don't really care about the argument of continuous blending, the quads have easements, you don't pop from one section to the other.

I know what you are talking about. There was a shoe repair guy in a Pittsburgh, Bucky Palermo that did that for the Pens. I remember Makita’s book talking about reinforcement built into the skate, like wire mesh like a window screen between the layers of leather, although it’s been years since I looked at it and I could totally be remembering wrong. The book might still be at my parents.

That's because out to in and in to out are the same lacing pattern, just in reverse order. They apply pressure the same way, half the lace is going over the facing, half is going under.

My dad had skates like those, they are awesome. I had one hockey book growing up, by Stan Mikita, loved reading about the equipment. He described how they used to break them in and how higher end skates had some mesh or something up the back of the skate for support.

Good info because I also assumed that Fits 1, 2, and 3 generally correlated to Vapor, Supreme, and Nexus.

Well, If Sparx considers the above scenario a valid use case, maybe it should have been accounted for in the design.

I'm 48 and have been lifting and working out I guess since HS sports. There are a few things I do differently now, based on all kinds of sources, Joe DeFranco has some things, some of it is just knowledge and common sense. I have a lot of chronic issues at this point: nerve impingement, lower back issues, as well as random stuff that just shows up and goes away. I'm probably at 80% what I was in my late 20s/early 30s for the most part. 1) My warm-up is much longer than it ever was, at least 10 mins on the treadmill, a general dynamic warm-up, then slowly working up for the first set. I don't lift a working set for probably 1/2 hour after getting into the gym. 2) I don't do 1 rep max any more. My heavy lift is 3-5 reps. 3) Learn to work around injuries. You can't just rest completely. First, you are always having little aches and pains, so you might be off more than on. Second, activity helps healing. 4) I do trap bar deadlifts, single leg work exclusively. I don't do squats right now as I work through my back issues. Sled drags and prowler pushes as well. This isn't only for older people, lots of transition to the TBDL even for younger athletes. WAY easier to teach and pretty much the same effect (Jim Wendler tested this with his HS football players). You can do the same thing you like, just understand how each component affects you. Sleep is really important. My sleep pattern stinks, and it kills me. I wake up almost every night at 3 am, it's weird, and am up for an hour or two, then get up at 5:30. The days I get a full night's sleep are so much better.

Yes sir, I am over it because you have deemed it not worthy of discussion. It was a question, get off your high horse.

Was there today, here are the pics of the top edges of the boot opening.

I can try to explain it, and I only saw the Pro and the SVH. From what I remember, the inside liner of the Pro came up and was folded back down, with the edge rolled back and "sandwiched" in the layers, creating a rolled edge. The SVH simply had all layers together with all their edges exposed. You could only see it when you looked down on the skate. If I get back to the store I'll take pics. Zoom in on the top skate second image and you can see the rolled edge: https://sidelineswap.com/gear/hockey/skates/5116182-true-catalyst-pro-size-7-5-skates