BenBreeg

If you want the thinnest socks, don’t spend a lot. Champro that you can get at Epic Sports are like $3-4/pair. We have a ton. They are as thin as you can get, basically slightly thicker than panty hose and comparable to liner socks that have been mentioned. https://m.epicsports.com/baseball/p/125179/index.html I went through all kinds trying to find what I wanted.

Very cool! I had Vapor 8s for a very brief time. Their vice-like grip on my forefoot put an end to that. I always liked the 10s design better.

We use Howies laces which are the “puffy” style. Thicker than the slippery nylon type ones that come with CCMs. I find they have enough friction through the eyelets to let me tighten 2-3 eyelets to get good heel lock and leave the rest barely snug.

I still work out. Advil will help with pain but doesn’t prevent the I do backwards and forwards sled dragging, single leg movements like step ups, rear elevated split squats, curtsy squats, some other single leg squat variations. Lots of side planks, banded side walks as well.

I see a lot of kids on the ice, 90% of them are in mid level skates. Some below. I have never seen a kid skate and attributed any shortcoming to their skates. i do see a lot of kids with no ability to get on their outside edges on get any kind of forward shin angle. They have their skates cranked and it’s like from the knee down they are an action figure, the ankle doesn’t move. my son is almost 13, a good skater, and is in the age where kids are enamored by high end sticks and skates. I could afford it but I won’t buy him top end skates.

Wow, that’s crazy! Nice job, it’s been a great place to learn!

Yeah, I understand that, how they state it in the chart was a little weird. The pivot point would be -20mm which would cause the forward pitch but they label the column pitch and the value is actually the pivot point adjustment.

Quick clarification. In the chart, does -20mm mean the pivot point is moved back 20mm which would translate to forward pitch?

Likely over time sales numbers showed low demand for non-grip sticks and they went away.

To add, if after skating for a while all you feel is off is the pitch, you can get a shim put in for cheaper than profiling and if it isn’t the issue it’s easily reversible. Getting profile recommendations on the internet, even from knowledgeable people who have never seen you skate isn’t a high percentage endeavor.

Like has been pointed out, at this point it’s not really about tech, it’s about a company trying take over share in a relatively fixed size market. And when you look at the TAM/SAM/SOM, there’s probably not a lot of room there. The video said CCM came in and basically forced them out of some markets. It’s a huge uphill battle, probably more akin to scaling a cliff face under fire.

Yeah, I stopped watching Hockey Tutorials years ago.

I am tempted to pick up a pair. I lusted after them. There was a custom Graf thread here years ago, I wanted a pair so bad.

I aM considering a manual one as well, maybe I am a nerd but I like the thought of everything that goes into doing it right. Was in Johnstown last week and stopped by the shop where Dana Heinze sharpens. Nobody was there and he spent like 45 minutes talking to us about sharpening and the Pens. I kind of nerded out. I love that stuff. I guess it’s between Wissota and Blademaster? What about the EZ Sharp machine? I don’t hear that mentioned much.

Pretty sure my Tackla girdle is a tall but doing a quick search I don’t see it. Maybe they stopped offering it?

I like the matte black, haven’t see the other colors other than that pic.

Clunky but not unusual for early gen products. The more people pursue different solutions the better. Would love to see the protocol they used to get to their numbers.

I looked at my foot last night and my tongue on the foot that pronates twists slightly out, but that is also due in part to my high instep and lack of volume there. Yours look better in that respect than mine but I also wonder, if you feel good with two pairs of socks, maybe the skate is too big? I can’t imagine having that much “padding”.

Just to add, I have those same skates. My first pair I was a little too aggressive on sizing. Got 9s for about an 11 1/2 foot. I experienced some irritation on my ankle bone because it was too far forward in the ankle pocket. Ribcores are not real deep and don’t wrap much. Moving to a 9 1/2 solved the ankle issue.

Agree, Chinese factories are capable of producing high quality products, if you spec it and pay for it. A previous company I worked for made Class 2 medical devices there. We had to be heavy on our oversight, but the product was obviously up to spec. But you aren’t getting that quality for some cheaper price just because someone hooked you up…

Is your learn to play one of the nhl ones? They give head to toe equipment.

This. In about 30 seconds it will expose any kind of misalignment in your skating posture that might have been covered up by the stiffness of the skate. The great thing is, it essentially forces you to fix it very quickly otherwise you can’t even skate. The it is up to you to build that new alignment into something consistent. i just went completely untied, never even bothered dropping laces gradually.

Curious how much data a retail location has or is provided for stocking. My assumption is a lot although many companies have data and don’t know how to use it, but this should be pretty trivial. Our local Pure which serves all or northern Pittsburgh has an interesting stock of sticks. I would say 60-70% are senior, 70-80% are top line models, essentially no 3rd tiers (like maybe one or two lines might have a handful), 70% righty, and almost nothing other than the obligatory rack of youth Jetspeeds in 40 or lower (so no junior 40 flex which is kind of a sweet spot for 10u to even slight 14u players). And almost all P92 and P28, which does make sense. This is just my eye test but when we go in just for fun and my lefty 12u 85 pounder wants to look at sticks, it’s a pretty short endeavor. Rink pro shops seemed to be better geared toward the youth demographic, which makes sense for them but still, surprising for Pure. I haven’t been to the one south of the city since they took over a really big private store which used to have about double the stock of everything.

Find the spot on your foot that hurts, put lipstick on it fairly heavy, then put the boot on and lace it up. It will transfer to the liner and you know where to punch. I do my son’s Bauers and he never has anything more than mid tier.

Looks like the same pant tackle has had forever. I have them, I would say they are more old school fit, loose and kind of boxy.