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And Mitch Stewart, S&C coach, from the Arizona Coyotes Feeds the Cats as well from a dosing standpoint. Mike Boyle believes faster runners are faster skaters, too. For something to have transference to another activity, in this case sprinting to skating, the mechanics don't have to be identical.

You can argue that the venue matters, but I disagree, why does the venue lower the threshold? They are making the claims that their data supports based on their submission. It's the standard all medical devices are held to. Claims are very specific. Anything else must have the stipulations attached. Nobody said the FDA does testing, not sure why you are even bringing that up. They do assess efficacy against your claims as well as safety.

Claims are very, very specific. I read that sentence as relating to the performance aspect. Editing instead of creating more posts: FDA's statement of the DeNovo submission: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-authorizes-marketing-novel-device-help-protect-athletes-brains-during-head-impacts Relevant research summary of the article: The FDA assessed the safety and effectiveness of the Q-Collar through several studies, including a prospective, longitudinal study in the United States with 284 subjects 13 years or older who were participants on a high school football team. During the sports season, 139 athletes wore the Q-Collar and 145 athletes did not. All participants also wore an accelerometer device that measured every impact to the head sustained during play. Each athlete underwent a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan pre-season and post-season. These MRI scans were used to generate Diffusion Tensor Imaging (a specialized MRI image) of the brain that allowed researchers to compare structural changes in the participants’ brain, after a season of play. Significant changes were found in deeper tissues of the brain involved in the transmission of electrical nerve signals (white matter regions) in 106 of the 145 (73%) participants in the no-Collar group, while no significant changes in these regions were found in 107 of the 139 (77%) of the group who wore the Q Collar. These differences appear to indicate protection of the brain associated with device use. No significant adverse events were associated with device use.

You don't judge theories, you test them and assess the evidence vs. the claims. It's how every medical device in existence is cleared.

The step ups would be great, especially if you can move the box to somewhere there is something you can grab onto if needed, like another piece of upright equipment (power rack or similar). Don't underestimate the steady state stuff for overall health, there are some strong guys who advocate lots of walking (for recovery but also for lower back health). And lastly, rotate through those other machines. If they are selectorized vs. plate-loaded that's going to be best I would assume for you. I look at it this way, even if the workouts aren't the ideal you would be able to do with two good wings, the choice between being as active as possible and recovering on the couch is an easy one. I have a bunch of nagging things going on (49 years old) and the one thing my ART guy tells me is "keep moving". Learn to train around things. The worst thing you can do at our age 😄 is just sit still waiting for things to get better.

Did anyone look at their studies or data? Pretty legit people involved in its development both from the medical side and product side. I've worked with one of the developers former companies and they are as legit an NPD company as I have ever worked with, and I have worked with many in both medical device development and non-medical.

Nice! My brother had the CG3 in high school, I had the CG Pro.

https://physiology.utoronto.ca/faculty/joseph-fisher MD

The problem being, and it happens a lot, is that they are trying to be cute and engineery. The only thing that matters to the end user is how much they can actually bend a stick at a given length and how that bend impacts their shot (primarily). People use the word flex. Just because they measure their rating at 1m and claim the flex doesn't change there (a true claim) doesn't really matter, because what we care about is how the stick behaves when the distance between the top hand and the blade on the ice changes- it gets stiffer if you reduce that distance from the original length. Bringing an engineer onto a video is stupid. There is a reason that when I put an engineer in front of a customer there is a very detailed briefing with them before (not a knock on engineers, I used to be one).

Going to build Russian Wedge setup with the ability to adjust the width for my son. I can build it with stuff I have around, so the investment is minimal. He is 11 and just really starting to get into things on his own in the driveway. This way if he wants to do it it is there, otherwise I am not out a lot.

Ignore.

My only confusion is how people get so confused over this, it's about as simple as it gets.

Yeah, but if not for putting way too much thought into equipment minutiae, this place would be a ghost town! 😄

The flex rating doesn't change, but as the engineer said, the "bend" does. When people talk about flex, they are really talking about bend. So yeah, cutting it down doesn't change the flex rating, but it does change how it functions. Too much semantic debate when we all know what people mean.

How much the top of the skate where the comfort edge comes into contact with your leg is more a matter of your anatomy and the construction of the boot. I don't think of leaning on the top of the skate at all, more the side of the boot with my foot I guess.

Not entirely clear what you are asking but: What does, "prop the boot on your calf" mean? Outside edge, forward turns the weight is driven through the back part of the foot, outside edge, backwards you are using more of the forefoot. The ankles need to roll to get on edges, which is why you need some mobility there, not only forward but laterally as well. Figure skating is great for edge work, but also keep in mind their maneuvers are different, and done in a different posture.

You'll be a hit at ModSquadGrammarPolice.com.

Dude, just drop it. You are obviously thin-skinned and get all bent out of shape when people challenge your arguments.

Who is using the last 8mm of steel and what are they using it for? You would be almost vertical. I always thought of Katy Jo as good at marketing. Maybe it's lost in translation but a couple of her ideas seem a bit off- no pushing to the side, stopping on the flats of your blade vs. your edges. There are plenty of successful high level skating coaches with figure skating backgrounds.

Crazy, it's almost like I saw this verbatim on Reddit...

This. Aside from the fact most people don't know what profiling is, the data and expertise to match profiles to players is not there.

But a decent % considering how many posters are in this thread.

I am fine, but when I think about it, Pure switched to Sparx probably because the kids couldn't even sharpen. I never would take our skates to Pure, I don't trust that they are going to be able to teach the teenage staff enough to be helpful.

Which is great but I think ProSharp's go to market has sucked. For every one of you, there are probably 10 guys "doing" profiles without any real knowledge or ability to help people figure out what might work for them. And that number is probably low, likely more like 50.

It helps if you have a bunch of money and time to experiment with profiles. Until they figure out a way to quickly dial in and recommend profiles, it's just a revenue generator and not benefitting the general playing population.