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I hear what your saying. The thing is that there's a lot more than just shortening the wheelbase. There's also the spectra if lowering your center of gravity and increasing the stability of your feet and ankles over the wheels. So yeah, you won't get more than 4mm in decreased length, but there are other factors at play that will help increase your agility and quickness with smaller wheels. Obviously this comes at the expense of speed, and this depends on your game and your rink. My old home rink was huge, enough for 5 on 5 roller with still tons of room and lots of time. When we played 4 on 4 tourneys there it was crazy, so much room to skate. The rink I play in since moving away is tiny, even for 4 on 4. I'm planning to drop my sprungs from 80s to 76s,m maybe even 72s.

You can just use smaller wheels... Don't need to size down the frame. IDK, my two cents

You can dremel out that plastic that wraps under the boot. Regarding where to place the frames, they definitely look a bit small, some prefer it that way, I am not one of them, so I can't really offer any useful advice.

Gearologist MD, thank you very much

Nice. I have one teammate here who uses them. He went down one wheel size (ie 80-76, 76-72) on mediums and he says they are super tight turning and lighter and he doesn't miss the speed much. Our rink is fairly small though, so I can get why he'd give up the speed for quickness

Haha I agree with you, but I don't know if MSH is a viable sample of the general hockey population lol. Bunch of old time gear nerds might not be enough of a market for the comeback. Lol.

Look on eBay or sideline... Craigslist, Kijiji if you're in Canada. Used gear shops near you. Praying also helps lol

Are you saying those were a prototype? Look interesting, not sure about durability. Honestly, I have not even gotten around to mounting the R1s yet haha. Was planning on having JR do it but the shop is closed, and I still haven't gotten boots for them either. Anybody have any updates on them? I'm still on sprungs and don't feel like I'm missing anything, so it's more about curiosity for me

Probably cost. I can't say that it is definitely pinpointed to the Inno-Warrior move, as I definitely bought TPS sticks after the Warrior buyout and the TPS came with wooden end plugs. Anyway, I agree with you about feel, I usually need an extension and I always use a wooden one and cut it down. I have a teammate that actually puts in a wooden plug and then cuts it down flush with the top of the shaft, just leaving the tenon in. Claims it helps feel the puck better. Idk, but hockey players are definitely weird

I think he was referring to what I said about it being the same offer as CCM. Agreed though, the value of the True skate lies in is price. A nice return policy is great, but this is a very short window. Gives someone a bit of extra value, but with a lot of states closing play into January, it kinda offsets this value. If someone were really concerned about not liking their skates and needing to return them, CCM is still the best option. So yes, it's still a good offer, but not such a good offer

They're just matching CCM with that offer.

I would definitely agree. Having a coach who explained this to my father and they helped me with this, changed everything in sports for me, but nothing more than hockey. Changed my baseball swing, basketball and football, even swimming, but since hockey tends to be much faster paced and less time stoppage, it's so much more important in hockey. One if the main ways I was helped with this in hockey was through 3 on 3 drills. They were so hectic and confusing at first, nobody knew where to be, but it really trained us to look for opportunities and use our creativity, create space, keep track of everything and learn how to make plays. We just practiced these and other drills so much that it became automatic, and it really helped slow things down for me in actually game situations. My .02

Lot of really good points made in this thread. To me, this sounds like a lot of nerves and internal stuff. Probably a lot of pressure to perform, which creates anxiety, which makes you overthink stuff and essentially the whole game speeds up (mentally) around you and you lose your bearings and have to figure out how to react, rather than just relying on good instincts that are cultivated through practice. The exact details of what is setting off this particular kid, I can't even pretend to know. But the bottom line is that it sounds like at practice when he isn't nervous, he is able to slow the game down and react properly, without feeling out of control. But when it comes to a game, the nerves get to him and he can't find a way to slow down the game in his head, so he is just afraid to touch the puck and to make a mistake etc. Sounds like you just need to figure out how to get the pressure off of him (or better, how to help him realize that everything's alright and he has nothing to worry about) and help him slow the game down, which will help him fall back on his skills and familiarity with game situations from practice. One way to do this is practicing 3-on-3s, where it's really out of control and he will have to learn to focus his mind and get the game under control mentally in order to manage that type of play. Another is to teach him how to breath and calm himself down

Tape and toiletry bag for$200. Better be pro stock

Sounds awesome. Good luck, hope I'm still here to see that happen

So far there haven't been any incidents at our rink. They have been forthcoming with info for anyone who asks, but they basically have a play at your own risk approach. The assumption is that everyone knows what's going on and chooses to play. If anyone has concerns and wants more info, they won't hide anything if there is something that people should know about, but they have definitely placed the onus on players to request info

Congrats man. Shame you couldn't get anything going in AZ, but I wish you lots of success in this endeavor

BTW, one advantage of the eagles over something like the 5030s is that they are a bit longer but still similar weight and fit. I'm tall so I chose that over the Sherwoods or other lighter pads

Holy whalers Batman. Those DRs were epic back in the day. The GXs in the color look sick, saw those on sidelinea while ago I think

I love them, very comfortable and light. Pretty traditional fit I would say, they're not super long do of I played a lot of ice I would probably frankenstein some extra protection and maybe different shoulder caps as I had my left shoulder labrum repair about 10 years ago, but they're awesome for my purposes.

Techmesh was in a class of its own. Not sure why, but I hated that material.

Your only real option is the True ax9 shaft or cut down an old ops. A standard shaft is good as it's pretty hard to come by tapered blades these days. I'd say that your options with the True shaft are either the True composite blade or a woodie if you're into that. Comp has better pop, wood has better feel. Agreed. I went back to it recently after many years with comp ops. Mostly because I dug out a bunch of old shafts at the start of covid shutdown and threw in abs blades to play outdoor roller. I looked the feel so I just threw in the wood blades I had when rinks reopened and I'm loving them. I never take slappers and I haven't found the slight loss of speed on my wrister to matter, but the feel and passing are amazing. I play d and carry the puck a lot, so I'm definitely enjoying it.

FT2s. They skipped FT3 on order to keep up with the FT4 stick release. Honestly, I think they look sick, but I would never wear them because that kind of flashy doesn't appeal to me. But I kinda like the look. If I would wear them I'd probably try to paint them black though

Agreed. Want a fan of the blade but the shaft was really nice. Had a few Easton pro wood blades in the basement and I really like the setup. No issues with the 6.0 shaft.

Hey thanks, I looked but didn't see this pic