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It may be worth bringing up doing the build your own stick thing a lot of direct sales smaller companies offer. If you were selling a truely top tier customizable stick for under $200 I have a feeling I would be seeing them all over. A Surgeon with a P38 like blade and a lie 4.5. Sick!!!! Call up your boys, let's do this.

STX is a very established lacrosse brand. They have a reputation in the industry. Base is cool but their brand is not similar to STX. I do love their site though.

You would think selling direct they could offer more curves because they don't have to produce massive amounts of rach curve. Maybe a consideration for future generations. As much as a lot of what STX is doing feels weird, it could turn out pretty sweet too. We all love going to the LHS and I hate when they struggle, but at the same time more direct sales could totally change how gear is bought. Maybe when you go to buy a stick you could have a ton of patterns and lie's to choose from. Or custom fitting more gear than just skates. Or even just simply lower cost.

Because they made you experience Baltimore or because they are selling direct?

The RX2 kick point was the shit IMO. Truely variable. I would be super excited to see what has changed on the RX3 but no X9 curve. We will see what the deal is with custom sticks but I would say it is very unlikely I purchase any more STX sticks. I still have one in each price point of the RX2 though so I really don't need one anyway.

There was a discussion on another site a few months back where someone was talking about the astounding asking price of getting one of those guys to mention a new sock they were producing. I am sure STX can pay it and I am equally sure it will pay off. The thing is that they sold a lot of RX2 sticks by people just picking them up in the store. There's now I got my first one. I picked it up and went 'oh wow'. The new pricing helps quite a bit but we all know hockey players are weird about new stuff. So they will want in depth videos. As an aside, does anyone know if the PureGrip shaft has ever been used in the NHL? I have watched several different rounds of clips of guys with RX2s and all the NHL guys seem to be using normal dimensions.

Yeah. They're going to need to find reputable folks to give sticks out to for the sake of videos. I know Coach Jeremy and Pavel Barber charge like a trillion dollars just to mention a product but I am sure it pays off.

Well, there are sure to be a ton of questions about that. So yes, please, details!

X9. X9 X9 X9. Where is it? That's literally the most important question.

Even their low end stuff if pretty good. I use my RX2.2 when things get chippy at drop in and it's a totally decent stick. I got it for $100. If the cheaper 3.2 is the same quality, that is a massive steal.

https://www.stx.com/hockey/gear/surgeon Looks very nice.

Oh man. Prepare for the anti-True crowd to bombard you for drinking to kool-aid.

He's kind of politely telling you its obvious you're ruining a thread for whatever gratification it is you get from making comments that rile people up.

Is there an option anywhere for a shallow mid curve? Like. PM9 but with the depth more in the middle of the blade? I would be very interested in that.

I was skipping the 5th eyelet and then using the 3rd and 4th laces to do a "lace lock" or "heel lock". I forget what its called. For a while I was also skipping the 7th eyelet. But I yesterday I just did a standard lace up. I waited until my feet got to hurting bad and then backed off the tightnesss and they felt perfect

I had a similar issue I'm my 68ks. My solution was a combination of goofing around with how I tie my skate and also re-tying my skates after I have had them on for 5-10 minutes. I'm not sure why but tying too tight and then backing off later seems to work for me.