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i had so much fun last night, I attended the adult skills clinic at our local rink. It was a great group of guys and the dudes that put it on did a really good job. There were two other goalies out there, one of which had only been on the ice as goalie for 7 times, the other was a gal with about a year of experience. Having one extra goalie was cool because it allowed me to take breaks during the various drills we did. I felt so much better than I did at sticktime on saturday. My stamina was better, I was receiving instruction and I even took one shot square in the juevos! (one off the mask too). We did various 2 on 0 drills and it was fun tracking the puck and then doing a very half-assed butterfly slide across the crease to make some saves! I cant wait until next mondays clinic! In the meantime I will continue my stretching routines.

i do have a go pro. i should try that one time at a stick time.

thanks badger! one of my goalie buddies is going to come out to a stick time with me and work with me. those drills sound fun and essential to learning the fundamentals of the position. i like the video of yourself idea as well. nothing like seeing what you actually look like vs what you think you look like!

This was my first time in all my pads on the ice. I tried everything on at home, but pretty much was just standing in place. I wanted to do a public skate with my goalie skates before I geared up for a stick time but that didnt happen. We are doing a public session Sunday, so that will be more time in the skates. It did feel a bit awkward at first today, but only when skating and turning. The longer flat portiin of blade on the ice was certainly noticeable. I was just so relieved that I didnt experience any foot pain in the skates. I mades sure not to crank the laces down too hard and that worked out great. I was trying to do some basic goalie drills on my own, but without have someone there to watch and correct my technique, I kind of gave up on them. Also, it got kind of old just having people coming in an essentialy doing breakaway attempts on me. After awhile if they didnt shoot from the top of the circles I just let them do their thing and didnt flinch. I wanted to try to work on covering the posts and have people shoot from different angles, but that disnt really happen either. It was a fun first experience and I cant wait to get some instruction come Monday night.

well i survived my first stick time as tendy. it was fun, it was exhausting. i felt a bit dehydrated out there so i made sure to drink plenty of water every so often. there was another goalie out there, a high school kid who was legit! this was pretty much free for all and we did a lil cross ice 3 on 3. so i got some taste of trying to see the puck through traffic! i felt awkward, bulky and silly at times but i did make some saves when people were taking shots from outside. i stopped a few deke attempts but towards the end, i was too beat to go down to try to make a save. i was trying to concentrate on my angles, and telescoping. i did make saves with each piece of equipment, so it was cool to see how they all felt when being hit with a puck. my right arm was also feeling very fatigued towards the end of the session. this was my first time wearing my goalie skates on the oce and they felt great, no pain at all! (graf goaler elite) monday nights clinic should be exhausting as well but at least there will be a goalie coach out there to offer up instruction.

alright fellas, gear has been acquired! I'm going sunday afternoon to a public skate to break in my new goalie skates and plan to do the monday night adult skills clinic!

Thanks fellas! That is the plan. My buddy is a manager at Goalie Monkey so I am going to go visit him soon to get sized up for stuff. Just been researching like crazy for the past few days. I was already having minor panic attacks about my first start in adult league as a goalie, lol!

I'm thinking about making the switch to goal. My only experience on ice was many years ago when I played Bantams, but that was temporary until we got a full time goalie. Thanks for all of the great info in this thread!

It is 74 degrees in SoCal today, I wish we had an actual winter! (probably won't get much sympathy, lol)

Same here, I want to try on the shins, elbows and shoulders!

A couple from this past Saturday night's pick-up game. (black jersey, white helmet)

me in the orange.

I wouldn't mind checking out a custom insole for my Ultra G5's, I'm just using the standard "anatomical" one.

i picked up a pair of 2011 Graf G5's with some of my tax return. i've only worn them 4 times so far and do like the forward lean they provide. im thinking of switching to normal bauer laces though.

nevermind.