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Ho-ho-hold tha feck up. Mako gone? Like completely?

Dude, great stop! way to get across! Sounds like you have enough to be happy about and also enough to play in your head for improvement. That's all you can ask for in your first time out. Keep at it!

Got dragged to see the new avengers movie. Bleh.

The new premier chesty looks fantastic. Going up to goalie monkey to try on the non-pro model next weekend. Excited to see how adjustable the arms are.

Added Mako skates. Will get pics up as soon as possible.

Do the new MX3 gloves fit more like the NXG, or more like the old TotalOne? I loved the Supreme line up until they released the NXG and then the fit changed completely.

Going back to player skates I found much harder. And I agree I prefer cloth laces for my goal skates. The gorilla waxed (which aren't really waxed at all...) are perfect.

Are the goal skates really so different for you? Once I'm in the crease I don't even notice them (aside from my ability to sit on my heels to give my toes a rest, which is nice)

That's probably a pretty good watermark, actually. (Then again LG obviously knows what he's talking about so that's no surprise) And yea, that would really suck in a pick-up. Ours is probably about D4/D5 level with some D3 guys mixed in. Luckily the more skilled guys spend most of their time trying to set up the less skilled plays. And theres a shitton of passing, I don't even remember the last end to end rush I saw. One guy cherry-picks but he has no skills so I end up stopping him on his breakaways most of the time anyway. The guys give him shit but he acts like they're joking... I usually disregard goals that were legitimately good (can't complain about not stopping a crossbar-down wrist shot mid-stride....) and then count the rest in my head. If I keep it under 10 in the 90 min session I'm pretty happy with that.

Our organised pickup is definitely not novice despite the name, but hey you just get better that much faster.

I get quite a few 2 on 1 rushes but that's not a bad thing. I try to read the play, whether shot or pass. Otherwise the D isn't too bad for us. The rookie league I'm in, the other goalie had never even put his pads on before. So no big deal there. I wish all rinks had a rookie league... I know it would have been hugely beneficial when I started playing as a skater a couple years ago. Drills for 4 weeks then 12 games, with coaches on the benches.

I dont know if I went into detail on the first few pages of the thread, but basically I bought my pads in.. September? I don't remember exactly. I was told by our captain that our goalie was away for December and I needed to learn. So the first thing I did was a pickup. I did pickup every week in November, and then played a couple league games for my team in December. So maybe it was 4-5 pickup sessions before my first league game. After that, I still did pickup every tuesday and started in a rookie league on thursday nights as a goalie. So I skated out sundays, pickup as a goalie tuesdays and league as a goalie thursdays. Assuming you're talking about a low level division, a month or so of pickups should be enough. You'll probably still be awful (I got lucky that my first game as a goalie was against a really bad team and the guys in front of me played amazingly well and we ended up winning) but who cares.. so is everyone else on the ice at that level.

Sorry man :(

Because it still sucks that I should have had to pay it at all. It could have been $5 and it would still suck that I have to pay for somebody else hitting my car.

After wearing Makos for a couple years now, and therefore being used to zero negative space in the toe cap, I think this makes a lot of sense. May not be for everyone but I know I definitely like not having extra space in there!

Thanks man, definitely planning to get a gopro to stick behind the glass. I have some video my wife shot of me but it's not very good and it's a couple months old at this point. Should still try to get that uploaded though.

Its seriously one of the hardest habits to break. Especially when dropping into the butterfly.

Get that stick down! Seriously though, that's awesome man!

Mexican plate, Mexican driver's license, hell it was a model of Nissan only available in Mexico. And of course he had Mexican insurance which means there is pretty much zero chance of my insurance company collecting. Yet it also doesn't count as an uninsured motorist. Kind of a screwy loophole in the system that ended up costing me. Oh well, it was only $1000 at the end of the day.

If you're not willing to explain it then I'll just have to ignore you. Everything I said was completely factual.

Please explain. I see nothing that is racist about it.

Please explain how it is racist.

Well sure I'd prefer they fix something like flaps... kind of an important feature of a plane ;) Still frustrating that this was my first experience with this airline.

This IS a new plane. Apparently malfunctioning flaps. Only delayed an hour, at least.

God I miss baseball. Well, I played fast pitch but either way. I'd even be happy playing softball at this point.