BenBreeg

I know it has been said before but maybe you need to get out of beer league. I play pickup a few times a week and they are good skates where people work hard and hustle but nobody is trying to win the Cup. Me and a buddy signed up for an adult skills class. I have neen playing since I was a kid but took some time off and while most of the guys there are beginners, it is still fun because when do you get to go and do 1 1/2 hours of drills with other players? And to top it off, I didnt know it when I signed up, it is run by probably the best skating coach in the area. What about splurging for some private lessons with a local goalie coach or organizing a weekly invite-only pick-up game? For me at this point I realize that at 45 I cant go like the 20 year olds but I am still I good physical shape and can move ok. I want to take advantage of that so that I don't think at 55 or 60, “I wish I hadn’t wasted the past 15 years sitting on the couch.” Just another thought for you. Having blowups on the ice isnt healthy but it is probably more the circumstances than the sport.

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I can’t imagine what it is like to go through something like this but I’m pulling for you as I’m sure everyone around here is. John

It is certainly feasible that a helmet could change the dynamics of how an external force is transferred to the head and thus how the skull interacts with the brain, it seems those differences might be more a mathematical exercise and have little overall effect. I have worked in medical device product development for almost 20 years. Even there clinical trial results can be so borderline that many intelligent people can draw different conclusions. And by intelligent people I don’t mean the media.

This is my motivation. Between getting stuck the last two weeks not being able to get to the shop to get my skates done and getting there and finding out it is closed at 6 on a Saturday, I'm sold on the convenience aspect.

It depends on the type of activity. In a lot of cases the better players are going to dominate and the "C" players really won't be participating. This can be frustrating for them and really doesn't help them develop. You want to create scenarios where kids can have success.

Saw him about 10 years ago, great show! RIP

Never! No Ernest Borgnine, no Airwolf!

I was actually wondering about JMV the other day. I thought he had passed already. Pretty tragic life. I was a child of the 80s and Airwolf was one of my favorite shows. It, along with others from that era, had the best theme songs.

The thought is that 1) today's skates aren't as easy to modify like old leather ones were (and the shoemaker has since passed away) 2) with a better fit the padding wouldn't be necessary 3) I think the CCM customs have options for additional padding I would also love to have a bigger toe cap, my pinkie toe is always numb even after just an hour on the ice

Can you get Ribcore customs too? He only mentions Tacks and Jetspeeds. I am considering customs for too reasons. One, I am old and haven’t had new skates in like 20 years, so it is splurge buy. Two, i have boney feet and my pair now has all kind of extra padding inserted by a shoemaker who used to work on skates because skates always had hot spots poked me and killed my feet. Thinking customs would allow for batter molding and also adding extra padding.

By player vs. player I mean any drill that would have them competing, such as small area type games, 2-2, Ringette, etc.

The Luke Perry one gets me. I hated 90210 but he was only 52. That kind of thing always reminds me not to take things for granted.

My current pet peeve is that while it makes sense if they don’t want to get in the youth market, their junior sizes only have M and L, no smalls for elbow pads or shoulder pads. I would like to try the elbow pads for my son. Every pair he has irritates him, for some reason he is super sensitive about this. Maybe the 3pc sleeve design would help.

I am not actually sure about that.

Does the code still work if you got it? I had it and planned onbuying shins and elbow pads but got laid off for the last three months so everything went on hold. The STX rep here seems to have gone MIA, I PMd him and havent heard back.

Yeah I realize what it is referring to, but it is a pet peeve, nothing major. I would just use the term excess space. I remember being "corrected" by other engineers for using the term negative pressure once, that is what brought it up.

I just threw our some old blades, one was a Shanahan, toe with straight face and square toe. That was from ages ago...

The thing about lots of details and subtlty to designs is at th actual viewing distance all that is lost and it can look worse. To me that is why plain patterns work best. I don’t like the gradient, it can become dated too quickly.

I actually just found my 9000s when i was cleaning out a closet yesterday. When I bought them they were the only thing i could find in a tall. Probably going to switch from my Tackla girdle back to pants.

The old stuff is great design-wise. Nexus gloves and other 4 roll styles havent chamged a whole lot from the old Cooper BDP Pro style.

Wow, that was the old design when I was a kid! Nice! There some new BDP Pros I am tempted to grab right now, love the old stuff.

I just got back into playing this past year so I am getting back into the gear side a bit just because my stuff is old and kind of nasty. I still like browsing gear but not like when i was a kid where i always knew where the Great Skate, Ocean, and Kemps catalogs were in my house 24/7. Now it seems like a gear race with manufacturers constantly releasing new models with probably very minimal benefits. That actually gets boring to me compared when a new skate model was kind of a big deal.

Stadium jerseys are hideous. But I am apparently the only person who likes the Jets thirds. In fact, i am getting a t-shirt with the logo. Simple design with a script to me is always classy.

The trm “negative space” refering to skates. So many rip on marketing jargon then use this term to sound knowledgeable. So, is negative space actually a pressure point? If not, then it is just excess space...