BenBreeg
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Brand loyalty is pretty powerful. Brands themselves, regardless of the product or service portfolio, have dollar figures attached to them. Apple built their brand because they made superior products for many years and led the way in design innovation. They may not be on that level now but it takes a while for that to dissipate. So good on Bauer.
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Might not be a material related to cf. new materials are being developed all the time. Just a matter of when it migrates from one industry to others.
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I am the opposite. I think skates have gotten too gaudy. Love the basic black. We had silver and grey Vapors and Nike’s, they look dated.
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The material may have been invented and not applied in this context. You could have stick blanks and then pattern templates like you have radius templates. Select template, insert blank, close machine and done.
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22 minutes ago, SkateWorksPNW said:If you pay for access to the article you can actually export it in mutiple different formats on your phone. One of those formats allowed is as a PDF.
For your own personal use as pointed out in their terms of service, I am sure posting it on message boards wasn’t what they had in mind.
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Just now, 218hockey said:If you don't want to ever be misinformed I suggest you stay away from the internet.
That isn’t what he said.
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38 minutes ago, SkateWorksPNW said:Why?
You are publishing someone's content in violation of their business model....
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When I was a kid the rinks were about 25-35 minutes away. Those were the two closest to me.
Now with the post-Mario hockey boom there are a lot of rinks. One is 10 mins away but is old and the org is small so we don't do anything except camps there and four others are about 20 minutes away.
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We have a work from home arrangement, nice to not have to use PTO when you are sick. Plus it does keep things from spreading. Of course with my wife working in a school and two kids in school that is cancelled out by all the plagues they bring home...
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Mri’s are expensive and docs have been moving away from just ordering tests in every situation. If it persists go see an orthopod.
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36 minutes ago, Monty22 said:We added a dog to our family two weeks ago. It's been an adjustment to say the least. Up at 4:15 this am as he thought it was time to eat.. First week we were up at 2:30 every day, so I'm hoping there's some additional improvement. The lack of sleep is killing me. Forgot my skates last night- had to play in a pair of rentals a size too small. Good times.
Good luck! We just got one three months ago. He whimpered in the crate the first night but after that nights have been good. Jumping and being mouthy, not so much....
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I have been trying the Pearsox Ultralite and Thinees. The Thinees are soft like cotton but still synthetic. The do pill a bit but doesn’t affect performance
The Pearsox are standard nylon like cheap dress socks. They can feel a little rough but seem to be softening a bit. Their sizing is out of whack though. I am 6’3” with an 11 1/2 foot. The adult size comes halfway up my thigh. I can wear the intermediate but the youth also fits fine. The mite is too big for my son, too much material in the foot for his size 2 1/2 foot so he wears the Thinees.
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4 hours ago, shoot_the_goalie said:It's a moisture resistant, stiff fabric...kinda looks like tightly woven nylon. Not nearly as stiff as the composite materials you see today. Last time I saw it in a retail skate was with the Bauer Nexus 1000.
Oh, so pros can get an older style constructed boot made to look like a modern model?
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Dumb question but what is a tech mesh skate?
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STX Surgeon line is worth a look as well.
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2 hours ago, Vet88 said:Does his 70k skates have 10 or 11 eyelets? Retail version have 10 so if he is skipping the 10th eyelet it means he either has custom facings or it's something like the 50k facing on a 70k frame?
In that pic in caveman’s post his 70ks have 11.
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Another point is that your skating biomechanics encompass your whole body. The alignment of everything from your head to your shoulders, hips and knees plays a huge part in how force is transmitted through the foot into the skate and then the blade to the ice. So the foot is kind of the last part of this chain. With a stiff skate, given perfect biomechanics up to that point allows efficient and controlled energy transfer to the ice, but it doesn’t fix flaws.
The thing the no lace skating gives you in addition to the strengthening already discussed is feedback, magnified responses to adjustments you make as you do drills. Move your knee a little bit, change how you rotate your shoulders, etc.
Here is a related article that references how Miro Heiskanen ties his skates.
Again, once you have all those components, a stiffer boot can ensure nothing is being lost because of the boot, but it is not the cure.
Here is an Athletic article talking mainly about forward flex but also about potential energy leak from lateral sloppiness, although there aren’t any real citations for the work they did, maybe I will Google and see if those are publicly available.
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45 minutes ago, Leif said:It is possible the construction of top end boots has become more sophisticated since Laura Stamm made her comments.
Certainly could be, I just thought it interesting that she brought it up almost 20 years ago.
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Some interesting points, Laura Stamm has an article on her website way back in 2001 cautioning against the general skater getting in too stiff a boot.
As for the pros using stiff skates, getting back to the car analogy- Once you are a great driver you can squeeze every bit of performance out of a 900 HP F1 car but if you or I got in it would be a hinderance to learn the skills of racing and driving. Better skaters like pros have good edge control and can leverage the modern boot.
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55 minutes ago, stick9 said:That's great, you'll have the best form in the senior home. 😉
Before barking at the OP about this that and the other, how about asking him what he's looking to get out of it. Not everyone is training to play the Soviets.
Again, it's the practicality of that route for a player his age. It's entirely possible to skip all that and just have fun.
Great skater or not, we all end up in the same place, local beer leagues. Ask yourself, is all that really worth it.
Yeah, you are right, each has their own goals. But the OP did inquire about the ideal stiffness of skates which I would assume implies that the ideal stiffness would lead to better skating. So the response led to something along the lines of the dominant variable not being the skate but the path to quickest improvement would be concentrating on technique.
Like you said, to each his own. I love breaking things down in anything I do and really getting into the details. Others may not.
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9 hours ago, stick9 said:Look, biomechanics, off ice training, no laces...all that stuff is great. It's definitely something I would steer my young son or daughter to. However, those learning the game at an older age don't have time for that. Frankly, it's all a bit extreme for an older player who just want to lace em up and go for a rip.
For a player in the OP's position, a proper fitting skate that won't hinder his stride should be priority #1.
And while I don't wish to go into here. To say that skate fit and all that is irrelevant is pretty short sighted. Correct your form on crap skates is like racing slicks on a Pirus...
I would say this about the analogy, nobody said crap skates, but the relative minutiae between one good enough pair of skates and another good enough pair of skates isn’t going to matter much to a beginner.
i think the better analogy may be, given a basic vehicle that is good enough, the better driver is going to win the race.
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1 hour ago, Leif said:Vet88: How long per session do you skate without laces, and how many sessions before you get benefit? I can imagine my skates wobbling about, I can’t see how you place the foot down on an edge when the skate is wobbly. Is this useful for all skaters?
From my perspective from someone who does this periodically, you are going to learn something that first lap out. You will get feedback on how you are placing you weight on each skate (good chance it isn’t perfectly equal). You will start to understand better how the different muscles of the foot contribute to controlling the skate and applying pressure within. If you have a specific issue, like turning one way or the other or a certain edge, it will make it worse but you will get magnified feedback on where things are going wrong.
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1 hour ago, caveman27 said:Well, that's an odd approach. What skating or hockey school are you associated with?
What is odd about addressing things fundamentally first?
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Out of curiosity, why not just use more copper rivets as a matter of course? I am sure there is a price difference relative to non-copper rivets but it is a drop in the bucket when compared to high end skate cost.
Bauer vs Step lawsuit
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It isn’t. If the interface that locks the blade in is patented, Bauer has the right to control that. If a car part attaches via a standard interface, it is not controlled by the OEM. A business can use its IP however it wants, that’s the point. It can keep it for itself, license it, sell it, etc. Without IP you lessen the incentive for innovation in many cases.